Hosta ‘Golden Tiara’

Hosta ‘Golden Tiara’ is a classic because it was the first small hosta to have gold margined leaves. The Golden Tiaras in my gardens look very large and lush, but I bought them all years ago as small plants for less than fifty cents each! Just before Thanksgiving one year, one of the local nurseries still had several rather dead-looking hostas that hadn’t sold, and I offered them five dollars for the lot. For our zone 4 climate, mid-November is late to be planting hostas, but every one of them survived and is thriving today. I call that purchase the best hosta bargain I ever found, because in addition to five Golden Tiaras, there were also more unusual hostas in the group. Golden Tiara’s leaves are heart-shaped, thin, and a natural slug-bait. The leaves develop a slight corrugation as the hosta matures. Golden Tiara grows very quickly and produces lots of flowers… and in my gardens, lots of seed pods, but the seeds do not germinate easily. If you like hosta flowers, Golden Tiara will sometimes blossom twice if you cut off the scapes once the first flowers have faded.

Leaves:
4 1/2 inches long, 3 1/2 inches wide
1/8 to 3/4-inch irregular gold margin
7 to 8 vein pairs

Flowers:
purple
blooms mid-July to early August
25 to 34-inch high scapes

Mound size:
39 inches in diameter
16 inches high

Filed Under Plants in my Gardens, Hosta