Humpback Whale Giant Hosta Lily – 1 Gallon Pot

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 3a-9b  Find Your Zone

Plant Type:  Perennial

Flower Color:  White

Flower Size:  2″ 

Flowering Period:  Summer

Flower Type:  Trumpet-shape clustered on tall stalks

Fragrant Flowers:  NA

Foliage Color:  Blue in spring turning Green by Summer

Fragrant Foliage:  NA

Berries:  NA

Berry Color:  NA

Attracts:  Visual Attention, Butterflies, Hummingbirds

Resistances:  Disease, Drought, Heat, Insect, Rabbit, Deep Shade, Slug

 Bred and introduced by the late Mildred Seaver, known as the “Queen of Hostas,” the ‘Humpback Whale’ Hosta forming a truly massive 3 feet tall by 7 feet wide mound at maturity. Large, heart-shape, blue-green leaves develop with a unique hump in the middle that forces the end of the leaf to point downwards. By summer the leaves will have turned a rich ocean green at which time sturdy flower stems bearing abundant  abundant near-white flowers will appear to feed the hummingbirds. One of the largest of the hostas in our gardens, rivaling ‘Empress Wu’, anyone with some shade and enough space has got to have one of these impressive giants in their garden!

Mildred Seaver was known in hosta circles as the “Queen Bee” or “Queen of Hostas.” She was one of the founding members of the New England Hosta Society. She was the only living person ever featured on the cover of The Hosta Journal (a magazine of the American Hosta Society) in the Spring of 1986. She was also the first winner of the Eunice Fischer Distinguished Hybridizer Merit Award in 2006. According to her daughter, Muriel, Mildred Seaver’s philosophy on life was that “every day comes with the chance of surprise and a possible miracle.” An incredible attitude to have considering that she lived through the Great Depression. Mildred lived her life with an irrepressible zeal that affected everyone who met her. Mildred left this world on March 6, 2011 at the age of 98.