Name: H. 'Kifukurin Ko Mame'
Description: Shiny, dark green, wavy leaves with creamy margins. In Japanese Ko means "small" and Mame is "a pea"; so the name means "gold-margined, very small hosta."
Size: Mini (7"w x 4"h)
Origin: Unknown, Japan
Flowers: Purple flowers.
Added to garden: Late 1990's or around 2000.
Notes: fast growing, good edger - I have this in several spots of my yard and really like it as an edger.
Registry - http://www.hostaregistrar.org/detail.ph ... 0Ko%20Mame
MyHostas - http://myhostas.be/db/hostas/Kifukurin+Ko+Mame
Hosta Library - http://www.hostalibrary.org/k/kitukurin.html
Daily Hosta #1 - 'Kifukurin Ko Mame' - Add your pics
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Daily Hosta #1 - 'Kifukurin Ko Mame' - Add your pics
Ann
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Pictures of Ann's Hostas:
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Re: Daily Hosta #1 - 'Kifukurin Ko Mame' - Add your pics
Added this one in July


Paul
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Re: Daily Hosta #1 - 'Kifukurin Ko Mame' - Add your pics
Ann: this was the one I got from you this spring. Thanks a bunch, this little hosta just survive in the shade, under the shade of Hosta Guacamole.
Janet is also growing nicely at the back of Heuchera Caramel.


Janet is also growing nicely at the back of Heuchera Caramel.


Angelina/Angie/Angel
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Re: Daily Hosta #1 - 'Kifukurin Ko Mame' - Add your pics
Still a wonderful edger. Grows fast, easy to divide.
Ann
Pictures of Ann's Hostas:
http://violaann.smugmug.com/Garden/Host ... 361_qL3gHS (SmugMug gallery now updated for 2016)
Pictures of Ann's Hostas:
http://violaann.smugmug.com/Garden/Host ... 361_qL3gHS (SmugMug gallery now updated for 2016)
Re: Daily Hosta #1 - 'Kifukurin Ko Mame' - Add your pics
Mine came in labeled as "Gracillima Yellow Edge".
Ed McHugh, Sicklerville NJ
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Re: Daily Hosta #1 - 'Kifukurin Ko Mame' - Add your pics
Ed - is yours really the same plant? The margins seem wider.
At any rate, I have this in four places and in two of them it's doing really well. I have a garden in the back yard which is close to the neighbour's Linden Tree and the bits of it that are in that garden seem stunted.
At any rate, I have this in four places and in two of them it's doing really well. I have a garden in the back yard which is close to the neighbour's Linden Tree and the bits of it that are in that garden seem stunted.
Ann
Pictures of Ann's Hostas:
http://violaann.smugmug.com/Garden/Host ... 361_qL3gHS (SmugMug gallery now updated for 2016)
Pictures of Ann's Hostas:
http://violaann.smugmug.com/Garden/Host ... 361_qL3gHS (SmugMug gallery now updated for 2016)
Re: Daily Hosta #1 - 'Kifukurin Ko Mame' - Add your pics
2016 update - no real change
Ann
Pictures of Ann's Hostas:
http://violaann.smugmug.com/Garden/Host ... 361_qL3gHS (SmugMug gallery now updated for 2016)
Pictures of Ann's Hostas:
http://violaann.smugmug.com/Garden/Host ... 361_qL3gHS (SmugMug gallery now updated for 2016)
Re: Daily Hosta #1 - 'Kifukurin Ko Mame' - Add your pics
2017 update. Still have four borders, but the two in the back yard still don't do as well.
Ann
Pictures of Ann's Hostas:
http://violaann.smugmug.com/Garden/Host ... 361_qL3gHS (SmugMug gallery now updated for 2016)
Pictures of Ann's Hostas:
http://violaann.smugmug.com/Garden/Host ... 361_qL3gHS (SmugMug gallery now updated for 2016)