The leaves have good substance and have a high gloss in summer. There is no other hosta like it. Manhattan has extreme texture. The leaf blade is filled with corrugation that mimics the skyscrapers of New York City. In addition, the leaf margins are ruffled like two rivers, further creating the island effect.
Manhattan also has attractive purple scapes and bracts that appear early in the sales season.
Jim Wilkins Millennium is a large, heavily substanced dark blue hosta with large cupped and puckered leaves. It takes its form from its H. sieboldiana heritage but has its vigor and tall bloom scape from Sagae . Both an improvement on its parents and a beautiful hosta. Moby Dick is a huge blue Sum and Substance . We were fortunate to receive a limited number of liners of this very rare hosta.