Hosta 'Great Expectations' ~ Monrovia® Great Expectations Hosta yellow-leaf Image: Homer Edward Price

Image: Homer Edward Price

Temperate Eurasia

Autumn Sun Cutleaf Coneflower is a tall native herbaceous perennial with an upright clumping habit and deeply lobed rich green foliage

IMAGES: Photoset by Leonora (Ellie) Enking

Krauter Vesuvius Cherry Plum

Hosta 'Great Expectations' ~ Monrovia® Great Expectations Hosta yellow-leaf Image: Homer Edward PriceGreat Expectations Hosta is a compact shade loving herbaceous perennial primarily grown for its foliage. The large puckered basal leaves have wide dark green margins and fern green streaks between the margins and the ever changing center, which emerges chartreuse than shifts to yellow, then cream, then white as the season progresses. Small bell like pale lavender flowers raise up in terminals from the tall spikes in mid summer attracting butterflies