The elegant Hosta Blue Cadet is an exotic-looking cultivar with dense, blue leaves and enchanting lavender blooms that will have your neighbors oh-ing and ah-ing!
This shrub is a medium-sized hosta that features elegant, lavender, tubular flowers that rise above the green foliage beginning in mid-summer. The blue hostas attractive, small, textured, heart-shaped leaves remain blue-green in color throughout the growing season.
The Blue Cadet makes a beautiful and unique ground cover or border edging. They are perfect for shade gardens under trees!
Blue Cadet prefers moist, well-drained soil with partial shade to full shade. The Hosta blue cadet size will grow to be about 16 inches tall at maturity extending a spread of 3 feet wide.
Grow across the United States in USDA growing zones 3-9. It is an extremely cold hardy perennial that is easy to grow and low maintenance.
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Botanical Name
Hosta 'Blue Cadet'
Sunlight Full Shade / Partial Sun
Flower Color Light purple
Foliage Color Blue-green
Mature Height 16 in
Mature Width 36 in
Growing Zones 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Special Features
Low maintenance
Purple flowers
Attractive foliage
Cold hardy
Shipping Info
Once your Hosta Blue Cadet order is placed, we will ship your plant(s) within seven business days year round unless during the checkout process you request otherwise in the space provided to do so.
Perfect Plants’ shipping specialists carefully package your plants using a proven packaging method that ensures your plants arrive healthy, colorfully alive and ready to flourish. We’ve coined the term ‘upside down box test’ and we do just that; we carefully package so that regardless of the direction your box is handled, it will not harm your precious plant that’s inside.
No shipping process is without a problem from time to time. On rare occasions some plants may experience some of the following during their transit: drooping, minor leaf-loss and/or minimal yellowing/discoloration, minor limb damage, etc. These instances are quite rare, but can happen when shipping plants in boxes.
Plants normally recover within a few weeks after planting. If a damaged box has injured your plant on the inside, please notify us within 5 days of receiving you package(s) by emailing us a photograph of the damage.
We always do our very best to ensure that your plants are packed and shipped in the safest, gentlest and most effective way possible.
Will my plants and trees look like the photographs?
Absolutely! Unlike other online nurseries, our photos are of actual plants and trees we’ve grown here, on our family operated nursery.
Growing our own plants and trees helps to ensure we ship you the best quality plants that are free of pests and diseases.
Your plants and trees may however not ship with flowers on them, like the photographs. This all depends on the time of year you buy your plant or tree. Crape Myrtle trees, for example, only bloom during the summer months, so if you purchase one during the spring or fall, they would ship without flowers. Once planted, your plants will grow and thrive giving you flowers for many years to come!
Pot Sizes
Pot sizes (commonly referred to in gallons) are shipped in the same size nursery trade pots which may vary in actual volume. Some plants may have been at the approximate pot size listed, but require excess dirt to be removed so that you will not be paying any additional shipping costs. This doesn’t happen very often though.
Shipping Fees
Our shipping charges are based on the value of your order. Please use the chart below to see what your shipping charge will be.
Care
BLUE CADET HOSTA CARE:
This low maintenance Hosta does best in full shade to partial sun. It does well with an average, well-drained soil that is moist but not soggy. This hardy plant does well in the winter, but spent flower shoots and any damaged leaves should be removed routinely.
The Blue Cadet Hosta should be planted 3-4 feet apart from other plants.
PLANTING INSTRUCTIONS:
Dig a hole approximately twice as wide as your new plant’s root ball and deep enough so that the top of the root ball is equal with the ground level.
Loosen the root ball using a small garden spade or by hand. Breaking smaller outer roots can encourage growth into the new soil, but take care to not damage large primary roots.
Place the plant in the hole and ensure that it is situated evenly upright. Use the excavated soil to fill in around the root ball, using your foot to pack it in firmly. Thoroughly soak with a hose as you fill in the dirt. Take great care to not leave any gaps or air spaces around the root ball as this could kill the plant.
A 2-4 inch layer of mulch is strongly recommended to help retain moisture and discourage weed growth. Apply mulch over the entire planting area but keep away from the stems or trunk by a few inches. Ensure that the plant and surrounding soil is completely soaked with water.
To ensure the proper nutrients are available for the life of your Blue Cadet Hosta, our proprietary Perfect Plants Special Blend Soil and a once yearly application of Nutricote Total 360 Fertilizer are great considerations for your new plants!
A great shrub for shady locations. Planted under my oak trees and fits perfectly. Took a whole year for them to establish and start growing but now the hostas are looking gorgeous!
Perfect Plants –
Yay! They love shade and moist soil. Keep those hostas looking blue!
Growing our own plants and trees helps to ensure we ship you the best quality plants that are free of pests and diseases.
Tangela –
Great value. Easy purchase.
Mary Bales –
A great shrub for shady locations. Planted under my oak trees and fits perfectly. Took a whole year for them to establish and start growing but now the hostas are looking gorgeous!
Perfect Plants –
Yay! They love shade and moist soil. Keep those hostas looking blue!