As trees change colors in autumn, so do hostas, adding to your garden’s beautiful fall colors. And while these yellow leaves can be beautiful, you may be ready to trim them for aesthetic reasons.

Pruning is an important step in garden maintenance, especially for hostas. Cutting back brown leaves will not only benefit your yard aesthetically, but will also help reduce the risk of pests and ...

Find out when to cut back hostas and how to help these plants overwinter well. When leaves on trees start showing fall colors, hostas also start turning vibrant yellow, soft orange, and muted brown.

Hostas are a gardener's go-to plant for a shade garden with good reason: They are hardy, perennial, foliage plants easy to establish and maintain, but they aren't evergreen. Leaves die back, usually ...

Prune hostas just before a killing frost in your zone for best results. Fall pruning keeps beds tidy, deters pests, and directs energy to spring growth. If missed, let foliage die back naturally and ...

You know hostas? Those broad-leafed, perennial plants landscapers so often put in shady spots, or on the edges between gardens and lawns? Well, it turns out hosta shoots are edible. Really.

In fall, cut back hosta leaves, clear debris, and mulch crowns with pine needles for winter protection. Divide plants at least 30 days before frost, or overwinter divisions indoors if you’re late. For ...

So versatile and ubiquitous are hostas that I have yet to visit a garden that doesn’t have at least one whether left by a previous gardener or selected by the present one. Hostas certainly are ...