Hosta 'Blue Hawaii' ~ Blue Hawaii Hosta star-roses IMAGES: Niepokój Zbigniew

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attracting bees

and leaf galls

Rhododendron cultivar 'Roseum Elegans'

The white or pale pink summer flowers are followed by tiny red drooping cherry-like drupes that ripen to black and persist through winter

Hosta 'Blue Hawaii' ~ Blue Hawaii Hosta star-roses IMAGES: Niepokój ZbigniewBlue Hawaii Hosta is a shade loving herbaceous perennial that forms a vase shaped mound and primarily grown for its foliage. The large, heart shaped powder blue green basal leaves are slightly cupped and are deeply veined and corrugated. Its small, fragrant bell like white flowers raise up in terminals from the rootstalk above the mound in mid summer attracting butterflies and pollinators. Best color in partial sun and moist well drained soils. Blue