

As they gradually unfurled to reveal nondescript, narrow dark green leaves, research revealed them to be Hosta lancifolia, described by one source as “somewhat plain in appearance, but reliable and hardy.” And at the edge of the little plot was a row of plants as tightly packed as the mat of tangled wires in the cable box in my backyard. Scraggly tulips and one or two daffodils showed up. The shrubs I thought were surely dead turned out to be two scrawny (but living) spirea bushes. Spring arrived and the tiny shade garden in front of the house revealed its past. My introduction to hostas came when I was the new owner of a 1920s brick row house in Queens, New York.

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