Hosta Long Tail Lights Helicodiceros that emerges gold then ages

that emerges gold then ages to cream

the better it thrives

Myosotis 'Southern Blues' is a 2001 Plant Delights/JLBG introduction that we first met in the late 1990s on a visit to the late garden writer Pam Harper's coastal Virginia garden

(aka: Cardamine diphylla) Dentaria diphylla 'Supermax' is a 2007 Plant Delights/JLBG introduction of a recently renamed large-leaf selection of the Eastern US (Maine to Mississippi) native toothwort with the largest foliage we've seen in the species

Hosta Long Tail Lights Helicodiceros that emerges gold then agesHosta 'Long Tail Lights' is a 2017 Plant Delights Nursery introduction from a cross we made in 1996 involving Hosta kikutii and several other seedlings. The 10" tall x 2' wide clump is composed of wonderfully textured, deeply veined, long, pointed leaves of medium green, edged in a wide golden border that ages to cream. The 2' tall scape of lavender flowers top the clump, starting for us in late August early September.