When I had my much bigger garden many years ago, back in the mid 80s to mid 90s, I used to grow various types of hosta at the bottom of my garden. The garden was on a long slope and at the bottom it was north-facing, shady, and moist. Hostas loved it, but so did the slugs. Now I have a smaller garden, I still want to grow hostas but have to be more selective about the size to which they will grow, and I'm not giving slugs a chance. Last year I planted the small hosta,
'Brim cup', in a terracotta pot and now I have bought 'Gold Edger'. Like 'Brim Cup' it is to be grown as a specimen, in a terracotta pot, surrounded by gravel that the slugs just hate sliding across.
As the label says, and as you can see above, hosta 'Gold Edger' forms a dense mound of layered light green leaves that turn gold with age with many stems holding an abundance of lavender flowers from July to August. It grows to a height of 50cm (20in). Sounds perfect.
