Hosta 'Le Géant Beaupré'
 

Originated by Jocelyne Bastille of Aux Mille Hostas in Canada, this non-registered cultivar is a sport of H. 'Don Quixote'. The foliage is green, slightly rippled, ovate in shape and has petioles with red dots. It forms a medium size (15 inches high by 40 inches wide) clump and bears pale purple flowers in August.

 


The Giant from (the Canadian town of) Beaupré.


Beaupré is a town in the Canadian province of Quebec, located along the Saint Lawrence River. Édouard Beaupré was a circus and freak show giant, wrestler, strongman, and a star in Barnum and Bailey's circus.

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