This cultivar was registered by
Dr. Charles Purtymun at
Walden West Nursery in Oregon
in 1999 as a sport of H. 'Abiqua
Recluse'.
A large size (22 inches high
by 48 inches wide) plant, it has heavily corrugated, wavy foliage.
The near white flowers are borne from late June into July.
According to
The Hostapedia by Mark Zilis (2009), "The gold leaf center of 'Paradigm' does
not develop spring desiccation burn, making it a good substitute
for 'Borwick Beauty', 'DuPage Delight' and other susceptible
gold-centered cultivars."
The New Encyclopedia of Hostas by
Diana
Grenfell (2009) states: "Initially known as H.
'Abiqua Paradigm'...Increases rapidly."
'Paradigm' was voted the 2007
American Hosta Growers Association "Hosta of the Year".
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An article by
Warren I. Pollack in
The
Hosta Journal (2020 Vol. 51 No. 1) titled
Doppelgänger Hostas: Fancy Name for
Look-alike Hostas, included a long list of hostas
which various hostaphiles, published articles or other sources have
indicated "look" the same. Some of these are, in fact, the same
plant with two or more different names. Others are hostas that vary
in some minor trait which is not immediately discernable to the
casual observer such as seasonal color variations, bloom traits, ploidy, etc. So, as Warren mentions, hostaphiles may differ as to the
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H. 'Paradigm' appeared on two lists in the article.
According to my last algebra class, if A=B and B=C, then A=C so it
would seem that all hostas on the two lists would qualify as
look-alikes.
List #1 - H.
'Brother
Stefan' and
H. 'Paradigm'
List #2 - H.
'Darwin's Standard', H. 'Dick
Ward', H. 'Goldbrook Gayle' and
H. 'Paradigm' |
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9.3 |
2003 #21
2004 #13
2005 #8
2006 #9 |
2007 #7
2008 #13
2009 #6
2010 #5 |
2011 #8
2012 #6
2013 #10
2014 #8 |
2015 #9
2016 #12
2017 #7
2018 #4 |
2019 #9
2020 #11
2021 #11 |
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