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Hosta 'Fire and Ice'

Plantain Lily

Hardy Perennial

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The RHS have recognised the superb garden performance of Hosta 'Fire and Ice' with an Award of Garden Merit (AGM), and you should too! This plantain lily's variegated leaves have a pure white centre edged with bottle green, providing a striking backdrop to the funnel-shaped, lilac flowers that appear in July. This hardy perennial’s unusual reverse variegation makes it best suited to brightening up shady borders or contrasting with dark ferns from spring to autumn. Height: 55cm (1'10"); Spread: 1m (3'3").

Culinary information: The best part to use is the hoston, the rolled up leaf as it emerges in the spring. Cooking depends on the size of the hostons, small ones can be fried for a few minutes, going well in stir fries. Thicker ones are better boiled and used as a vegetable. For more details about edible flowers click here.

Plant Size Height Up to 55cm (22in)
Spread Up to 100cm (39in)

Hardiness & Longevity Hardy Perennial

Ideal For low maintenance gardenpatiowildlife gardenscottage gardenswater gardenwoodland garden

Position In sun or semi shadedappled shade

Flowering Months

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Codes
2 x 2 Litre Potted Plants (V63563P)
1 x 2 Litre Potted Plant (V63463)
1 x 9cm Potted Plant (KC6979)

When growing Hostas, choose a position in partial or dappled shade on fertile, moist, well drained soil. Add plenty of well rotted manure to improve heavy clay or light sandy soils. Alternatively plant Hostas in patio containers in soil based compost such as John Innes No. 3.

In autumn, remove old foliage and apply a mulch of well rotted manure or garden compost to the base of the plant. Lift and divide Hosta plants in autumn every third year to maintain their vigour.

Seeds and garden supplies will normally be delivered within the time period stated against each product as detailed above. Plants, bulbs, corms, tubers, shrubs, trees, potatoes, etc. are delivered at the appropriate time for planting or potting on. Delivery times will be stated on the product page above, or in your order acknowledgement page and email.

Orders for packets of seed incur a delivery charge of £2.99.

Orders which include any other products will incur a delivery charge of £6.99.

Where an order includes both packets of seeds and other products, a maximum delivery charge of £7.99 will apply - regardless of the number of items ordered.

Large items may incur a higher delivery charge - this will be displayed in your shopping basket.

Please see our Delivery page for further details, and more information on different charges that may apply to certain destinations.

For more information on how we send your plants please visit our Helpful Guide on plant sizes.

Van Meuwen strives to ensure that all its plants are delivered to you in the perfect condition for planting. While the majority of our nursery plants cope well with slight delays in intransit, sadly, the time it takes to deliver to certain locations in the UK means that we can't guarantee this for some of our smaller plug products and tender bedding and vegetable lines, which do not respond well to the extra journey time. So regretfully while we offer the majority of our live plant offering nationwide, we are unable to ship plugs, begging plants and tender vegetable plants to the following areas: HS, IV41-IV49, IV51, IV55-56, KW15-KW17, PA34, PA41-48, PA60-PA78, PA80, PH40-PH44, TR21-TR24, ZE1-ZE3.