Hosta 'High School Colors'

 

Registered by Frank Nyikos of Walnut Grove Nursery in Indiana in 2019, this cultivar is a medium size (15 inches high by 36 inches wide) seedling of H. 'Galaxy'. It has medium green foliage with a variable golden-yellow marginal variegation. The leaves are slightly rippled at the margins, dull on top, ovate, slightly cupped, slightly twisted and slightly corrugated.

Some of its bell-shaped flowers are pinkish lavender with deeper colored veins while others are cream white with pale lavender stripes. They bloom from late June into July on reddish green scapes 26 to 30 inches tall. It sets viable seed in green pods with reddish highlights.

The registration materials state: "...Variable width golden yellow margin that can send shadowy coloration to the veins...margins color deepens as the season progresses."


   

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