Plant: Royal Standard - Hosta - Large
Hosta · Hosta 'Royal Standard'
$16.00
Size: 1 gal
Light
Part Shade
Bloom
SummerFall
More about this plant
A large hosta known for fragrant white tubular flowers that open from midsummer to early fall, scented most strongly in the evening. The foliage mound is about 26 inches tall and 4 to 5 feet wide, with flower scapes reaching 35 to 40 inches. It grows in part to full shade in zones 3 to 9.
- Part Shade
- Blooms in summer, fall
- Hardy in USDA zones 3-9
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
A large hosta known for fragrant white tubular flowers that open from midsummer to early fall, scented most strongly in the evening. The foliage mound is about 26 inches tall and 4 to 5 feet wide, with flower scapes reaching 35 to 40 inches. It grows in part to full shade in zones 3 to 9.
- Flowers
- Fragrant white tubular flowers, strongest in the evening, from midsummer into early fall on scapes about 35 to 40 inches tall.
- Fruit
- Small loculicidal capsules that split open at maturity in fall, releasing small, flat, winged black seeds.
- Light
- Dappled/Filtered Light
- Pruning
- No pruning is needed. The foliage dies back in late fall or winter and the dead leaves can be removed then. Divide clumps every 3 to 5 years in early spring as the leaves emerge.
- Native range
- The genus is native to the Russian Far East, China, Japan and Korea; named cultivars are garden selections.
