How to Use hosta in a Sentence

hosta

noun

• Ready to find a new best friend for your hostas?
  — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 25 Apr. 2026
• Here’s what to know about how and when to prune hostas.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 3 Sep. 2025
• Blue and green hostas require more shade.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 28 Aug. 2025
• Cut hostas back once the leaves turn brown and wither.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2025
• Fall is a great time to add hostas to your garden.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2025
• Here’s how to care for your hostas when fall arrives.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 7 Oct. 2025
• Don't cut hostas back when most of the plant still has green upright leaves.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 7 Oct. 2025
• Keep an eye on your hostas as fall progresses.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Oct. 2025
• Then remove and dispose of any leaves around your hostas.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2025
• The loss of these trees exposes her beloved hostas to too much sun.
  — Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 1 Aug. 2019
• What about red begonias paired with green hostas or ferns in the shade?
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2025
• Find out when to cut back hostas and how to help these plants overwinter well.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Sep. 2024
• Use a coffee/water soil drench or leaf spray to keep your hostas slug-free.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 25 Apr. 2025
• Pair them with hosta, ferns, and hellebore.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2026
• For mature hostas, simply dig up and clean the root ball, then cut the clump.
  — Samantha Johnson, Martha Stewart, 29 June 2026
• Cut hostas back after a hard freeze when the leaves are limp, brown, and dying.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 3 Sep. 2025
• The Springland springhouse is in a side yard, amid the hostas.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 1 May 2018
• The hosta will then grow new leaves the following spring from the crown.
  — Samantha Johnson, Martha Stewart, 29 June 2026
• If your hosta still has a lot of green growth, remove only dead leaves.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 3 Sep. 2025
• If hosta foliage is still alive, so is the plant’s growth below ground.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Oct. 2025
• On average, hostas mature to about two feet tall.
  — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 29 May 2026
• So hostas, ferns, lavender, mint, and roses should be avoided.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 3 Mar. 2026
• In shade, hostas, ferns, and even some of the shade grasses can carry you through the warmer months in style.
  — Paul Cappiello, Louisville Courier Journal, 13 Feb. 2026
• Many ferns, begonias, hostas, coleus, and leopard plant can all be grown in deep shade.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 17 Apr. 2026
• As far as the best time to cut back your hostas entirely, that should be done after a hard freeze.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 3 Sep. 2025
• Combined with hostas in a shade bed, white wood aster will cover dry areas filled with shade tree roots.
  — Judy Nauseef, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 May 2026
• Combined with hostas in a shade bed, white wood aster will cover dry areas filled with shade tree roots.
  — Judy Nauseef, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 June 2025
• Growth slows as the weather cools, so fall is another good time to divide hostas.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 26 Feb. 2026
• Plant hostas in rich potting mix and keep the soil consistently moist.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 29 June 2025
• Place the hosta in the hole with roots spread out and the base about 1 inch below soil level.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2025