Rippled Honey is a cross of ventricosa x plantaginea.
Registry - http://www.hostaregistrar.org/detail.ph ... ed%20Honey
MyHostas - http://www.myhostas.be/db/view/Rippled+Honey
Hosta Library - http://www.hostalibrary.org/r/rippledhoney.html
Rippled Honey is new to my garden this season.
Here it is when it came in.
And here are the flowers in mid-August
Hosta of the Day #4 - Rippled Honey
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Hosta of the Day #4 - Rippled Honey
Ed McHugh, Sicklerville NJ
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
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Re: Hosta of the Day #4 - Rippled Honey
It is interesting that the registry indicates no parentage, and Hugo's database shows it as the improbably cross of ventricosa x plantaginea (where it is nearly impossible to get ventricosa to set seed from another plant's pollen, as apomictic seed production is dominant). The reverse cross is possible, of course.
David
David
Re: Hosta of the Day #4 - Rippled Honey
Mark Zilis' new Field Guide to Hosta lists it as a "Significant Seedling" under plantaginea and ventricosa.
Just a point of interest: I got the plant because of the ventricosa parentage - I thought the striping on the flowers would be a lot darker.
Just a point of interest: I got the plant because of the ventricosa parentage - I thought the striping on the flowers would be a lot darker.
Ed McHugh, Sicklerville NJ
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.