![](../pictures/velvet-moon.jpg) Hans Hansen of Minnesota registered this
medium to large size cultivar in 2003 as a sport of H. 'Abiqua Moonbeam'. It has pale lavender flowers that begin blooming in
mid-July.
According to
The Hosta Handbook by Mark Zilis (2000), "The wider margins set
'Velvet Moon' apart from 'Abiqua Moonbeam', but it comes very
close to Van
Wade's 'Gemini Moon'."
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