Hosta Buffalo Golden Warrior

Hosta Buffalo Golden Warrior. We really love yellow hostas. That's why we were delighted with this seedling of the Neptune cultivar. It's a yellow hosta with narrow leaves and slightly wavy edges. The color of its leaves doesn't fall into the category of vibrant, vivid yellows; instead, it's more of a light greenish-yellow. However, it maintains this fantastic light shade for a significant part of the season. Its leaves shoot out like swords in various directions. It looks somewhat like a miniature, yellow Neptune. It blooms at the end of summer with light lavender flowers. Fertile, but mostly only about 50% of the flowers turn into seed pods. We believe that this exceptionally shaped hosta will delight anyone who loves yellow hostas and will be a valuable addition to hosta breeders' collections.

How to grow hostas

Save light shade to shade place in your garden to plant hostas. Filtered sun is best for the colorful varieties to reach their full color contrast. The green and blue hostas are the most shade-tolerant. Usually the yellow cultivars are the most sun-tolerant. The most dangerous is a direct sunshine, especially hot afternoon sun. This is the most critical where temperatures are high. Variegated varieties, especially those with a lot of white in the leaves, burn very easily. Blue color of leaves turns to green-blue or even fully green with too much direct sun. Plants with thick leaves are better suited for dry soil conditions than thin-leaved ones, but none is able to grow years-long in very dry soil. Plant hostas in moist, humus-rich soil. Water your hostas well immediately as you plant them. Give them water regularly during their first one or two growing season. Hostas grow slowly and may take 2 to 5 years to reach their full size, longer for the largest species and cultivars. Reserve a plenty of space in your perennial bed for hostas. Most of them are medium sized or large perennials. Hostas are almost fully disease and pest resistant. The most dangerous injury can by caused by slugs, snails and deers.