Hosta | Sails Ho |
Status | registered |
Originator(s) | Ran Lydell 1995 |
Origin | 'Krossa Regal' sport |
Size category | |
Plant height x width | 30x60 cm (12x24 in.) |
Leaf length x width | 18x11 cm (7x4 in.) |
Vein pairs | 8-9 |
Leaf color | (white>greenish-white),green edge |
Variegation | medio, viridescent |
Leaf | heavy, very twisted, wavy |
Petiole | |
Scape | blue-green |
Scape height | 75 cm (30 in.) |
Flower | bell |
Flower length | 4.5 cm (1.8 in.) |
Fragrant | |
Flowering period | July - August |
Fertile | no |
Pod | |
Ploidy | |
Patents | |
Info | Streaked breeder:* Sterile? Ran Lydell's 'Sails Ho' is a plant that always gets the star treatment first in the spring. When most hostas are just a promise of the colors they will soon show, 'Sails Ho' is the prettiest thing in the garden when the hostas are unfurling. 'Sails Ho' is a stable form of a streaked 'Krossa Regal' found by Pete Ruh. Rarely offered by any nurseries. It forms a fairly large plant that's about 2/3 the size of 'Krossa Regal'. Soon after unfurling the glorious nearly pure white centers slowly begin to be covered in tiny specks of green like the reverse of a snowfall as the spring wears on. |
Sports | 'Dress White' sport/wg 'Yellow Sails' sport/os |
Progeny | |