A cultivar of unidentified parentage, this hosta was registered by
Pierre Bennerup of Connecticut in 2000. It is a medium size plant about
11 inches high with a spread of around 32 inches. The
leaves are dark green with streaked variegation in the
middle. The are ovate, wavy, slightly cupped and
slightly corrugated. Pale lavender flowers bloom from
June into July.
An article about H.
'Sheila Macqueen' by Warren I. Pollock in
The
Hosta Journal (2002 Vol. 33 No. 1) states that, "This
hosta was registered as H. 'Sheila Maqueen'...However, the spelling of the
family name is incorrect...The correct spelling is Macqueen...The
correction has been made in the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum registry (of
The American Hosta Society )...Sheila Macqueen is a world-renowned English
floral arranger who lives in Herfordshire, U.K....one of the first professional
flower arrangers to use hosta leaves...there is a permanent tribute at Long
Branch in Millwood, Virginia, called "The Sheila Macqueen Gardens at Historic
Long Branch"..."
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