The gold and variegated Tricyrtis go well with plain blue medium height Hosta. While in Japan, I visited specialty nurseries like Gotemba Nursery. Here Mr. Kenji Watanabe had collected by far, the most remarkable collection of tricyrtis imaginable. Here too, I found bronze leaved varieties and even a double flowered form. Tricyrtis can be propagated by root cuttings, stem cuttings, or division.
Spring is the best time to divide and early summer the best time to root cuttings.
I have done fall root cuttings with good success. Despite its odd common name, Tricyrtis offer a last hurrah in the garden- a jewel forgotten and then found again in the settling fall garden. White flowers are spotted purple. Flowers are smaller than most species. Tricyrtis hirta The most common form, upright stems to 2' carry hairy leaves, White flowers heavily speckled purple.