Hostas U-Z
Hosta 'White Elephant'
Photo Greenhills Hostas
Hosta 'Zounds'
Photo Shady Oaks Nursery
Hosta 'Whirlwind'
Photo Budd Gardens
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Hostas U-Z |
Hosta 'White Elephant' Photo Greenhills Hostas |
Hosta 'Zounds' Photo Shady Oaks Nursery |
Hosta 'Whirlwind' Photo Budd Gardens |
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Description
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to see a larger photo'Ulysses S. Grant' LARGE (26” high by 51” wide.) Leaf Detail: 14” long by 11” wide; blue-green; moderately corrugated and rippled; thick substance. Flowering: very pale lavender flowers on three to four-foot scapes in July. Comments: vase-shaped mound habit; rich blue foliage color; corrugation; rippling; thick substance; Peter Ruh seedling selection; best of Pete’s Presidential Series; anyone who sees this has to have it. $20.00
Photo Q&Z Nursery
'Valley's Glacier' NEW 2012 MEDIUM (14" high by 30" wide.) New sport of 'First Frost', heart-shaped blue leaves with a very wide yellow edge changing to creamy-white margin later in the season. $17.00
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'Vim and Vigor'(Walters Gardens) GIANT (29" high by 72" wide.) Shiny dark green foliage, bluish in spring, thick substance. $20.00
Photo Walters Gardens
'Vulcan' (H. Hansen/Shady Oaks Nursery, Reg. Pending) LARGE (20" high by 40" wide.) This sport of 'Captain Kirk' has creamy-white leaves with dark green margins. Golden-yellow streaks occur along the interior margins where the white and green overlap. 'Vulcan' has a vigorous growth rate for a white-centered hosta. Pale lavender flowers bloom in mid to late summer. Classy! Sun tolerant. $20.00
Photo Walters Gardens
'Wave Runner' LARGE (19” high by 57” wide.) Leaf Detail: Gold margin 12 1/2” long by 8 1/2” wide; chartreuse in the center with a heavily rippled, 1” wide, yellow margin; slightly corrugated; better than average substance. Flowering: purple flowers in July on 30” scapes. Comments: variegated sport of ‘Squash Casserole’ from John Van Ostrand of Hawthorn Woods, IL; combines the rippled margins and vigor of its mother plant with a touch of variegation. $20.00
Photo Q&Z Nursery
'Wheee!' NEW 2012 MEDIUM (18" high by 30" wide.) Extremely ruffled, cream colored margins extend from the tip of each green leaf all the way down the petiole to the crown. The leaves of this medium sized hosta are of excellent substance, making them slug resistant in the landscape. Light lavender flowers appear atop purple scapes in midsummer. Intro Year: 2011 Breeder: B. Meyer. $17.00
Photo Carol Brashear
Photo Carol Brashear
'Whirlwind' (Kulpa 88) MEDIUM (19" high by 40" wide.) Thick, pale chartreuse becoming ivory to bright yellow then fading to drab green late, widely and irregularly margined dark olive-green with celadon streaking, strongly veined, slightly dimpled, twisted, recurved at the tip. Some morning sun is beneficial. Vigorous. Sun tolerant. Slug resistant. $17.00
Photo Budd Gardens
'White Elephant' LARGE (20" high by 50" wide.) (Franks 2007) (Sport of ‘White Christmas’) This hosta is an exciting introduction. It may be the large, fast growing, white-centered hosta for which we all have been waiting. Large, bright white leaves with a narrow dark green margin have lighter green streaks sandwiched in between. Light lavender flowers in July. Appreciates morning sun and ample water. $25.00
Photo Green Hill Hostas
'Wide Brim' (Aden 79) LARGE 18" high by 45" wide. Good substance, dark green with a blue cast, widely and irregularly margined pale yellow to cream with streaks jetting to the midrib, dimpled; edge flat to slightly folded, widely oval with a cuspidate tip. Site in good light to filtered shade for best colours. Wide leaf margin. Sun tolerant and slug resistant. $17.00
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'Winter Snow' (Pine Forest Gardens) GIANT (33" high by 82" wide.) Leaf blade 16" by 14". Good substance, chartreuse to old-gold, misted, streaked and striped cream and white, irregularly margined pure white, prominently veined; edge undulate, slightly folded to cupped, widely oval with a cuspidate tip. Site in morning sun with plenty of moisture. A colourful addition to the many sports of 'Sum and Substance.' Sun tolerant. Slug resistant. $17.00
Photo Greenhills Hostas
'Winter Warrior'(G.R. Goodwin, 2005) LARGE (19" high by 40" wide.) This dark green rounded leaves of 'Winter Warrior' are margined with a lightly rippled wide creamy-white margin. Near white flowers with striped lavender intervening open in early summer. $17.00
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'Yankee Blue' LARGE (20" high by 50" wide.) This vigorously growing blue hosta forms a full, symmetrical, wide mound that really makes a statement in the landscape. The elongated wedge-shaped leaves with wavy margins hold their blue color well into summer, eventually turning blue-green late in the season. Near-white flowers top the clump in midsummer. $17.00
Photo Walters Gardens
'Yesterday's Memories' (Hans Hansen) LARGE (22" high by 48" wide.) Sport from H. 'Squash Casserole'. Exhibiting the same amazing vigor of the parent, forms a 4' wide clump of chartreuse golden leaves surrounded by a contrasting dark green border. The vigorous clumps are topped in midsummer with 20" spikes of light lavender flowers. Slug resistant and sun tolerant. $17.00
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'Zounds' (Aden 78) LARGE (22" high by 50" wide.) Leaves thick, chartreuse turning metallic golden yellow, satiny, strongly corrugated to puckered when mature. Site in good light or filtered shat where it will glow like a beacon. Slug resistant. Sun tolerant. $17.00
Photo Shady Oaks Nursery
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Perennials A-Z | Field Grown Perennials
