Hosta | Craig's Temptation |
Status | registered |
Originator(s) | Japan/Jack Craig & Georges Schenk/Pete Ruh 2002 |
Origin | venusta hybrid |
Size category | small |
Plant height x width | 28x80 cm (11x31 in.) |
Leaf length x width | 11x7 cm (4x3 in.) |
Vein pairs | 6-7 |
Leaf color | dark green |
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Scape height | 50 cm (20 in.) |
Flower | purple,bell |
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Flowering period | July |
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Info | Small. Nicely spreading ground cover. All green foliage. Lavender pink blooms in July and August. Rapid grower. Found growing on a tree in a temple garden in Kyoto, Japan in 1968. Dark green lance shaped, small leaves. An abundance of purple flower. A rapid growing small green plant with lavender flowers. Small, green leaves with lovely lavendar-pink flowers, rapid grower. Beautiful tiny flowers. Small green leaves make a neat clump. Probably a venusta hybrid. Purple flowers. |
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Progeny | 'Michael's Legacy' = venusta 'Porter' x PP |