Hosta "Blue Cadet" review
The Hosta Blue Cadet is a great durable small blue variety that forms tight mounds. Blue Cadet is a medium size hosta with blue-green heart shaped leaves. Plants have a moderate growth rate and reach about 16 inches in height. Very nice ground cover or border plant. Blue Cadet prefers moist well-drained soil with partial to full shade. Very affordable nice blue hosta.
Hosta "Blue Cadet" information:
| Size Category | small - medium |
| Hosta height x width | 38x95 cm (15x37 in.) inches |
| Leaf length x width | 13x10 cm (5x4 in.) inches |
| Vein pairs | 8-9 |
| Leaf color | |
| Variegation | |
| Leaf type | cordate, tapered point |
| Petiole | cordate, tapered point |
| Scape | leafy |
| Scape height | 50 cm (20 in.) |
| Flower | lavender |
| Fragrant | |
| Flower length | 4.5 cm (1.8 in.) |
| Flowering period | July |
| Fertile | yes |
| Pod | |
| Ploidy | 2-2-2 |
| Patents | |
| Sports | 'A 10 Hut' sport/os 'Baby Doll' sport/yb 'Blue Mouse Ears' sport/bb 'Kiwi Blue Flash' sport/o 'Medal of Honor' sport/yg 'Plebe's Blues' sport/os 'Quinnipiac' sport/bw 'Ravenwood' sport/os 'Special Forces' sport/os 'Toy Soldier' sport/gw |
| Progeny | 'Bashful' seedling 'Beauty Little Blue' = PP x clausa var. normalis 'Blue Cadet Edina' seedling 'Blue Heaven' = PP x 'Aden 355' 'Blueberry Tart' = PP x 'Fall Bouquet' 'Booka' seedling 'Childhood Fantasy' = 'Elvis Lives' x PP 'Daniel' hybrid 'Gold Edger ' selfed 'Kiwi Canoe' selfed 'Lakeside Neat Petite' = venusta x PP 'Lynne' hybrid 'Margie Weissenberger' hybrid 'Pauline Brac' hybrid 'Red Cadet' = 'Riptide' x PP 'Serendipity' = PP x 'Tokudama' 'Stephen' hybrid 'Tet-A-Poo' = venusta x PP 'Tot Tot' = PP x venusta |
