Originated by
Dr. Dick and Jane Ward
of Ohio, this non-registered cultivar is seedling of ‘Breeder’s
Choice'. It is a small size hosta with dark green
foliage that has creamy white streaked variegation.
According to Dr Dick
Ward's acceptance speech for the
2010 Eunice Fisher Distinguished Hybridizer Merit Award,
"My 59th seedling of ‘Breeder’s
Choice' was designated ‘59 BC’ on its tag. I
subsequently gave a division of ’59 BC’ to a friend from
England,
Ian Chrystal. Ian then shared it with
Sandra Bond, a noted British hybridizer, and Sandra
asked Ian to name the resulting stable cultivar. Ian
thought about what was happening in the year 59 BC. It
occurred to him that this was Julius Caesar’s childhood,
so the plant became known as ‘Little
Caesar’. One of the plants I obtained from ‘59 BC’
is ‘Lorelei’." |