H. ‘Bridgeville’

Overview

P. Ruh registered 'Bridgeville' in 1999, and its parentage is listed as unknown. The leaf is dark green, 8 in by 4.13 in with 11 vein pairs. The margin is narrow, 0.38 in, and recorded as light green to yellow with heavy ripples. The underside is very shiny. The registration records deep purple, striped bell flowers from a clump grown in Chesterland, Ohio, and light green seed pods.

In the Garden

Registered at 27 in across and 13 in high, the clump is upright and grows at a moderate rate. Its light green scapes are registered at 37 to 40 in, against a clump height of 13 in.

How it compares

'Krossa Broad Band' looks similar at a glance, a narrow edge on a dark leaf of almost the same size (8.5 in by 4.5 in), but the center is dark blue-green and the 0.25 to 0.5 in margin is chartreuse rather than rippled light green to yellow. Its clump is about the same, 25 in by 15 in, and its pale violet flowers sit on 24 in scapes. Pick it if blue in the leaf matters more than flower color; 'Bridgeville' has the deep purple flowers, on scapes of 37 to 40 in against 24 in, but a dark green center with no blue.

'Handy Hatfield' has a medium green center with a medium gold margin of 1.5 in, four times as wide, on a 10 in by 6 in leaf, with a clump registered at 20 in high and 36 in across. Pick it if a broad gold margin matters more than flower color; its flowers are lavender, while 'Bridgeville' has the deep purple ones but only a thin edge.

Flowers and other notes

No bloom dates are on file, only the Chesterland, Ohio, location. For general planting and slug control, our hosta care guide covers what the record does not.

Sources: AHS Registry records for 'Bridgeville' (#798), 'Krossa Broad Band' (#3107) and 'Handy Hatfield' (#2433), hostaregistrar.org.