Hosta 'Frances Williams' 23W29 Hosta R3-
Hosta 'Frances Williams' 23W29 Hosta R3- (yellow margins) Large Hosta, Mature plant size: 24x48in., lavender, USDA Hardiness Zone 3, Michigan Bloom Month -, In Garden Bed R3 for 324 DAYS (KBK,). Planted in 2022.
Missouri Botanical Garden: Frances Williams' is a popular cultivar that features very large blue-green leaves variegated with irregular greenish-yellow margins. It was discovered by breeder Frances Williams in the mid-1930s. It is a clump-forming perennial that typically matures in a spreading mound to 24" tall, but spreads over time to 48-60" wide. Thick, puckered, cupped, wide-oval to rounded leaves (to 12” long and 11” wide) have distinctive veining, cuspidate tips and cordate lobes. Leaves are deep blue-green in the center with wide but irregular greenish-yellow margins. Funnel-shaped, mostly white flowers appear in early to mid summer in racemes rising to 30" tall. Flowers often have lilac hues.
Photo by F.D.Richards, SE Michigan. Link to additional photos of this plant from 2022, 23:
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Hosta 'Frances Williams' 23W29 Hosta R3-
Hosta 'Frances Williams' 23W29 Hosta R3- (yellow margins) Large Hosta, Mature plant size: 24x48in., lavender, USDA Hardiness Zone 3, Michigan Bloom Month -, In Garden Bed R3 for 324 DAYS (KBK,). Planted in 2022.
Missouri Botanical Garden: Frances Williams' is a popular cultivar that features very large blue-green leaves variegated with irregular greenish-yellow margins. It was discovered by breeder Frances Williams in the mid-1930s. It is a clump-forming perennial that typically matures in a spreading mound to 24" tall, but spreads over time to 48-60" wide. Thick, puckered, cupped, wide-oval to rounded leaves (to 12” long and 11” wide) have distinctive veining, cuspidate tips and cordate lobes. Leaves are deep blue-green in the center with wide but irregular greenish-yellow margins. Funnel-shaped, mostly white flowers appear in early to mid summer in racemes rising to 30" tall. Flowers often have lilac hues.
Photo by F.D.Richards, SE Michigan. Link to additional photos of this plant from 2022, 23:
www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=50697352%40N00&sort=da...
#Michigan, #49236, #usdaZone6, #Perennial, #FrancesWilliams, #Hosta, #Shade, #23W29