| Description | Hosta Halcyon One of the best know and most popular Hosta's of the Tardiana group. A medium sized plant with excellent blue foliage and heavy substance |
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| Plant Type | All Plants, Perennials Hardy |
| Hardiness Zone | 4 |
| Sunlight | Given to much light and the blue will fade. Best grown in semi-shade to shade. |
| Moisture | average |
| Soil & Site | average |
| Flowers | Lilac-blue bell-shaped flowers are borne on a raceme in the late summer. |
| Leaves | Large, flattened, spear-shaped to heart-shaped, puckered, frosty blue-green leaves with pointed tips. |
| Dimensions | 18 inches tall by over 40 inches spread |
| Propagation | division |
| Cultivar Origin | This plant was hybridized in 1961, by Eric Smith. It was an inter-specific cross (a cross between two different species) between H. sieboldiana "Elegans Alba" and H. tardiflora. This was a break through in Hosta hybridizing. Halcyon received the Award of Merit from the American Hosta Society in 1987. |
| Misc Facts | American Hosta Society Distinguished Merit Hosta award (1987). |
| Notes & Reference | #33-Hosta the Flowering Foliage Plant (Diana Grenfell), #50-The Hosta Handbook (Mark R. Zillis), #274-Site Authors' observations and growing experiences of Hosta Halcyon |
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