Hosta Long Tail Lights Crete clothed in lanceolate (narrow) green

clothed in lanceolate (narrow) green leaves and topped from mid-May thru mid-June with bright red buds that open to screaming yellow

who awarded it the 2005 Award of Garden Merit

Held just above the foliage is a scrumptious pink ladyslipper-like flower

spiny-leaved clumps are topped with bronze new leaves in spring

Hosta Long Tail Lights Crete clothed in lanceolate (narrow) greenHosta 'Long Tail Lights' is a 2017 Plant Delights Nursery introduction from a cross we made in 1996 involving Hosta kikutii and several other seedlings. The 10" tall x 2' wide clump is composed of wonderfully textured, deeply veined, long, pointed leaves of medium green, edged in a wide golden border that ages to cream. The 2' tall scape of lavender flowers top the clump, starting for us in late August early September.