Hosta 'Moonstruck' 26 August 2025

Hosta 'Moonstruck' was originated by Bill Zumbar (Wm. Zumbar) of Ohio and registered in 2009 by Kevin Walek on his behalf. It is a cultivar described as a small, upright plant with narrowly ovate, slightly cupped blue leaves that have a creamy-white pattern in the center.

I have written here that hosta flowers grow on scapes (the correct term for a hosta stem) in three different ways. Some hostas have only one flower at the end, others have many on cluster at the end and the third have flowers from the top to down the scape.

Today I noticed a further variation. Hosta ‘Moonstruck’ is a small hosta with leaves that are four inches long. The scape is 21 inches long. I do not know of any hosta with scape so out of proportion with its mother plant.

And because I like to associate I immediately remembered that when I played the alto saxophone in the St. Edward’s High School band between 1958 and 1961 one of the tunes we played and which I loved was How High the Moon. It would seem that this lovely hosta could have been connected with that song.