Cream-edged hostas are carrying the front of the foundation bed, with flower stems lifting through the foliage beside silver-veined heuchera.
Season notes
The hostas are still clean and full in July, providing a broad low counterweight to the recovered variegated Japanese euonymus behind them.
The hostas are fully leafed out now, with broad ribbed leaves, cream margins, and enough chartreuse variation to keep the lower shade layer bright.
Season notes
This close border view is a clean June baseline: no major chewing visible, strong leaf size, and the variegation reads clearly even in shade.
The hostas and aucuba are making a layered green-and-gold shade composition, with speckled evergreen leaves above and ribbed hosta leaves below.
Season notes
The aucuba canopy gives the bed a high mottled texture while the hostas keep the front edge broad, calm, and readable.
Different hosta clumps are starting to read as one continuous low layer beneath the aucuba, each with its own leaf size and variegation pattern.
Season notes
The brick edge and repeated leaf shapes keep this dense shaded strip organized, even with fallen leaves and mixed background foliage behind it.