Empress Wu Large Starter Perennial Hosta. Super Healthy. Loves Shade. Premium Shadowland® Collection.

This magnificent hybrid cultivar is renowned for its impressive size, with gorgeous dark green leaves that can reach over 18 inches in length and width. Standing tall at 3-4 feet and spreading over 5-6 feet wide, this hosta forms an eye-catching mound that will leave you in awe. Highlights: Huge dark green, deeply veined leaves of good substance can measure more than 1½' wide and long. Large leaves are formed as a young plant, though entire clump takes about 5 years growing in the ground to achieve mature size. Strongly upright habit, forming a very tall and wide clump Pale reddish violet flowers appear just above the foliage in early to midsummer An outstanding focal point and topic of conversation in your shade garden! We sell two different Empress Wu starter plants. One is a smaller, younger start. This listing is for a larger, more mature start. Both will grow to the same sizes, but the Large Start will do it, faster.  And DID YOU KNOW the Empress Wu is named after Wu Zetian, t