Hosta 'Crinoline Petticoats'
 

A hybrid of H. 'Sieboldiana' x H. 'Tokudama', this cultivar was registered by Clarence Soules of Indiana in 1990. It forms a giant size mound 28 inches in height by 75 inches wide. The leaves are very broadly ovate, rippled, heavily corrugated with thick substance. Near white flowers bloom from mid-June into July.

"Plant is a huge, very rugose H. 'Sieboldiana' form plant with scapes slightly taller than the form."

 

A catalog advertisement from Soules Garden in Indiana in The Hosta Journal (1991 Vol. 22 No. 2) offered the following Marge and Clarence Soules introductions:  'Blue Plisse' - $75.00, 'Crinolin Petticoats' - $75.00, 'Kong' - $75.00, 'Lime Krinkles' - $100.00, 'Placemat' - $100.00, 'Sunami' - $50 and "Special Price Fall 1991 -- Tissue culture release 'Fantastic'..." - $125.00.





   

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