Hosta "Dick Ward" review
The Dick Ward Hosta is a cultivar sport of Zounds’. It has heart shaped leaves that are a bright, gorgeous yellow-green with dark forest green margins. This is a large variety growing to be 22 inches tall and 40 inches wide. The leaves turn an amazing golden hue as the season progresses. The texture of the leaves is quite leathery and heavily corrugated.
Hosta "Dick Ward" information:
Size Category | medium - large |
Hosta height x width | 60x125 cm (24x49 in.) inches |
Leaf length x width | 28x27 cm (11x11 in.) inches |
Vein pairs | 15-16 |
Leaf color | |
Variegation | medio |
Leaf type | thick, cupped, very corrugated, wavy |
Petiole | thick, cupped, very corrugated, wavy |
Scape | |
Scape height | 75 cm (30 in.) |
Flower | pale lavender |
Fragrant | |
Flower length | |
Flowering period | June - July |
Fertile | yes |
Pod | |
Ploidy | |
Patents | |
Sports | 'Alligator Alley' sport/yb 'Dick's Green Carpet' sport/gg |
Progeny | 'Hotel California' seedling |