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						  This seedling of H. 'Paradise Red Delight' was registered by
				
			Danny Van Eechaute  of 
				Belgium in 2003.   It is a medium size plant 
						about 15 inches high by 33 inches wide which starts the 
						season blue-green and turns medium green by mid-July. 
						The leaves are slightly corrugated with red dotted 
						petioles. Pale lavender flowers bloom from August into 
						September followed by viable seeds. 
				
				The New Encyclopedia of Hostas by
				Diana 
				Grenfell (2009) states: "The ethereal gray-blue leaf gradually loses the  
						heavy indumentum on its upper surface as the leaf turns 
						gray-green." 
						
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