Hosta 'August Moon' in the Hostas Database - Garden.org

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Data specific to Hostas (Edit)
Name of Hybridizer:	Richard Langfelder/Alex Summers
Year of Registration:	1968

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit:	Herb/Forb
Life cycle:	Perennial
Sun Requirements:	Full Sun to Partial Shade Partial or Dappled Shade
Minimum cold hardiness:	Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Maximum recommended zone:	Zone 8b
Plant Height:	18-28 inches
Plant Spread:	36-42 inches
Leaves:	Unusual foliage color Other: Heart-shaped leaves are bright gold to chartreuse depending on sun. Slug and snail resistant. Large (leaf 81-144 sq.inches))
Flowers:	Showy
Flower Color:	White Other: Lavender blush emerges on scapes 24-26 inches. 35-40 flowers per scape.
Flower Time:	Summer
Underground structures:	Rhizome
Uses:	Groundcover
Wildlife Attractant:	Birds Hummingbirds
Propagation: Seeds:	Will not come true from seed Other info: Seed is viable.
Propagation: Other methods:	Division
Awards and Recognitions:	Other: 2012 Great Plant Picks award winner
Parentage:	Seedling of: Hosta sieboldiana
Child plants:	6 child plants

Common names

Hosta

Also sold as:

Golden Sieboldiana

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Location: my front yard
Date: 2012-07-02

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5/2021

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Date: July
credit: Terren Peterson

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Location: Manitoba, Canada
Date: 2015-06-27

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Date: 2005-06-17
Courtesy Crownsville Nursery

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Date: 2011-09-05

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Location: Millinocket, Maine
Date: 2022-06-13
August Moon on northwest corner

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Location: Millinocket, Maine
Date: 2022-06-17
August Moon mixing with a volunteer Blue Mammoth

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Whatever the spotting was on the leaves, it did not replicate the

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Location: Pleasant Grove, Utah
Date: 2012-05-02
Spring color...in my garden

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Location: My garden in N E Pa.
Date: 2016-08-11

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Location: Pleasant Grove, Utah
Date: 2012-05-08
In my garden

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Location: all photos from my gardens
Date: 2019-04-08

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Location: Central Kansas (Zone 6b)
Date: 2015-05-10
Receives afternoon sun

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Location: Enterprise, Al. 36330
Date: 2014-06-21

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Date: 2012-07-13

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Location: Enterprise, Al. 36330
Date: 2015-06-21

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Location: Central Kansas (Zone 6b)
Date: 2015-05-10
Receives afternoon sun

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Comments:

Posted by valleylynn (Oregon City, OR - Zone 8b) on Jan 21, 2012 4:13 PM concerning plant:

This hosta will tolerates full sun which will intensify the gold color of the leaves, but you need to keep it watered.

Growth rate: Medium

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