Why Grow Hostas?

Hostas are the number-one selling perennial in North America for good reason! Some hosta benefits are:

• Solves garden problems:
  
  H. 'Sagae'
  • Have a wide variety of shapes, colors, textures, and sizes.
  • Do best in partial shade.
  • May have fragrant, stunning blooms.
• Hardy:
  • Grow in a variety of light, soil, and moisture conditions.
  • Ideal where snow removal is necessary.
  • Do well in containers and rock gardens.
  • Can survive floods to droughts.
  • Can be placed in water for 1-2 weeks.
• Versatile:
  • Looks great in stand-alone species clumps, broad landscape, edging, or around a tree.
  • Creates ground cover to soften walls, corners, pavers, sidewalks, driveways, shrubs, and tall perennials.
  • Keeps weeds down and reduce erosion.
  • Provides color in the shade and make contrasts, backgrounds, and focal points.
  
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• Great for beginners:
  • Easy to grow--most varieties grow rapidly (some may grow 4" a day) and multiply often.
  • Mysterious, fascinating, and fun to watch.
  • Look elegant and add "curb appeal" to your property.
  • Easily add to your landscaping and improve your property value.
• Hostas can make anyone a great gardener; they offer something for everyone!

We save you money!

• Our prices are extremely competitive, often saving you 50% OR MORE from market prices! Plus, out-of-state customers do not pay sales tax.
• We sell less expensive hostas three ways: Starter Hostas (TC) (tissue culture), Advanced Starters, and Mature Divisions. Now you can get the newest varieties, all disease-free, while still saving money!
• Every plant has to start somewhere. Since hosta seed does not produce identical offspring, "tissue culture" was developed and has been in practice since approximately 1985.
  
  H. 'Guacamole'
  Tissue culture plants are mass-produced from the basal cells of the "mother plant" and growing them in a "clean room" laboratory. When they get to a certain size, they are then grown in a disease-free greenhouse. HostasDirect, Inc. sells the Starter Hostas (TC) and Advanced Starters that are used to grow the hostas you see in larger pots at traditional nurseries and garden centers. The difference is the nursery plants may have grown for a longer time with more soil, so the plants, root systems, and pots can be bigger. Keep in mind that in some nurseries the tissue culture may have been recently placed in a large pot and sold for a premium. Nursery-grown plants cost more because there are more materials, labor, time and space required. However, our Starter Hostas (TC) and Advanced Starters have good root systems that allow the plant to transplant well into the soil or larger pot with just a little care. Hostas are very hardy plants. We have tested different sizes and types tissue culture by planting them directly in the ground during different times of year in Minnesota climate for years, and they do very well. The Minnesota Hosta Society and other hosta societies have purchased tissue culture plants for their members for years.

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