
Hosta "Bill Dress's Blue" review
Seedling from one of the very first AHS seed exchanges. Has been around in rock gardening culture for years and years. A slightly stoloniferous blue mini that makes a platter-shaped clump. Lavender flowers. Fertile. This is a vigorous, ground-hugging miniature. It emerges blue and becomes blue-green by midsummer. This plant is smaller and more vigorous than Hosta 'Blue Moon' and Hosta 'Blue lce', although not quite as blue. The leaf has a pronounced heart shape and the scapes are straight and floriferous with light lavender blooms. A seedling of unknown parentage.
Hosta "Bill Dress's Blue" information:
Size Category | mini |
Hosta height x width | 7x23 cm (3x9 in.) inches |
Leaf length x width | 7x5 cm (3x2 in.) inches |
Vein pairs | 6 |
Leaf color | |
Variegation | |
Leaf type | ovate, flat base |
Petiole | ovate, flat base |
Scape | green |
Scape height | 45 cm (18 in.) |
Flower | lavender,striped,bell |
Fragrant | |
Flower length | 4 cm (1.6 in.) |
Flowering period | July |
Fertile | yes |
Pod | |
Ploidy | |
Patents | |
Sports | 'Country Mouse' sport/bw |
Progeny | 'Little Green Griffonage' seedling |