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A medium-sized hosta with lovely, chalky blue-green, heart-shaped leaves with distinctive creamy yellow margins that whiten as the foliage matures. Violet-blue bell-shaped flowers appear on upright stems from mid to late summer.
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Hosta ‘El Nino’ is a blue-variegated hosta with pale lavender flowers and excellent slug resistance. It is a midsized perennial for partial shade, deer resistant, and suitable for containers, borders, and woodland.
It is a mid-sized hosta with very thick, heart-shaped, blue green leaves with streaky white margins. In midsummer, it has bell-shaped, lavender flowers on 20 in. tall scapes. 'El Nino' grows 1 to 1 1/2 ft. tall and 2 1/2 to 3 ft. wide. United States Plant Patent PP#14,632 issued March 23, 2004.
Hosta 'El Niño' has deep blue-green leaves with white margins and lavender flowers. Learn how to grow, care for, and attract wildlife to this perennial in BBC Gardeners World Magazine.
May 10, 2024 · El Nino is a medium blue green hosta with white edged leaves. It is a sport of H. 'Halcyon.' Hostas are shade tolerant, easy to grow and long-lived. Although they produce flowers held high above the foliage on long stalks called scapes, they are grown primarily for their foliage and neat habit.
El Nino Hosta is a dense herbaceous perennial with tall flower stalks held atop a low mound of foliage. Its medium texture blends into the garden, but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition.
Hosta 'El Nino' is a sport of the popular blue hosta 'Halcyon' and is similar to its parent in all respects but displays a crisp white margin around its pointed leaves of good substance. Bell-shaped, lavender flowers.
