2 Hosta 'Captain Kirk' Bareroot Starter Perennial. Cool Colors. Ready to Plant. Love Shade.
2 Hosta 'Captain Kirk' Bareroot Starter Perennial. Cool Colors. Ready to Plant. Love Shade.
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Plants depicted in photos are at maturity. We sell starter perennials shipped bare root, as plugs (young plants) or bulbs. Plugs are shipped trimmed to reduce stress during travel.
Common Name: Hosta
- An impressive, eye-catching large hosta; makes an excellent specimen plant
- An improved sport of 'Gold Standard' with much wider, dark green margins, gold centers, and heavier substance
- Pale lavender flowers appear on 30" scapes in midsummer
Hostas are exceedingly popular perennials in today's gardens due to their versatility in the landscape. Their subtle colors, tall flower scapes, and broad, coarse leaves fill a niche in garden designs that few other plants can achieve. Their large leaves provide excellent coverage for dying bulb foliage. Hostas also grow well in city environments where the air may be polluted by car exhaust, etc.
Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9
Height: 20"
Spread: 30-40"
Sunlight: Part Shade and Full Shade
Foliage: Variegated
Flower: Purple
Bloom Season: Mid Summer, Late Summer, and Summer
Ships bare root.
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Hosta 'Captain Kirk'
- Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9
- Height: 20"
- Spread: 30-40"
- Sunlight: Part Shade and Full Shade
- Foliage: Variegated
- Flower: Purple
- Bloom Season: Mid Summer, Late Summer, and Summer
- Plant Features: Attacts Hummingbirds and Urban Tolerable
- Water: Average
- Soil Quality: Average and Fertile
- Soil Chemistry: ph 6.5 and pH 7.0
- Growth Rate: Moderate
How to Plant, Grow and Enjoy Hostas
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Hostas Appearance
Hostas have earned their place in gardens through their unparalleled landscape adaptability and resilience. They simply come back every year and their understated color palette, statuesque flower stems, and expansive foliage create elements difficult to replicate.
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Easy to Propagate
Hostas are easy to propagate through division. You can do this at any time during the growing season with little or no affect on the growth of the parent plant. But it's best that each division have at least 3 eyes so allow your hostas to mature for a few years before dividing them.
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Critters
Deer and rabbit will munch on hostas, unfortunately, we know. But you can grow companion plants that may help deter critters due to strong scents, textures, or toxicity these animals tend to avoid. Lavender, Alliums, Ferns, Daffodils, Catmint, Sage, to name a few.
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Extra Care
Organic mulch can prevent winter frost heaving in northern climates, especially for young hostas. Mulching, however, can create ideal slug conditions. Little leaf perforations are telltale sign of slug activity. Early spring application of slug bait when shoots first emerge significantly reduces infestations.
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Hosta Foliage
Subtle colors, tall flower scapes, and broad, coarse leaves fill a niche in garden designs that few other plants can achieve. The large leaves provide excellent coverage for dying bulb foliage, but you'll want to remove dormant hosta foliage heading into winter to keep the pests away.
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Hosta Sizes
Hostas come in a variety of sizes. Minis can be as small as 4-6 inches tall and 6-10 inches wide while giant hostas can dominate a garden bed by growing up to 4 feet tall and 6 feet wide (See our Empress Wu).
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Part or Full Shade
Dappled sunlight is good for hostas, especially morning sun. However, hot afternoon sun is not so great - deadly, in fact. Hostas are most comfortable in shady, woody settings.
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Soil
Hostas grow best in moist, well-drained, highly organic soils with a pH between 5.5 and 7.5. Sandy loam is better than clay because it provides more aeration for the roots.
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City Friendly
Hostas demonstrate remarkable resilience in urban settings, thriving despite air quality challenges posed by vehicular emissions and other environmental pollutants.
How it all works at Hosta King
Shipping & Handling
Starter Perennials Shipped Trimmed
We sell starter perennials shipped bare root, as small plugs or bulbs. We do not ship in containers and we will often trim back growth on our perennial plugs to reduce stress on the plants during travel. Trimming does not hurt the plants. They'll bounce back with new growth. You'll receive your plants carefully wrapped and prepared for shipping in a box.
Plant Sizes
Starter perennials are smaller because they are young. Bare roots and bulbs speak for themselves. We have plug sizes ranging from 1-2 inches x 2-4 inches. These are not yet plants at maturity as seen in many of the photos on our store. We have photos of real starter plants on some listings and we are working to post more starter photos this year in 2026. We're adding plug sizes to the plant pages, too. Bear with us as we update all our plant detail pages so you are better informed. In the meantime, if you need more details or a photo of an actual starter, send us a message in our chat.
Delivery
Your order should arrive within 7-14 days. Occasionally, we may hold an order so that we can fulfill it with new inventory we are expecting to receive. Just send us a chat if you need a status update.
Store Credit for Replacements
Unfortunately, we do not do returns, refunds or offer warranties. It's hard to guarantee plant life indefinitely as there are so many variables outside our control once the plants leave our shop. However, we understand there will be times when our plants just don't do very well on the trip from our shop to your location. If there are any issues with plants when you receive them, send us a chat message from our website. We can issue store credits covering the cost of replacements.
Just keep in the mind these are starter plants, so they're small. We do not sell and ship mature plants in containers. See the details under our Starter Perennials Shipped Trimmed section, if you haven't already. Questions? Hit us up in the chat.
Cost to Ship
Shipping fees are as follows:
- $8.99 for orders up to $39.99
- $13.99 for orders between $40 and $79.99
- $19.99 for orders between $80 and $119.99
- $25.99 for orders between $120 and $159.99
- $31.99 for orders between $160 and $199.99
- $37.99 for orders between $200 and $239.99
- $43.99 for orders between $240 and $279.99
- FREE for orders $280 or greater