Hallson Gardens

Beautiful pictures. Anyone know why the center coloration is different between the pictures - maturity of the plant or different lighting?

When I saw Marlys's first picture it reminded me of Great Expectations.

My preferences are along the Gold Standard lines: Hanky Panky 0947.JPG But I like many others: Fragrant Bouquet 0957.JPG Here's Krossa Regal on the right with two Frances Williams behind it and three low Whirlwind and three Fragrant Bouquet. That's a small Elegans in flower in the middle. I have los...

One of the reasons I got into hostas was for the flowers in shade. I look for flowers that attract hummingbirds. I have red cardinal flowers and beebalm but I wanted more. I put in a lot of hostas last summer and now I'm looking at flowering times so I can have flowers all summer and late into the f...

Mary Ann's version reminded me of a catalog picture of Delta Dawn.

I have had the opportunity to buy both "in the field" (really in pots) but never pulled the trigger. I have purchased three Paul's Gold. Everyone sees different beauty in hostas.

No problem here either.

Just for the fun of it.

The magic of Hanky Panky plants. Four different plants.

Tassels is registered but Harlot is not.

I found them listed in the "MyHostas" sports database under Striptease:

http://myhostas.net/sports/

There is a description of each plant but "a picture is worth a thousand words". I was interested in how close they are to others in the line.

Not in any order:

Wily Willy
Unforgettable
Cabaret
Hanky Panky
Gypsy Rose
Stained Glass
Touch of Class
Pandora's Box
Diana Remembered
Lemon Frost
Summer Breeze
Yellow Splash Rim
Stitch In Time
June
Olympic Sunrise
Little Sunspot
Dream Queen
Fragrant Bouquet
Sweet Innocence
Ann Kulpa

I was thinking that when I did it on the cafier lily, it has thicker leaves. You might want to test the "cure" first on a couple of leaves. Just to make sure it doesn't burn them - hosta leaves seem thinner to me than the cafier lily's. It make take a few doses to wipe out the problem. I have used t...

Another thing - the acolhol will dribble way down into the plant. Don't soak it just let is seep down. I have a cafier lily that once had it bad and I was able to clean it this way. (It's over 20 years old.)

Oh the wonders of the mealybug. Malathion I think is recommended. But I have used acolhol on a Q-tip. Lots of Q-tips on the really infected plants. Remove really bad leaves. Hit all the fuzzy stuff with the Q-tip and remove it. It is also a social disease - keep other plants away.

Beautiful pictutes, I have seen them hit my hosta but never got shots of them. Thanks.

I do have shots on my feeder. This is old. The under-brush in the background has been cleared for planting.

mms://camden-21.rutgers.edu/mchugh4

I have seen references to two Stripease sports that I can't find pictures for. Does anyone know of photos for the Hosta Harlot and the Hosta Tassels? Thanks.

The hosta Hanky Panky got me really interested in hosta. It seems to have the most variation on a single plant. I took the motion out of my first photo story (and removed the second one - it gave me a headache too - my server was too slow and that made the thing jumpy and unwatchable). Try this: [ur...

Let's see how this works with the motion out. There is music though.

[url]mms://crab.rutgers.edu/~mchugh/Hosta%20Gold%20Standard/GoldStandard&Striptease2.wmv[/url]

Same pictures but different sequence:
[url]mms://crab.rutgers.edu/~mchugh/Hosta%20Gold%20Standard/Gold%20Standard&Striptease3.wmv[/url]

Thanks for the note. I don't really take it as criticism. I needed that information to know what viewers are seeing. The zooming doesn't bother my but if I see spinning pages or panning across that bothers me. Now I know to warn about the different types of motion - the way an amusement ride does. S...

I have a pine and swamp maple area that we cleared two years ago. I'm still digging out the little "potatoes" of greenbrier - nasty things. The photos are slightly misleading. The first shows an empty space that is a gravel path between areas and the back right of the photo has many sports of June b...

OK.

Your lucky. I love tulips but the rabbits eat them.