A
tissue culture sport of H. 'Sum and
Substance', this cultivar was introduced for sale by
Mark Zilis of Illinois and Q&Z Nursery in
2003. It forms a giant size (32 inches high
by 80 inches wide)
mound of broadly ovate, moderately corrugated foliage. The
moderately wavy, slightly corrugated leaves are medium
to dark green with a golden yellow marginal variegation.
Medium
lavender flowers open from late July into August on scapes up to 4
feet tall followed by viable seeds.
The
registration materials state: "...much wider gold
margin than other similar cultivars."
According to
The Hostapedia by Mark Zilis (2009), "I had already developed 'Sum It Up' when I found another sport of 'Sum and Substance' at my
nursery. From the start, it exhibited much wider margins than
'Sum It Up' and 'Lady
Isobel Barnett'."
Q&Z Nursery closed in the fall of 2014.
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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
plants listed but then, their opinions are based on visual observations and interpretations. |
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H.
'Bottom
Line', H. 'Sum of
All' and
H. 'Titanic'. |
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