Hosta 'Summer Rainbow'
 

Registered by Chris Wilson of Hallson Gardens in Michigan and Dave Bowe of Ohio in 2010, this large size (24 inches high by 40 inches wide) cultivar is a sport of H. 'Winter Snow'. It has dark green foliage with creamy white marginal variegation. The leaves are broadly ovate, moderately corrugated, slightly rippled and slightly shiny on top. Bell shape flowers bloom from mid-July into August on scapes 36 to 40 inches tall.

According to the registration materials: "...wide margined sport related to 'Sum and Substance' with a center changing from chartreuse to dark green...center emerges chartreuse ad turns dark green by June..."


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