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 in fall after frost for tidy beds, but waiting until spring protects crowns and roots. In summer, remove dead or damaged leaves and spent flowers to keep plants healthy. Always cut with ...

Fall is a great time to add hostas to your garden. Before the days shorten and frost covers your lawn, there’s still time to get plants like hostas in the ground. While hostas can be planted in any ...

The next few weeks are some of the year’s best for pruning landscape plants – mainly woody-stemmed ones that already have bloomed for the year, as well as most needled evergreens. Spring-blooming ...