First Frost Hosta

Hosta 'First Frost' (Hosta 'First Frost') is a strikingly beautiful, medium-sized hosta of genuine garden distinction — producing broad, ovate leaves in a cool, powdery blue-green tone elegantly edged in a wide cream-to-pure-white margin that brightens and defines each leaf with a clean, luminous precision. The creamy white margins age to pure white as the season progresses, intensifying the high-contrast blue-and-white color combination that gives 'First Frost' its evocative name and its commanding visual presence in shaded borders, woodland gardens, and container arrangements. As an AHS award-winning cultivar, 'First Frost' has been recognized for its exceptional foliage quality, vigorous growth, and outstanding overall garden performance — a well-deserved distinction for a hosta that earns its place through sheer, consistent ornamental excellence across the full growing season and through a wide range of challenging shade garden conditions.

This professional-grade 4" plant arrives with a healthy, well-established root system cultivated through professional horticultural practices — ready to settle in and develop its characteristic broad, beautifully marked foliage mound. 'First Frost' performs magnificently as a bold shade garden specimen, as a refined front-of-border foliage anchor in woodland compositions, as a striking container subject on shaded patios and terraces, and as a sophisticated companion to dark-leaved hostas, bright chartreuse foliage, and white-flowering shade perennials for richly layered, high-contrast shade garden compositions of genuine sophistication.

• Striking Blue-Green Foliage with Cream-to-White Margins: Broad, ovate, powdery blue-green leaves edged in wide cream-to-pure-white margins create a high-contrast, luminous foliage display of exceptional clarity and cool, sophisticated beauty — a commanding visual presence in shaded borders that intensifies in impact as the margins age to pure white through the season.
• AHS Award-Winning Foliage Quality: Recognized by the American Hosta Society for exceptional foliage quality, vigorous growth, and outstanding overall garden performance — an independently validated confirmation of the ornamental excellence and reliable performance that makes 'First Frost' one of the most respected and sought-after medium hosta cultivars available.
• Lavender Flowers Above the Foliage: Pale lavender flower scapes rise attractively above the bold, variegated foliage in summer — adding a delicate seasonal floral accent that complements the cool blue-and-white foliage palette with light, naturalistic grace.
• Exceptional Shade Performance: Thrives in conditions from full shade to bright filtered light, maintaining consistent foliage quality, vigorous growth, and the characteristic blue-green and white color contrast across a wide range of challenging low-light garden conditions.
• Deer Resistant: The thick, powdery blue-green foliage has natural deer resistance — a significant practical advantage in gardens where browsing pressure threatens the ornamental display of more vulnerable shade perennials through the growing season.

These 4" healthy live plants thrive in partial shade to full shade with fertile, consistently moist, well-drained soil; protect from hot afternoon sun which bleaches and damages the cool blue-green foliage. Water regularly, keeping soil evenly moist throughout the growing season. USDA Hardiness Zones 3–9; mature height: 18–22 inches in foliage; spread: 30–36 inches. Bloom time: mid to late summer. Divide every four to five years in early spring to maintain vigor and the characteristic bold, well-formed foliage mound.