Kyla, you're on the butterflies, birds, and bees forum so most of us garden for exactly those things. The only thing I know about hostas is I think they attract slugs. And most people seem to grow them for their foliage as I've rarely seen blooms. You might actually want to hop on over to the hosta forum and see what they think about all this. I don't know that hostas are a big insect attractant so it would seem to me like it wouldn't really matter if they were treated with pesticides or not. Preferably, they would not, but I'm just not sure it would have the same impact as if all milkweed were treated with pesticides. One is a known host plant for a butterfly, the hostas I think attract deer but I'm not sure if pesticides affect deer anyway. I'm not really sure why your friend is so adamant that hostas be pesticide-free unless I'm missing something here. Unless these are genetically modified hostas, wouldn't any pesticides fade away over time, anyway?
