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Posted: May 7, 2019 at 4:18 PM
Hosta 'Great Expectations'
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Plant Type: Hostas

This sport of H. Sieboldiana ‘Elegans’ from England has a fabulous cream center (emerging gold in early spring), surrounded by a dramatic, wide blue-green edge, sure to brighten any garden. The medium-sized clump, is topped with near-white flowers in early summer. H. ‘Great Expectations’ needs morning sun or very open shade to grow properly.

Lives up to its name! A slow grower, but well worth the wait. Thick, puckered, broadly ovate leaves are slug resistant. Wide, irregular, blue-green margins surround an ever-changing center; starts out chartreuse in the spring, turns to yellow, then to creamy yellow, and finally to white (colors vary with light levels). Fern green streaks are painted between the margin and center of each leaf; every leaf is unique. Dense masses of white flowers are displayed just above the foliage on 24″ scapes in early to midsummer.

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Flower Color

White

Foliage Color

Variegated

Plant Spread

24"

Good Companions

Other hosta and shade loving plants

Plant Height

20"

Scape Height

24"

Hardness Zone

3-9

Soil Moisture

Moist, Rich, Organic

Characteristics & Attributes

Attributes

Very slow growing

Bloom Time

Early to mid summer

Critter Resistance

Resistance to slugs, rabbits

Exposure

Part to full shade

Growth Rate

Slow

Seasonal Interests

Summer