Originated
by
Olga Petryszyn
of Indiana and registered by
AHS/G. H. Alley in
2020,
this giant size (34 inches high by 46 inches wide) cultivar is a seedling of H. 'Blue
Betty Lou' ×
H. 'Manhattan'.
The foliage is light greenish-blue (119B RHS
Colour Chart) in
color with broadly ovate leaves that are slightly
cupped, heavily corrugated with deeply impressed veins
and cuspidate leaf tips. They have a glaucous bloom on
both the top and bottom of the leaf blade.
Near white
flowers with pale lavender interior stripes and
translucent margins on alternate petals bloom from June
into July. The pale blue scapes are 30 to 40 inches tall
and they bear viable seeds in medium to dark green pods. The
registration materials state: "...Large upright
clump of heavily puckered, frosty blue-green leaves with
nicely rippled margins. Clump is 40" dia x 34" tall in
the registrant's western Missouri garden (zone 6a) with
fair amount of afternoon sun...turns slightly shiny
greyish green (189A RHS
Colour Chart) after wax melts off."
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