Registered by
Joanna
Kovalcsik of Michigan
in
2020,
this medium size (15 inches high by 40 inches wide)
cultivar has light to medium green foliage and is of
unidentified parentage.
The leaves
are flat to heavily ruffled at the margins, ovate to
broadly ovate to nearly round in shape and are slightly twisted, moderately wavy and corrugated. They have deeply
impressed veins and have a silvery, glaucous coating.
White flowers with pale lavender shades bloom in July on
scapes up to 28 inches tall. It bears viable seeds in
silver coated light to medium green pods. The
registration materials state: "Variable leaf shapes
and an overall silvery coating make this sturdy cultivar
unique. Extremely fertile and produces beautiful blue
and yellow progeny. In spring the leaves are heavily
coated with silver. Some coating wears off revealing
light to medium green leaves."
According to Joanna, "H. 'Pebble Creek Silver Sensation' is a volunteer
seedling that I found In 2009, when our hosta club
gathered at Mick and Cathy Hodgson's garden to prepare
it for the convention tour, we were told to remove all
the volunteer seedlings from beneath the hostas. We
could do whatever we wanted with them - keep them or
pitch them. This particular one really wowed me, so I
took it home and planted it in my garden. I had no idea
then just how strongly it would feature in my breeding
program. Silver Sensation has produced fantastic blue
and yellow hybrids, and I'm still using it in crosses 11
years later."
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