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  • noun Plural form of hosta.

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Examples

  • • For those perennials that prefer moist conditions, such as hostas, ligularias and rodgersias, aim to establish with their crowns 1in below the surface of the soil.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • "With small plants, such as hostas that are starting to pop, you can just put a pot over them with a rock on top," Montell said.

    CITIZEN-TIMES.com - News 2009

  • Plant the bulbs among perennials that will hide the withering foliage, such as hostas, bergenia and

    WN.com - Articles related to Protest in Bangkok calls for Thai PM to step down 2009

  • Plant the bulbs among perennials that will hide the withering foliage, such as hostas, bergenia and

    WN.com - Articles related to This Diwali, books and plants replace sweets 2009

  • Try to keep each pot reasonably simple, giving stand-alone space to foliage specimens such as hostas and palms.

    icNewcastle 2009

  • There are many other ways of propagating plants, including dividing clumps of grasses, herbaceous perennials such as hostas and wild geraniums

    icNewcastle 2009

  • Large-leafed plants such as hostas have a course texture.

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  • There are many other ways of propagating plants, including dividing clumps of grasses, herbaceous perennials such as hostas and wild geraniums

    icNewcastle 2009

  • Put sun-loving palms and succulents in the hottest spots, and position shade-tolerant plants, such as hostas, beneath the canopies of large-leaved plants.

    icNewcastle 2009

  • Seeing, in April, hostas unfurl like arias, and tulips, white cups inscribed with licks of flame, gaze feverish, grown almost to my waist, and the oak raise new leaves for benediction,

    Celebration 2009

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