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Posted: January 21, 2023 at 2:27 PM
Hosta 'Plum Delicious'
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Plant Type: Hostas

This is a better, enhanced version of H. ‘Plum Pudding’. Plum Delicious has the same thick leaves on red petioles but the leaves are blue. Leaves are ruffled and held on plum-red petioles. Pale purple flowers on purple scapes in late summer. This is one of the newest blue hosta on red petioles. Medium size.

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Flower Color

Pale purple

Foliage Color

Blue

Plant Spread

24"

Good Companions

Other shade loving plants.

Plant Height

16"

Scape Height

—

Hardness Zone

3

Soil Moisture

Moist and highly organic

Characteristics & Attributes

Attributes

Red petiole. This seedling of the highly popular, 'Plum Pudding', has the plum red petioles on both the front and back, extending up into the intensely colored blue ruffled leaves. Really a blue 'Plum Pudding'.

Bloom Time

Late summer

Critter Resistance

Rabbits

Exposure

Part to full shade

Growth Rate

Moderate

Seasonal Interests

spring/summer