Hosta Virginia Reel Spring ephemerals In our trials

In our trials

After severe winters

The giant clumps of Hosta 'Big Mama' are topped with pure white flowers in early summer on 4' tall scapes

and once established is almost impossible to eradicate

narrow green leaves that are heavily textured with prominent

Hosta Virginia Reel Spring ephemerals In our trialsSome 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,