This is a follow-up posting to a former entry titled "Hosta with blue flowers". The original entry can be viewed at this link.


On 5-11-12, John Soucek of Avon, Ohio emailed me the following information about his new blue-flowered hosta. (This is the hosta that was photographed last summer by Jerry Bryant.)

"I noticed your article on the flower color with the pics from Jerry Bryant- the hosta pictured will be registered as 'St. Bernadette' and was hybridized by my daughter. The color is true-blue as the sky and so is the scape. My daughter is a graduate of Miami Ohio in Botany and had the same professor as Kevin Vaughan. We are also patenting the plant as well as doing our own tc. The marketing of the plant is up in the air for now. It is fertile both ways."

I'm currently trying to obtain additional photos of this new hybrid, including some of the flowers and scapes.