Hosta Virginia Reel Myosotis Some of our Zone 6

Some of our Zone 6 customers claim to be growing purple shamrock successfully through their winters

The flower buds open steadily from mid-January to early April

each prominently highlighted by silver leaf veins

000' to as high as 13

Despite being native to swamps

Hosta Virginia Reel Myosotis Some of our Zone 6Some hostas become legendary by being grown in everyone's garden, while other hostas become legendary because no one can get them. Hosta 'Virginia Reel' is the latter. A streaked Hosta 'Virginia Reel' (Hosta 'Crepe Suzette' x Hosta 'Riptide') in Judy Springer's Great Falls, Virginia, garden was the star of the 1995 Hosta convention and winner of the Savory Shield Award. I next saw the stable form four years later in Roy Herold's Massachusetts garden,