H. ‘Justice’

Overview

'Justice' (2003) is a sport of H. nigrescens 'Elatior', a plain green plant whose record notes a tall bloom scape. The sport keeps the tall flowers, is registered as a much wider plant and adds variegation: medium green leaves misted and streaked with creamy yellow and white, more gold in spring according to the seasonal note. The registrant sums it up as a large mound of heavily variegated foliage. Leaves are broadly ovate, slightly shiny on top with a thin glaucous bloom below.

In the Garden

The record lists an upright plant with a slow growth rate, registered at 60 in (152.4 cm) across and 24 in high, and scapes of 36 to 60 in.

How it compares

'Elatior', the plain green parent, is registered at 34 by 14.5 in with a single 57 in scape figure and the note "tall bloom scape".

'Total Justice' (2014) is a stable sport of 'Justice' with a more defined pattern: a center that opens creamy yellow and turns white, edged dark green, on an upright clump of 31.5 by 19.625 in.

'Quesadilla' (2010), a sport of 'Guacamole', is another streaked plant of the same show class. Its record describes a mound of 45 by 22 in, with yellow streaks early in the season and white ones later, and a fast growth rate where 'Justice' is slow. Pick 'Quesadilla' if later, pure white flowers (August into September) matter more than tall scapes; 'Justice' has scapes of 36 to 60 in against 30 in.

Flowers and other notes

Near-white flowers from mid-July to early August are on record; how stable the streaking is from division to division is not. For general growing, see our hosta care guide.

Sources: AHS Registry records for 'Justice' (#2955), 'Elatior' (#1575), 'Total Justice' (#5777) and 'Quesadilla' (#4532), hostaregistrar.org.