HOSTA 'GOLD EDGER'

A few years ago I bought a different kind of hosta, Gold Edger, to plant in my garden.  I believe it's intended to be grown at the edge of a border but I chose to plant it in a relatively shallow terracotta pot that I found, a broken pot on which the bottom had fallen out!  I planted Gold Edger in it and look at it now; lovely leaves and producing flowers too. 

Hosta 'Gold Edger' grown in a shallow, bottomless, terracotta pot

It has a lot of flower spikes ready to open

Despite the fact that it is so close to the ground, it is relatively slug free.  The top of the container is covered in sharp grit and I think that is what is helping to keep slugs away.  A container of slug bait lasted for years, but I ran out a year or so ago and never bothered buying any more.  I think birds eat a lot of them and I admit I 'deal' with them when I find them.




By the way, the plant with the deep pink flowers and interesting foliage shown above is Dicentra formosa.




This is how the hosta 'Gold Edger' looked when I first planted it.