About The Hosta Farm
The Hosta Farm is an independent editorial archive of Hosta cultivars and shade gardening guides, written for American gardeners.
We are rebuilding this site from the ground up in 2026 as an authoritative, ad-supported reference: a complete catalogue of every registered Hosta cultivar (drawn from the official American Hosta Society Registry), accompanied by long-form care, planting, and design guides.
Editorial team
The Hosta Farm Editorial Team is a small group of horticulture writers and gardeners who have been growing, dividing, and photographing hostas for the better part of two decades. Our long-form care guides from 2018-2019 — written by an American gardener — have been preserved on this site as they were originally published.
What we publish
- Cultivar profiles. Structured data fields (size, leaf characteristics, parentage, breeder, year registered) sourced from the American Hosta Society Registry, used under US copyright law as factual reference. All descriptive prose, care notes, and analyses are original work of The Hosta Farm.
- Care and design guides. Long-form articles on planting, watering, dividing, diseases, shade-garden composition, and seasonal tasks.
- Buying guides. Honest, comparative reviews of plants, roots, seeds, fertilizers, and shade-garden tools available on Amazon. We participate in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program.
How we work
Our cultivar archive is built from publicly available factual data, cross-referenced against the AHS Registry, hostalists.org, and other authoritative horticultural references. Photographs come from Creative Commons sources (Wikimedia Commons, Flickr CC), permission-based partnerships with American nurseries, commissioned photography, or original botanical illustrations created in-house. Every image is credited individually.
We do not reproduce copyrighted images from third parties without permission.
Sources
- Cultivar registration data: American Hosta Society Registry (the official ICRA for the genus Hosta)
- Wikimedia Commons (Hosta cultivars category)
- Flickr Creative Commons
- Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder