Sagae may be a nice choice for you.. Sugar and Cream is a taller "green and white" that grows well.

How about the chartreus colors, like 'Gold Regal' (maybe not tall enough) or 'Sum and Substance'
or any sports of that one, like 'Sum of All' (a neat olive green with chartreus margins) or "Titanic" with a very
similar look to SOA? Or 'Lady Isobel Barnett', a personal favorite of mine!

Nice of you to offer her help in deciding about plantings and buidling those beds! I could use a 'brother' like you! :O)

No hosta garden's complete without Krossa Regal, Regal Splendour, and perhaps Royal Standard. Elatior also comes to mind. All are upright, tall, vigorous, and gorgeous.

How much room does your sis have? I think any of these: Blue Angel, Elegans, Blue Mammoth, and Blue Umbrellas, some of which aren't at all blue, would also suit the bill.

Plus, what about golds & greens against the blue of the house?
Sun Power.
Abba Dabba Do.
Atlantis.
Sagae.
Liberty.

The list goes on.
Someone else's turn....

Digs.

I don't know if you're interested in softening the bed walls or not - if you are, "Night Before Christmas" (or others) planted close to the edge would sort of cascade over it. Plantaginea with it's glossy light green leaves and fragrant flowers would be nice.

So many choices :) Love to see pics when you're done.

June

I think you need something tall - go with Sagae or Regal Splendor.

Sagae in center of photo

Teresa

Thanks folks!

So many plants ....

How much room does your sis have?

Good question. The beds look fairly big right now but only because they're empty. LOL Both beds are kinda cresent moon shaped. If I remember correctly, the larger bed is about 19 ft long & about 4ft deep [from bed wall to house wall] at its deepest. The other bed is same depth but about 14 ft long.

I'm thinking of have hostas as a bit of a backdrop with some of the colorful heucheras in front of them. Not planning on too much in the way of flowering annuals & such as I know sis will not feel like deadheading. [Actually had a pic/diagram I had made up a while ago w/ my ideas but apparently lost it. *sigh*]

Made up 2 sketchy diagrams. Any thoughts? [One goal is low maintainence. Sis is not one to spend a lot of time playing in the dirt.] The grey block is the landing and steps from one of her front doors. The other door is to the right of the right raised bed. The garage and driveway are on that side. The landing shown has 2 metal ... columns I guess would be the best word. The clematises indicated in the diagram would be trained to climb up them.

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This 2nd pic is very similar. There was an old decaying cement sidewalk running between the raised bed to the right of the steps and a shrub. We tore that out. I mentioned to my sis that instead of letting grass grow back, she might consider heavily mulching the area and then perhaps just have a few smaller plants in front of the raised beds.

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HI,

For the large hosta, I would put something tall and gold there. Every morning I drive by a house with tall gold hosta near the door and they really catch my eye- haven't driven off the road yet.

How about Gold Regal? Of course the green and white would look good too - I like the Sagae and Night Before Christmas suggestions. There are so many possibilities.

The smaller hosta depend on the choice of the larger. If you go with a gold, perhaps Touch of Class would like nice there. It would pick up the gold and blue. If you go with the variegated hosta for the large, maybe here you could add some gold.

M-A