June Hosta

Hosta 'June' (Hosta 'June') is a truly exceptional, internationally award-winning hosta that has captivated shade gardeners worldwide with its breathtaking, two-toned foliage — broad, ovate leaves in a vivid, luminous chartreuse-yellow to gold center surrounded by wide, cool blue-green margins that together create a striking, jewel-toned two-tone display of warm-against-cool contrast that changes, evolves, and deepens in its beauty across the full arc of the growing season. As the season progresses from spring into summer, the brilliant chartreuse center matures to a rich, burnished gold while the blue-green margins retain their cool depth — a dynamic, continuously evolving foliage story of remarkable seasonal complexity. Awarded the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit, the American Hosta Growers' Hosta of the Year, and numerous other international distinctions, 'June' carries a body of independent horticultural recognition that reflects its genuine, exceptional quality.

This professional-grade 4" plant arrives with a healthy, well-established root system cultivated through professional horticultural practices — ready to establish and develop its characteristic spectacular foliage mound. 'June' performs magnificently as a focal-point shade garden specimen, as a bold two-toned foliage anchor in woodland and shade border compositions, as a dramatic container subject on shaded patios and terraces, and as the most visually complex and rewarding companion to blue hostas, dark-leaved heucheras, and white-flowering shade perennials for layered, high-contrast shade garden compositions of genuine international caliber.

• Brilliant Chartreuse-Gold Center with Blue-Green Margins: Vivid, luminous chartreuse-yellow to gold leaf centers surrounded by wide cool blue-green margins create a striking, jewel-toned two-tone contrast of warm-against-cool beauty — a dynamic, evolving foliage display that deepens and matures across the full growing season as the chartreuse center warms to burnished gold.
• Multiple International Award Winner: Recipient of the RHS Award of Garden Merit, American Hosta Growers' Hosta of the Year, and numerous other international horticultural distinctions — an independently validated body of recognition that confirms 'June' as one of the finest and most ornamentally significant hosta cultivars ever introduced into cultivation.
• Dynamic Seasonal Foliage Evolution: The vivid chartreuse-yellow spring center matures to burnished gold through summer while the cool blue-green margins deepen and hold — a continuously evolving, two-toned foliage story of remarkable seasonal complexity that rewards sustained observation and delivers new beauty at every stage of the growing season.
• Pale Lavender Flowers Above the Foliage: Pale lavender flower scapes rise above the spectacular two-toned foliage mound in summer — a delicate, complementary floral accent that adds a final layer of ornamental refinement to what is already one of the most visually complex and rewarding shade garden plants available.
• Exceptional Shade Garden Focal Point: The bold, two-toned warm-against-cool foliage contrast creates an immediate, commanding focal point in any shade garden setting — functioning as both a standalone specimen of genuine visual drama and as the most sophisticated and rewarding foliage anchor available for layered woodland garden compositions.

These 4" healthy live plants thrive in partial shade to full shade with fertile, consistently moist, well-drained soil; best chartreuse-to-gold color develops in dappled shade or morning sun — deep shade reduces the intensity and vibrancy of the chartreuse-gold center significantly. Water regularly, keeping soil evenly moist. USDA Hardiness Zones 3–9; mature height: 18–22 inches in foliage; spread: 24–30 inches. Bloom time: mid to late summer. Divide every four to five years in early spring to maintain the characteristic vigorous, spectacularly marked foliage mound.