Hosta Love Pat Acorus when many other woodland perennials

when many other woodland perennials are still dormant

We have had very good luck growing these in very moist garden soils as well as shallow standing water

The woody perennial species are most often shrubs though there are some salvias that are trees

It will not survive in soils that remain waterlogged

absent only in the far northwest quadrant

Hosta Love Pat Acorus when many other woodland perennialsDespite the flood of new introductions, Hosta 'Love Pat' is still hard to beat. This truly great hosta makes a 3' wide clump of round, intensely corrugated, deep blue foliage good even in the upper South! This slow but easy to grow hosta is topped with nice stalks of white flowers that attract hummingbirds in early summer.