This small size (9 inches high) hosta was discovered by
Clarence (C.H.) Falstad, III
and
registered by
Walters Gardens,
Inc. of Michigan in 1997 and is a
tissue culture sport of H. 'Hadspen Blue'. It has a blue-green center with white marginal
variegation. The plant has a slow growth rate in most
gardens. Pale lavender flowers are borne from late July into August.
'Aristocrat' was granted U.S. Plant
Patent 11,286 in 2000. According to the application, "The center
starts out about a Green 141 B and becomes more blue to a 122 A or
bluer."
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