Let me know what you're getting rid of Jim - I may be interested.
I also wanted to say after seeing the name mentioned a time or 2 that Ann Kulpa [which I don't have - yet] was one that consistently caught my eye in tour gardens this summer. And the small wide centered plant you see for sale looks nothing like the very narrow centered large plant you end up with.
Another I wished I'd gotten [and may yet] is Rainbow's End. The description I read didn't do much for me, but in person it's pretty amazing even in a small 4" pot. Looks like no other hosta I've seen. And you can tell that it's got great substance from 10 feet away.
I really like American Icon and Journey's End too!
Three other newer varieties that are outstanding are Atlantis, Cathedral Windows and Emerald Ruff Cut.
I kind of agree with jgh on this. It's almost gotten to the point that the hosta has to be pretty darn special for me to cough up the cash for it. Many of my seedlings have been wonderful and sometimes better than what's being intro'd on the market. I haven't gotten but a couple this year, but last year I got 6 with a gift certificate and of that group of plants, Dancing Queen is still flat out the best one. The color and vigor. Wow!
Out of all my yellows, this one has a unique color to pull it out of the pack.
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am new to hosta gardening. Unless I could recognize hosta cultivar without reading label I do not think I want it in my garden.
So far I am close to 300 and able to ID them fairly well
Hostas that keep my eye attracted are
Alligator shoes- very nice corrugation,tough to damage from slugs or fallen debris, want to touch leaf every time I walk by
Gilt by association- outstanding color in spring and nice shape, coloring less dramatic now but plant still stands out.
Orange slices- keeps this parchment yellow all season and so cute!
Stained glass- coloring is amazing, nice show stopper in my perennial bed.
Ghost spirit- keeps this misty speckled look from srping till now and overall shape is very attractive as well, good grower.
Bought a bunch of hostas last year at a hosta show, and of them I'm really enjoying Journey's End, Sea Gulf Stream and Miss American Pie (love the long leaf form, its actually the only one I have like that).
~PIM~
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I'll go take a pic, but can someone point me to where the thread was on how to post it from my photobucket account, its been so long I don't remember how to do that.
~PIM~
°`°º¤ø,¸¸Kindness is the oil that takes the friction out of life¸¸,ø¤º°`°
I have about a dozen new ones this year and I would say that the one that has surprised me the most as far as growth in a single season is 'Heatwave'...I'm really looking forward to seeing that one next year. It's also one of the only ones without slug damage, which is really saying something in my yard.
Yes, Heatwave has really turned out to be a great hosta here too. I was really reluctant to start that one, but it has definitely impressed me, even after a short period of time
For me it is Lederhosen. Perfect grower, big and good smelling flowers on top of a towering scape (1,2 meters high), long flowering periode, amazing blue-green foliage that could be used to sew a leatherpant. Great Escape impresses me too. The contrast of blue and white combined with the thick substance is outstanding.
Somebody mentioned Violetta. All customers are very happy with this plant. Good grower, takes a lot of sun, almost no slug-damage and a flower show in dark purple that last for about 4 to 5 weeks.
Thanks for all the input an news about hosta plants in this thread.
Seebruck, Chiemsee, Germany
Zone 6b (526 m above sealevel, 1,5 m above lakelevel )
"Ein Leben ohne Hosta ist ein Irrtum"
frei nach Karl Foerster
I was re-looking at this thread and I noticed others mentioning H 'Mango Tango'. It is an awesome plant. Mine is so new it is still
an one-eye little tc plant. It was a gift from Eric Kinman (the introducer) which makes it special too. I am anxious to see MT when it's all grown up. I liked Eric's enchanting story of how the plant was discovered & named which was once published here on the Hallson forum too. I wish I could remember it.
And Lederhosen is an awesome thing too. Mine is all grown up and really a joy in the garden.
Kinman wrote:It was late in the evening during the summer solstice in the Caribbean. The evening was hot, and music was rumbling softly throughout the straw-thatched beach bar. I heard the call of the tango and without my knowing, my body glided from my seat to the dance floor where I began to tango with a voodoo latin goddess named Mango. It was at that moment, in Mango's arms, that I recalled the great sport I found from 'Dance with Me'. Thus, the 'Mango Tango'.
Actually, I was stone sober, sitting in my beat-up Chevy pick-up, driving through Northern Ohio, and the name came to me.
You're the BEST 