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Hosta Descriptions and Leaves - B
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Babbling Brook
Babbling Brook
Large
Leaves: 14" x 11"
Flowers: pale purple
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Baby Blue

Baby Blue
Small
Leaves: small, good blue
Flowers: lavender
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Baby Blue Eyes
Dwarf
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baby bunting
Baby Bunting
Dwarf
Leaves: 2¾" x 2½", almost round, blue/green
Flowers: pale lavender in early summer
Parentage: Rough Waters hybrid
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Baby Kim
Dwarf
Flowers: lavender-purple
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Ballerina
Ballerina
Small
Leaves: 5" x 2"
Flowers: white
Parentage: venusta hybrid
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Banana Boat Banana Boat
Medium

Leaves: 6" x 4½"
Flowers: violet

Parentage: Reversed
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Banana Muffins
Large
Leaves: x 4½"
Flowers: pale lavender
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Band of Gold
Band of Gold
Large
Leaves: 10¼" x 8¾"
Flowers: white
Parentage: Dorothy x hypoleuca
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banyais dancing girl
Banyai's Dancing Girl
Small

Leaves: 4" x 3"
Flowers: lavender, bell-shaped
Parentage: Blue Boy hybrid
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Barbara
Barbara
Small
Leaves: 3¾ x 2½"
Flowers: pale lavender
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Barbara Ann Barbara Ann
Large
Leaves: puckered, blue, wide white margins. Sport of h. sieboldiana 'Elegans'
Flowers: ivory
Parentage: sport of Elegans
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£8.00
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Barbara May
Medium
Leaves: 8 x 5½"
Flowers: pale lavender
Parentage: (pycnophylla x Harvest Dandy) x (Blue Arrow x Sea Fire)
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Barney Fife
Small
Leaves: 7 x 3"
Flowers: pinkish-lavender
Parentage: August Moon x Tardiflora
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Beauty Little Blue
Beauty Little Blue
Small
Flowers: lavender
Parentage: Blue Cadet x clausa normalis
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beauty substance
Beauty Substance
Giant
Leaves: 16" x 14", green centred with gold margins
Flowers: pale lavender. h. 'Sum and Substance' sport
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£8.00
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Beckoning
Large
Leaves:
13" x 11", center lutescence - arrives late
Flowers: near white
Parentage: sport of Blue Angel
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Bedazzled
Bedazzled
Small
Leaves: 6
" x 4"
Flowers: lavender
Parentage: Little Wonder x Love Pat
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Bedford Blue
Medium
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Parentage: hypoleuca x Halcyon
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Bell Bottom Blues
Bell Bottom Blues
Large
Leaves: 8" x 6½"
Flowers: almost white
Parentage: sport of Jewel of the Nile
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bella Bella (Fortunei Obscura)
Medium
Flowers mauve, held well above leaf mound. Grows well.
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£6.00
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Bells of Edinburgh
Bells of Edinburgh
Large
Leaves: 4½" x 3½"
Flowers: violet striped
Parentage: Rim Rock hybrid
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Bennie McRae
Large
Leaves: 11" x 4½"
Flowers:
light lavender, fragrant
Parentage: plantaginea hybrid
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Betchers Blue Betcher's Blue
Small
Leaves: 6
" x 4½"
Flowers: pale lavender

Parentage: Tokudama hybrid
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Betsy King Betsy King
Medium
Leaves: 5" x 2½
Flowers: deep purple

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Bette Davies Eyes
Bette Davies Eyes
Small
Leaves: 8
" x 3"
Flowers: deep purple with white tips
, fragrant
Parentage: Summer Fragrance x Christmas Tree
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Betty
Dwarf
Leaves: 4" x 3"
Flowers:
lavender
Parentage: Nakaiana x ventricosa
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Biddy Blue
Medium
Flowers:
lavender
Parentage: kikutii
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big daddy
Big Daddy
Giant
Leaves: 11" x 9", heart-shaped, very puckered, deep blue
Flowers: bell-shaped ivory
Parentage: sport of Robusta variegated
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Big Djin
Giant
Flowers:
pale lavender
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Big John
Giant
Leaves: 18" x 15"
Flowers:
white
Parentage: Mira Hybrid
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big mama
Big Mama
Giant
Leaves: 18" x 14", puckered, heavy substance, deep blue
Flowers: white in July/August
Parentage: Blue Tiers x Blue Angel
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Big Top
Giant
Leaves: 14
¾" x 13¼"
Flowers:
near white
Parentage: William Lachman x hypoleuca
Bigfoot Bigfoot
Giant
Leaves: 19" x 12"
Flowers: almost white

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Biggie
Giant
Leaves: 9
¾" x 9"
Flowers:
pale lavender
Parentage: Sea Prize x Maekawa
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Bill Brincka
Bill Brincka
Giant
Leaves: 11½" x 8", bright green with gold/green margins, turning ivory
Flowers: lavender, striped in July/August
Parentage: Opipara clonal selection
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£8.00
Bill Dress's Blue
Bill Dress's Blue
Dwarf
Leaves: 2½" x 1¾"
Flowers: lavender
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Bingo
Bingo
Medium
Leaves: 8½" x 6", leave emerge blue and becomes blue-green by midsummer
Flowers: lavender
Parentage: Tokudama Aureonebulosa hybrid
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Birchwood Blue Beauty
Large
Flowers: near white
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Birchwood Gem
Dwarf
Leaves:
2½" x 1¼"
Flowers: white with purple marks
Parentage: Nakaiana hybrid
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birchwood gold
Birchwood Gold
Medium
Leaves: 5" x 4"
Flowers: bell-shaped, lavender. Similar to Birchwood Parky's Gold.
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£4.00
birchwood parkys gold

Birchwood Parky's Gold
Medium
Leaves: 5" x 4", needs sun for best colour
Flowers: prolific, tall, mid-lavender. Rapid grower, protect from slugs and snails.
Parentage: Sunlight hybrid
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Birchwood Ruffled Queen Birchwood Ruffled Queen
Large
Leaves: 12½" x 9"
Flowers: lavender

Parentage: Green Piecrust hybrid
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£6.00 (limited availability)
Bitsy Gold Bitsy Gold
Dwarf
Leaves: 5" x ¾"
Flowers: lavender
Parentage: longissima x yellow seedling
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£8.00
Bizarre

Bizarre
Small
Leaves: 5" x 2¼"
Flowers: dark purple outside, striped lavender & white inside
Parentage: Kabitan hybrid
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£12.00 (limited availability) *New for 2008*

Black Beauty Black Beauty
Large
Leaves: 9½" x 9"
Flowers: deep lavender
Parentage: Green Piecrust hybrid
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Black Hills
Black Hills
Giant
Leaves: 8" x 7", puckered, very dark green
Flowers: lilac in June/July
Parentage: Green Gold hybrid
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£8.00
Blackfoot Blackfoot
Small
Leaves: 6" x 4"
Flowers: pale lavender
Parentage: Kabitan hybrid
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Blaue Wolke
Medium
Flowers:
lavender

Parentage: sieboldiana type
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Blaues Boat Blaues Boot
Giant
Flowers:
pale lavender

Parentage: sieboldiana type
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Blauglut
Small
Leaves: 5¼" x 4½"
Flowers:
lavender
with purple stripes
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Blaugold
Giant
Leaves: 9¼" x 6½"
Flowers:
deep lavender
striped
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Blauspecht
Medium
Leaves: 7¼" x 5¾"
Flowers: light
lavender
striped
Parentage: Tardiana x Tardiana
Blaze of Glory
Blaze of Glory
Large
Leaves: 11½" x 9½"

Flowers: almost white with stripes
, fragrant
Parentage: Pin Stripe hybrid
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Blazing Saddles
Blazing Saddles
Medium
Leaves: 9" x 8", dark green, lightly cupped, with wide creamy-white margins
Flowers: lavender, mid-summer
Parentage: Beatrice seedling x Blue Umbrellas
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£10.00
blond elf
Blonde Elf
Small
Leaves: 2
½" x 1¼"
Flowers: lavender. Compact habit.
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£5.00
blue angel
Blue Angel
Giant

Leaves: 16" x 13", heart-shaped, heavily puckered, blue-green
Flowers: bell-shaped, ivory 
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£6.00
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Blue Arrow
Medium

Leaves: 7" x 4"
Flowers: white
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Blue Beard
Small

Flowers: near white
Parentage: Dorset Blue type
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blue belle
Blue Belle (Tardiana)
Small
Leaves: 5" x 4"
Flowers: lavender, bell-shaped, held on 11"stems.
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Blue Betty Lou
Giant
Leaves: 9" x 8"
Flowers: light lavender
Parentage: True Blue x Gold Regal
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Blue Blazes
Blue Blazes
Giant
Leaves: 13" x 11"
Flowers: deep lavender 

Parentage: Blue Boy x Polly Bishop
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Blue Blush

Blue Blush (Tardiana)
Small
Leaves: 3¾" x 1¼"
Flowers: lavender

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£10.00
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blue boy
Blue Boy
Medium
Leaves: 5" x 4"
Flowers: bell-shaped, near white
Parentage: Nakaiana x sieboldiana
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blue cadet
Blue Cadet
Medium
Leaves: 5" x 4"
Flowers: bell-shaped, lavender in July
Parentage: Tokudama hybrid
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£4.00
Blue Canoe Blue Canoe
Medium
Leaves: 5½" x 3¼"
Flowers: almost white 

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Blue Chip
Blue Chip
Small
Leaves: 2¾" x 2½", almost round, deeply cupped, intense blue-green
Flowers: bell-shaped, ivory with lavender centres in August
Parentage: Dorset Blue x Dorset Blue
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Blue Clown
Blue Clown
Small
Leaves: 6" x 4"
Flowers: white with lavender stripes inside

Parentage: sport of Dorset Blue
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Blue Cup Blue Cup
Large
Flowers: almost white

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Blue Danube Blue Danube (Tardiana)
Small
Leaves: 4" x 4"
Flowers: lavender

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£8.00
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Blue Diamond Blue Diamond (Tardiana)
Small
Leaves: 7½" x 4¾"
Flowers: lavender

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Blue Dimples
Blue Dimples (Tardiana)
Medium
Leaves: 7" x 4", blue/green
Flowers: lavender
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Blue Edger Blue Edger (Tardiana)
Medium
Flowers: lavender

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Blue Eyes
Blue Eyes
Dwarf
Leaves: 2¾" x 2¼
Flowers:
lavender

Parentage: venusta hybrid
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Blue Flame
Blue Flame
Medium
Leaves: 6" x 4½"
Flowers: pale lavender
Parentage: sport of Fragrant Blue
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Blue Haired Lady
Medium
Leaves: 9" x 5"
Flowers:
very pale lavender

Parentage: yingeri x unknown
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Blue Hawaii
Blue Hawaii
Giant
Leaves: 10" x 8"
Flowers:
white
, fragrant
Parentage: (Bengee x Sagae) x Tokudama Aureonebulosa
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blue heart
Blue Heart
Small
Flowers: pale lilac.
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Blue Heaven
Blue Heaven
Small
Leaves: 6" x 1½"
Flowers:
lavender

Parentage: Blue Cadet
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Blue Ice Blue Ice
Dwarf
Leaves: 3½" x 3½"
Flowers:
pale lavender

Parentage: Dorset Blue x Blue Moon
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Blue Impression
Blue Impression
Medium

Leaves: oval, on long stems, blue-green
Flowers: lavender
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Blue Jay Blue Jay
Small
Leaves: 7" x 5"
Flowers:
pale lavender

Parentage: sport of Dorset Blue
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blue lady Blue Lady
Small
Leaves: 5" x 1", lance-shaped, blue-green
Flowers: purple, striped in mid-summer. Upright habit.
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£6.00
blue mammoth

Blue Mammoth
Giant

Leaves: very large, wavy, intense blue
Flowers: lavender
Parentage: sieboldiana type
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