Tropical Dancer Hosta

Can Hostas do the Hula? One look at the Tropical Dancer Hosta (Hosta 'Tropical Dancer') puts on a colorful show with its heart-shaped wavy green leaves and lovely fountain-like growth! These elongated leaves are trimmed with creamy white margins that are tightly ruffled and serrated. The margins brighten to white later in the season!

Forming a broad showy clump in the garden, Tropical Dancer is a strong grower and produces lavender flowers on upright scapes in the summer! This fantastic perennial brings in backup dancers to your garden stage in the form of exotically-costumed bees, butterflies, and Hummingbirds as they arrive to sip the nectar of the trumpet-shaped blossoms!

Thriving throughout most of the States, Tropical Dancer Hostas are cold, heat, and humidity tolerant throughout USDA growing zones 3 to 9 and are, easy to grow, and perfect for the newbie gardener! Smaller in stature, these vibrant perennials grow 14 inches tall and about 26 inches wide!

Planting and Application:

Tropical Dancer is most at home prancing through shady woodland settings and the tree-covered understory garden! Either as a single specimen plant or in rows as an edging plant and facer plant, Hostas leafy foliage adds the finishing touch to your landscape!

Perfect for shady Asian and Zen-inspired gardens, lending a cool and calming presence to areas for meditation and relaxation. In fact, any garden design looks more peaceful with a few Hostas! Butterfly gardens and cottage gardens will get a traditional look with the addition of a few of these colorful perennials!

Partnering fantastically with other shade perennials such as Fern or Bleeding Hearts. Or for a real statement piece, create your own Hosta garden for an impressively colorful display. After all, there are about a thousand different varieties of Hosta these days, in all shapes and sizes! Pair this ornamental with other dancers like Dance With Me Hosta for a rhythmic shade garden of your dreams!

• Creamy White Margins Turn Pure White
• Heart-Shaped Wavy Green Leaves
• Serrated and Ruffled Edges
• Lavender Flowers For Pollinators & Hummingbirds
• Great Shade Garden & Edging Plant, Containers & Accents

#ProPlantTips for Care:

Also known as Plantain Lily, Tropical Dancer is an herbaceous perennial that has an amazing assortment of colors in each leaf that intensifies in bright light, and while Hosta can be fairly sun tolerant in cooler growing zones, they should be given dappled shade, afternoon shade, or full shade in hotter climates. When watering, make sure to lift up the leaves and water the soil directly underneath. Its large leaves can sometimes act like a bit of an umbrella and keep the roots from getting water. Perennial Hostas grow best in moist, well-drained, highly organic soils with a pH between 5.5 and 7.5. A generous layer of arborist mulch helps retain soil moisture as well as insulate the root system from heat and chill. Wait until the leaves have been exposed to frost and have turned brown before removing all leaf litter in late fall.

• Filtered, Dappled Shade, Part Shade to Full Shade
• Moisture Loving Plant
• Enriched, Well-Drained Soil
• Deadhead After Flowering & Prune Late Fall After Frost
• Extreme Cold Hardiness, Heat Tolerance & Humidity
• Easy Care & Low Maintenance

With its great form and ruffled wavy leaves, this Tropical Dancer Hosta almost seems to be in motion! Order yours today at NatureHills.com!

Frequently Asked Questions

Do Hostas need full sun or shade?

Hosta does best in full sun in cooler climates but does appreciate afternoon protection from the worst of the summer sun, especially in the hottest of their growing zone range. In the hottest climates, Hosta like partial shade or dappled shade, and some varieties will do great in full shade.

Where do Hostas grow best?

Hosta plants love enriched, well-drained soil that is moderately yet consistently moist throughout the growing season. They appreciate mulched garden beds.

Do Hostas come back every year? Are Hostas a perennial plant?

With vigorous carefree growth, Hostas are herbaceous perennial plants that will return year after year with little maintenance.

What do you do with Hostas in the fall? What do you do with Hostas in the winter?

Hosta leaves will die back after frost but the crowns and roots remain intact and dormant until next spring. Prune back the leaves once they turn brown in the autumn and remove them from the plant's area. For winter protection, add a layer of compost or mulch over the crowns to protect them from the chill.

Do Hosta attract hummingbirds or pollinators?

Hostas are loved by pollinators and hummingbirds! All walks of beneficial pollinators will show up to sip their nectar.

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