Landscaping hostas to create a wonderful hosta garden!

Creating a Mood:

• Hosta gardens with blue and green can be cool and refreshing.
• Gold hostas feel warm and cheerful.
• Variegated hostas are stimulating.
• Place fragrant hostas near decks, benches, chairs, entrances, and pathways.

Providing Contrast Throughout Your Hosta Garden:

• Landscaping hostas with contrasting sizes next to each other to make hostas look bigger or smaller.
• Keep showy hostas away from each other in your hosta garden so they don't compete.
• Contrast hosta leaf textures with non-hosta plants such as astilbe, fern, ginger, epimediums, and pulmonaria. Use flower color from plants like impatiens to contrast with hosta leaves.

Creating Visual Appeal for your Hosta Landscape:

• Clumps of small hostas can be used to crisply edge a garden, sidewalk, or driveway.
• Hostas in containers can brighten a deck, patio, or garden.
• Use yellows in the front and blue tones which fade into the background to create depth of field.
• Plants in small groups look best when planted in odd numbers. Larger masses can be planted in any number.
• Spring bulbs work well with almost any hosta, and their foliage after blooming can be hidden by hosta leaves that cover dying foliage.
• Generally, the tallest hostas should be placed in the background, but it may create more interest to occasionally place a large hosta in the foreground.

Studies and Statistics

• Landscaping can add between 7 and 15 percent to a home's value. (Source: The Gallup Organization)
• Homes with "excellent" landscaping can expect a sale price about 6 to 7 percent higher than equivalent houses with "good" landscaping, while improving landscaping from "average" to "good" can result in a 4 to 5 percent increase. (Source: Clemson University)
• Landscaping can bring a recovery value of 100 to 200 percent at selling time. Kitchen remodeling brings a 75 to 125 percent recovery rate, bathroom remodeling a 20 to 120 percent recovery rate, and addition of a swimming pool a 20 to 50 percent recovery rate. (Source: Money)
• In one study, 99% of real estate appraisers concurred that landscaping enhances the sales appeal of real estate. (Source: Trendnomics, National Gardening Association)

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