Hosta 'Mean Joe Green'

 

Registered by Steve and Sarah Zolock of Pennsylvania in 2008, this upright growing, medium size (15 inches high by 30 inches wide) cultivar is a hybrid of H. 'Riptide'. Its leaves are blue-green in color, broadly ovate, slightly corrugated, slightly cupped and slightly shiny on top. Lavender flowers in clusters with dark stripes bloom from mid-July into August on scapes 24 to 27 inches tall followed by dark lavender seed pods.

According to the registration materials: "...dark lavender flower buds, disease and insect resistant, flower head clustered, thick substance...green in fall..."


   

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