Hosta Pineapple Salsa

If you have hosta Mango Salsa in your garden, you will surely agree that it is a very nice, little hosta that, with a little care, will excite you with a beautiful, bright yellow color in the spring. Bob Solberg found Sport of this hosta Mango Salsa in his garden, which he named Pineapple Salsa. It has slightly wavy leaves of a bright color, a fresh yellow-green center and a darker green border. If you add to this color combination a dark red of the leaf’s petioles, we are somewhere in the tropics and we are looking at some exotic bromelia... Would you like to have a bit rainforest in your garden?

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.