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							  This 
							slow growing 
				hybrid of H. 'Blue Moon' was registered in 1994 by 
							Charles Seaver of Delaware. It forms a large size hosta about 21 inches tall and 60 
							inches wide with 
				heavily corrugated, moderately cupped, shiny foliage. Dense 
				clusters of very pale lavender flowers bloom in late July 
							followed by viable seeds. 
							According to
				
							The Hostapedia by Mark Zilis (2009), "Maturity brought out the intense 
				corrugation, cupping, good blue color, and plastic like 
				substance that were not evident at an earlier age...Every hosta 
				collector should own 'Deep Blue Sea." 
							 
				
				The New Encyclopedia of Hostas by
				Diana 
				Grenfell (2009) states: "Leaves unfurl light gteen soon becoming a superb 
							blue and keeping their color for most of the 
							summer...Exaggeratedly rugose to seersuckered toward 
							central midrib, almost distorting the symmetry of 
							the leaf. Lobes are sometimes twisted behind the 
							petioles."
						 
							 
			   
			 
A Photo Essay article by Steve Chamberlain  in 
			The 
				Hostta Journal (2010 Vol. 41 No. 1) makes comments about 
H. 'Deep Blue Sea', "Charles Seaver registered this 'Blue Moon' seedling in 
1994. My plant was a gift from Charlie at the Hostas in Focus Festival in 1997. 
Early in the season this plant is an intense blue with extreme corrugation. By 
the time it blooms later in the season, the wax has washed off and the leaves 
are dark green and very shiny." 
			  
							 
			  
			  
			  
  
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