PURPLE LADY FINGER

Hosta `Purple Lady Finger', purple(flowers DO NOT OPEN), 16-18", July-September. SMALL. Mounds 15"high by 24"wide. Leaves 10"long by 2"wide(5-6vp). The flowers on this are all the hype! They do not open! So, that makes them appear as "lady-finger firecrackers". Actually makes for a nicely tidy hosta in bloom. A collector's kinda hosta as its leaves are medium-dark green and you have to wait for the excitement to happen in late summer. The longest blooming hosta that I can think of. Maybe because the blooms never really open so that gives it more power to just "hang out on a limb(scape)". (savory, 1982. H.longissima x H.clausa)