Last weekend I bought some replacement perennials for the ones that didn’t survive winter. It was a heuchera massacre out there. Heucheras have shallow roots that frost heave in the spring, and some of them have unsightly leaves that die off and turn crunchy brown and smother the new leaves that try to emerge in the spring. I’m a little tired of heucheras.
Instead of replacing the heucheras that croaked over the winter with new heucheras, I bought a couple of hostas instead. One of them was hosta ‘Fire Island’ (it’s not particularly photogenic here, but what do you expect after 5 inches of rain?):
This hosta grows 15 inches tall and about 2 feet wide with yellow-green leaves.
I must have a thing for lime green or chartreuse right now because I’d forgotten that just a few feet behind this new hosta grows hosta ‘Dancing Queen’ (it hadn’t yet emerged last weekend):
‘Dancing Queen’ grows 18 inches tall and about 2 feet wide.
Both of these limey-green cultivars are hardy in Zones 3-9.