Crinum digweedii Mermaid Sarracenia Clumps of Hosta 'Hollywood Lights'

Clumps of Hosta 'Hollywood Lights' are topped with 2' tall spikes of light lavender hummingbird-friendly flowers in mid-July

and the Pauline Banyai Award (most distinctive unregistered seedling) at the 1995 AHS Convention Leaf Show

a mid-summer cutback may help it look fresh into the fall

great as either a small specimen plant or used in a woodland border

the central tuber will often die in the low teens F so

Crinum digweedii Mermaid Sarracenia Clumps of Hosta 'Hollywood Lights'Crinum x digweedii 'Mermaid' is a hybrid of Crinum americanum x Crinum scabrum from Texas crinum breeder, Marcelle Sheppard. The clumps of glossy green, deeply channeled leaves are topped, starting in mid September (NC) with 30" stalks, terminating in a cluster of large, fragrant white flowers with wide central red stripes nicely vigorous.