‘Calm before the Storm’

Description

(Solberg 2023) – (48/49 Best X (‘Sun Shower’ X Designer Genes’)) – Medium. Do you know of a yellow hosta that turns blue? That starts out sunny and then becomes stormy? Well, this one does! Its broad leaves emerge bright yellow with a little white wax frosting. Purple fills the wide petiole and extends up toward the middle of the leaf and fans out at the leaf base.  In weeks the yellow starts to become a unique blue-green emulsion, more pronounced in shade.  Known for years as 44B this hosta is the backbone of my newest red-petioled hostas. Its H. sieboldiana heritage is what gives the cupping and puckering to ‘Ruby Earrings’. Great for hybridizing but also a hosta you will return to look at over and over again, all season long.