US Plant Patent PP37113
Avant Garde
Hosta plant named ‘Avant Garde’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends December 20, 2044.
No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.
The record
- Patent number
- PP37113
- Filed
- December 20, 2024
- Granted
- November 25, 2025
- Expires
- December 20, 2044
- Assignee
- WALTERS GARDENS INC, HANSEN HANS A
- Inventor
- HANSEN HANS A
Abstract
A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Avant Garde’ of large arching mounds of broadly ovate leaves having wide bluish-green margins and khaki with olive-green centers. The variegation is also attractively displayed with numerous featherings of intermediate colors between the center the leaf margins. The flowers are very pale lavender held just above the foliage beginning in late June for about three weeks. ‘Avant Garde’ has excellent large mounded habit and is useful in the landscape, as a specimen, or en masse.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
It is claimed: 1 . A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Avant Garde’ as herein described and illustrated.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP37113 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.