Grand Master Hosta

Other Names: Plantain Lily, Funkia

Description:

This gorgeous variety has large leaves that are green with a wide yellow margin that turns more white later in the season; provides beautiful texture and contrast to other plants; lavender spikes of flowers on tall scapes in mid-summer

Ornamental Features:

Grand Master Hosta features dainty spikes of lavender tubular flowers rising above the foliage in mid summer. It's attractive textured heart-shaped leaves remain green in colour with distinctive yellow edges and tinges of white throughout the season. The fruit is not ornamentally significant.

Landscape Attributes:

Grand Master Hosta is a dense herbaceous perennial with tall flower stalks held atop a low mound of foliage. Its relatively coarse texture can be used to stand it apart from other garden plants with finer foliage.

This is a relatively low maintenance perennial, and is best cleaned up in early spring before it resumes active growth for the season. Gardeners should be aware of the following characteristic(s) that may warrant special consideration;

• Insects

Grand Master Hosta is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• General Garden Use
• Mass Planting
• Groundcover
• Border Edging

Plant Characteristics:

Grand Master Hosta will grow to be about 16 inches tall at maturity extending to 24 inches tall with the flowers, with a spread of 4 feet. Its foliage tends to remain dense right to the ground, not requiring facer plants in front. It grows at a slow rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 10 years.

This perennial does best in partial shade to shade. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions, and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This plant can be propagated by division.

This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.