This
cultivar is a large size (22
inches high by 48 inches wide) sport of H. 'Fragrant
Bouquet' with pale green to
chartreuse colored leaves that have a creamy yellow
streaked variegation. As its name implies, it has large,
very pale lavender, fragrant flowers from August into
September and usually does not set viable seeds.
An article by Warren I. Pollock in
The
Hosta Journal (1998 Vol. 29 No. 1) discusses the fact
that many variegated hosta cultivars are considered "unstable. " This means that
all or individual divisions of the clump may revert to either a solid color or
other form of variegation. You may end up suddenly have a single colored hosta
or you will need to separate a solid colored division from the clump. Three
nurseries were cited who include notations about "unstable " hostas. The
following is a composite list of those cultivars mentioned:
Pollock stated, "...there are scores and scores, maybe
hundreds and hundreds, of other unstable hostas..."
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