{"id":1381,"date":"2011-08-14T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T16:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2011-08-10T17:36:27","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T21:36:27","slug":"old-timey-%e2%80%98royal-standard%e2%80%99-hosta-still-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2011\/08\/14\/old-timey-%e2%80%98royal-standard%e2%80%99-hosta-still-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Old-Timey \u2018Royal Standard\u2019 Hosta Still Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1382\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Hosta-Royal-Std-1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1382\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1382\" title=\"Hosta 'Royal Std' (1)\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Hosta-Royal-Std-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Hosta-Royal-Std-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Hosta-Royal-Std-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Hosta-Royal-Std-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1382\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hosta &#39;Royal Standard&#39; at Kingwood Center<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Kingwood Center is a wonderful public garden in Mansfield, Ohio\u00a0with several top notch beds of hostas. One glorious bed of \u2018Royal Standard\u2019 hosta blooms their heads off from mid-August into September. With over 35,000 registered hostas available, why look back at this vintage variety.<\/p>\n<p>Royal Standard was patented and introduced in 1965 by Wayside Gardens and still remains popular. Its 4 &#8211; 5 inch long green leaves are ordinary compared to modern day hosta cultivars. A multi-division clump develops foliage around 18 inches tall and spreading to 4 feet across. White trumpet shaped flowers rise 24 inches tall on leafy scapes in August and are pleasantly fragrant.<\/p>\n<p>Royal Standard grows in a wide array of garden soils, yet it excels in compost rich soils. Two-year established Royal Standard demonstrates good summer heat and drought tolerance in the Southern Appalachian region (USDA zones 6 and 7).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Morning sunlight followed by light afternoon shade is preferred, but\u00a0I have seen a terrific bed planted in a gas station island under full day sun, assumedly with regular irrigation.<\/p>\n<p>Plant foliage dies down in the winter.\u00a0Clumps are easy to divide either in\u00a0early fall or late spring. Slugs are the principal major pest problem of many hosta cultivar, including &#8216;Royal Standard&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kingwood Center is a wonderful public garden in Mansfield, Ohio\u00a0with several top notch beds of hostas. One glorious bed of \u2018Royal Standard\u2019 hosta blooms their heads off from mid-August into September. With over 35,000 registered hostas available, why look back at this vintage variety. Royal Standard was patented and introduced in 1965 by Wayside Gardens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[605,730,625,630,706,646,1,455],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1718,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions\/1718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}