name that piecrust...

eastwood2007 · Post by **eastwood2007** » Aug 15, 2007 11:52 am

This is a long shot, but here goes...

In the last few months I had seen a photo of a green hosta, heartshaped leaves, with the tightest piecrust edge I had ever seen. It literally looked like a hacksaw blade. I thought I would remember it's name, but I can't. I saw it on the internet, but don't remember where.

I don't remember whether it was light or dark green, what size. I don't know if it was a newer intro or an older one...registered or unregistered. Can anyone think of a hosta that might fit this description?

Thanks in advance!

pauhaus · Post by **pauhaus** » Aug 15, 2007 12:02 pm

Hiya Charla, check out Ginsu Knife

eastwood2007 · Post by **eastwood2007** » Aug 15, 2007 12:19 pm

Paul, thanks! That one is pretty for sure...so is Ginsu Knife Supreme. I looked them up on HL...

The one I am looking for has a leaf shape more similar to Marilyn Monroe, Niagara Falls and Green Piecrust, but the edge is just really, really tightly zigzagged.

Thanks for trying!

wishiwere · Post by **wishiwere** » Aug 15, 2007 12:48 pm

I don't remember who it was that posted it, or what the name of the hosta was, but there was one on here that caught my eye a while back. If you remembered when or about, maybe you could search here for it?

Tigger · Post by **Tigger** » Aug 15, 2007 1:01 pm

I can imagine that 'Clovelly', from Kent Terpening (who posts here) might have come up. It has that intense hacksaw edge.

(http://hostalibrary.org/c/c.html for more pics)

There is a hosta 'Hacksaw' but it doesn't have the classic leaf shape you're looking for.

eastwood2007 · Post by **eastwood2007** » Aug 15, 2007 1:35 pm

Thanks, everyone.

Tigger. I have seen Clovelly and it is certainly on my list! It is really beautiful! I'll use that too, I'm sure. I am just kicking myself for not remembering where I saw that other one!

wishiwere, it has been in the last 6-8 weeks that I saw it...how would I search here?

It may have been on one of the auctions...I hope it wasn't Leafmould's...won't be any chance of gettin' ahold of it then!

Maybe I should pm Kent? He might know...

Primroselane · Post by **Primroselane** » Aug 15, 2007 9:18 pm

Manhattan

wishiwere · Post by **wishiwere** » Aug 15, 2007 9:57 pm

You'd have to just cruise the post made 6-8 weeks ago. It would be a chore for certain. But I'm thinking this one that Tigger posted by Kent is the one I was thinking of.

Not positive, but it was his or Leafmould. And as was already stated, if it was Leafmoulds, you'll never see one in your hands!

They are the two I was thinking of. Do a search above for posts by either of them and see if you can narrow it down.

Kent · Post by **Kent** » Aug 15, 2007 11:25 pm

Dang Charla...I wish I new that plant you were talking about because it sounds like something that I really really need

Please find out what it is soon!!!!!!!!

Kent

ckp · Post by **ckp** » Aug 16, 2007 1:36 am

Charla, take a look at
H. Marilyn Monroe"
Grand slam
Queen fo the seas
in the library

Stir Fry and Sting ray don's have as much piecrust and the first 3. Charlene

Wanda · Post by **Wanda** » Aug 16, 2007 7:42 am

From your description, my first guess would be “Hacksaw”...one of Ron Livingston’s plants. Very aptly named...

wanda

eastwood2007 · Post by **eastwood2007** » Aug 16, 2007 10:43 am

Thanks everyone for trying, but no success yet...I've looked on First Look...not there...but there was one beautiful piecrust from someone's breeding program with "Split Personality"....Kent...

I have been racking my brain about where I could have seen it...it may have been from pics of the convention tour gardens...maybe the national? It wasn't on this forum, but somewhere I thought I would get back to, so I didn't write down the piecrusts' name. I've already looked at the AHS website and it wasn't there...can anyone think of where else those kind of pics might have been posted? I remember it was alot of photos of the participants of the tour and of the gardens.....HEEEEELLLLLP!!!!! This is driving me crazy! Well, crazy-er...

druff · Post by **druff** » Aug 16, 2007 12:17 pm

are you sure it wasn't a dream.

doug

Pieter · Post by **Pieter** » Aug 16, 2007 12:27 pm

It wasn't on this forum, but somewhere I thought I would get back to, so I didn't write down the piecrusts' name.

Charla, do you subscribe to any e-mail lists, such as Hostapix for eample, where perhaps you might have seen it?

ckp · Post by **ckp** » Aug 16, 2007 1:32 pm

Were you looking thru catalogs on line?
Charlene

eastwood2007 · Post by **eastwood2007** » Aug 16, 2007 3:44 pm

doug, no it wasn't a dream...even though that piecrust edge was sure 'dreamy'

I've been thinking, and I am almost certain it was in slideshow, etc. of pics from one of the hosta conventions. There was a combo of people in some pics and just some specimen hostas that were awesome. This particular one really stood out. But I am remembering that I was searching for something that day, so although, very intrigued by seeing the people whose names I know only and the wonderful hostas, I just quickly flipped thru it...now I am just trying to remember where...

Thanks for trying everyone...please keep thinking.

eastwood2007 · Post by **eastwood2007** » Aug 16, 2007 3:46 pm

P.S. Pieter, I had looked at hostapix once, but I checked there, and that wasn't it, either.

Sorry to be so persistent about this...but it was really a beauty.

Patrushka · Post by **Patrushka** » Aug 16, 2007 4:48 pm

Here's another possibility:

http://www.foosf.com/Site/FOoSF%20Main.html

Maybe Alttara's 'Jaws'.

hubble · Post by **hubble** » Aug 16, 2007 11:48 pm

Charla, how about Olga's sale....hosta 'Gotham'. Not as tight as a hacksaw, but very pretty. There are several pics posted.

viewtopic.php?t=44833&highlight=olga

Good luck.

Karen

vawildflower · Post by **vawildflower** » Aug 18, 2007 1:06 am

I have "candy dish", and it has a nice heart shape leaf, more of a darker green and I feel the edge is very piecrusted. Just a thought.

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