Hostas: should you cut the flower stems?

Question

Hostas look nice until they start flowering. Should these stems be cut?

Answer 1

Yes, if you don't like the flowers, cut them off.  It won't hurt the plant.

Answer 2

It is up to you, It won't hurt your hosta if you cut the stems off. I grow mine because I love to watch the hummingbirds and they are one of the plants that attracts them. Others grow them strictly for landscaping pleasures.

So if you don't like the look whack - a - way:)

Answer 3

You can cut the flowers offf if you want to,it won't hurt the plant.

Answer 4

It doesn’t matter one way or the other.

If you decide you want to save some seeds, you can let the flowers go to seed and save seed to plant next year.

If you are not interested in saving the seeds but enjoy the flowers (as many people do), you can let the Hosta flower and remove spent blooms until the stalk is depleted of buds – then remove the whole stalk.

If you find the flowers of your Hosta unbearable to look at, for any length of time, the flower stalks can be removed as soon as they appear.

For early flowering Hosta, most of us will remove the flower stalks when they begin to brown, after they have flowered but before they go to seed – but for aesthetics only.

Others ignore them completely.

Whichever you choose, your Hosta’s will return each year bigger and better than the year before.