Love this hosta! Very vigorous here in my yard, great grower.
These were my very first hostas and I'm hooked! My guacamole is more lime green than what's shown in these pictures. The flowers are very pale lavender and have a wonderful fragrance. It's December now, and the leaves are still green!
Tough as nails. Was in a much smaller container for the last four years and survived two years of bad drought without a flinch. (Well, maybe a brown leaf or two, but no flinching!)
Too big for my taste. I'd love to sell it but last time I tried to take a chunk from it I had to use a saw and it took a long time.
Love this hosta! Easy to see why it is always high on the popularity polls for hosta. It grows well, grows pretty fast, and no matter how many you have they will all look different according to where you plant it. Like most people I know, I grow two of this wonderful hosta!
An excellent and beautiful hosta that is vigorous, rapid-growing and never fails to scent the summer with its large and abundant pale icy lavender blooms. A treat for the eyes as well as the nose! The coloring of the foliage is subtle enough to mix well in many garden settings.
Hosta 'Empress Wu' is considered to be the largest-leaf hosta and was introduced by Brian and Virginia Skaggs. It was a selected seedling of Hosta 'Big John' (Clarence Owens, 1986)
(AKA Francis Williams)
Plant tag: "Dense, open facing mound of heavy textured & intensely dimpled, bright golden yellow leaves with green margins. Small hosta".
I find it's best to choose the plant in leaf so you know you are getting one with good patterning, also a plant in growth is better than one you might buy in a bag where they can dry out and take a long time to establish if at all. I planted this in an old metal baby's bath tub with a few holes drilled in the bottom. It likes where it is, I planted it in a good mix of fertile gritty 'river soil' (if you have a drain to dig it from it's great for plants) and home made leafy compost, all I have needed to do so far is occasionally top the pot up. I have never fed it, there's sufficient food in the compost mix, I prefer to grow plants naturally as I think it makes them healthier and hardier.
