Hostas, and a lot of them!

In my small garden it's difficult to grow colourful plants because most of them need a lot of sunshine. With a twelve foot high (and almost two foot thick) stone wall on one side and a barn on the other there's not much by way of sunshine at ground level on the south side. So I grown green leaved plants and one of my favourites is the Hosta.

I like hostas because there are so many different varieties. They vary enormously in size, and their leaves take different shapes and have varied colour patterns - even if those patterns are mostly made up of greens, yellows and off-whites.

Last week I took this photograph of a long border of hostas at Holehird Garden near Windermere in the English Lake District