Buy Hosta 'Abiqua Drinking Gourd'

Also Known As

Walden West 89

Plant type

perennial

size

H: 12"-16"
W: 24"-36"

planting zones

3a-9b

Mature Division--Bare Root | $14

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Hosta 'Abiqua Drinking Gourd' plant details

Hosta 'Abiqua Drinking Gourd' is a broadleaf deciduous perennial with blue and green foliage. In summer lavender and white flowers emerge. Features glaucous texture. Attracts hummingbirds. Grows well with bright shade - shade and even moisture - regular water. Does well in average, rich and well-drained soil. A good option if you're seeking something verticillium wilt resistant.

CHARACTERISTICS OF Hosta 'Abiqua Drinking Gourd'

Plant type: perennial
Plant family: asparagaceae
Foliage: deciduous blue and green
Mature size: 24 IN - 36 IN - wide, 12 IN - 16 IN - tall
Flowers: lavender and white blooms in summer
Uses: big leaves, border plant, container plant, heart-shaped leaves, long-lived, puckered leaves, woodland garden

GROWING CONDITIONS for Hosta 'Abiqua Drinking Gourd'

USDA Zones: 3a - 9b
Sun exposure: bright shade - shade
Watering frequency: even moisture - regular
Resistant to: snail / slug, verticillium wilt
Soil needs: average, rich and well-drained

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Nursery contributed plant descriptions

Like tiny blue mountain-lakes, the intensely cupped and puckered leaves of this new-comer with its white mid-summer flowers make it an attractive and distinctive specimen; (Walden West) PSh-Sh/M

By: Forestfarm

Hosta ‘Abiqua Drinking Gourd’ has deeply cupped and twisted, nearly round, blue-green leaves that are waxy and deeply corrugated. White, hummingbird-attracting flowers appear just above the foliage. Plantain Lilies grow best in moist, well-drained, highly organic soils. A good partner for ferns. Although the flowers are attractive, Hostas are usually grown for their ornamental foliage.

By: Little Prince of Oregon

Abiqua Drinking Gourd' is one of my favourite hostas and one of the most distinctive blue foliaged cultivars. Dark blue-green seersuckered leaves have heavy substance, great slug resistance and a unique cupped form with the leaf edges curved upwards so that each leaf cups upwards as if to collect the rain. White flowers.

By: Phoenix Perennials and Specialty Plants Ltd.

Impressive clump of rich dark blue-green leaves with powdered grey undersides cupped & puckered; Can hold rain in leaves; Nice effect. White flowers with tint of lavender mid summer. Plant in afternoon shade to full shade. Large hosta.

By: Sebright Gardens

Dark blue with glaucous bloom. Round, cupped, rugose. White tubular flowers mid July to mid August.

By: Hoot Owl Hollow Nursery

Large powder blue seersuckered leaves with heavy substance display a unique cupped form up to 3" deep. Plants reach 2-3' across and are 16" tall, (22" when its spires of white bells are in bloom in early summer) Very slug resistant.