Updated Garden Pics

k9clipper · Post by **k9clipper** » May 21, 2008 7:24 pm

Everything is getting so big !

I can foresee needing to divide some plants next year.

front to back : Fragrant Boquet, Rascal, Abiqua Moonbeam, and Jimmy Crack Corn

Little Sunspot & Little Aurora

Fire & Ice & Spilt Milk

Nathalie23 · Post by **Nathalie23** » May 21, 2008 7:33 pm

Beautiful, huge and healthy hostas!

Thanks for sharing!

fenceberry · Post by **fenceberry** » May 21, 2008 7:44 pm

Lovely! My Fire & Ice is puny and Spilt Milk died on me. I not going to cry over it though.

thy · Post by **thy** » May 21, 2008 8:23 pm

that's what hostas do... they grow

Great pics

LucyGoose · Post by **LucyGoose** » May 21, 2008 10:30 pm

hagranger · Post by **hagranger** » May 22, 2008 1:01 am

So nice to see unfurled hosta!

You are quite a bit ahead of us here in Michigan so it's great to see them all leafed out!

Helen

mum2knm · Post by **mum2knm** » May 22, 2008 9:50 am

Great pics! Can't wait for my FB, AM and F&I look like yours. I'm now adding Little Aurora to my wish list.

DBoweMD · Post by **DBoweMD** » May 22, 2008 11:32 am

mum2mum, be careful buying little Aurora. I recommend seeing it in person before buying. See notes on it in Zilis' Hosta Handbook. There was some mix up in the trade.

I have bought both Golden Prayers, and Little Aurora, from Ruh (Homestead) and Golden Prayers looks like that and matches the plants that some from it, i.e. Sultana and Little Sunspot, and it grows. 'Just So' is also very similar in shape and size, is descended from it.
You want the small version of Golden Prayers, most likely.
I don't know what Ruh's 'Little Aurora' is, but most people have trouble keeping 'Little Aurora" alive. I think I have lost it twice.
There is a Golden Prayers that is the true form, according to Zilis that is a lot bigger than this nice small one. My Mom got it somewhere so I have seen both.

So the best way in my opinion to buy the nice 'Little Aurora' is to get it in person from someone who also sells one of the other three mentioned. Compare leaf shape, substance, size.
If they also sell 'Golden Prayers', buy it too!

mum2knm · Post by **mum2knm** » May 22, 2008 12:56 pm

Thanks for the info Dave!

renaldo75 · Post by **renaldo75** » May 22, 2008 9:40 pm

All of your hostas look wonderful, K9!!

I'll throw out my experience on Little Aurora. Don't buy it. I've had either 2 or 3 now and had is the operative word. It ain't here no more. And neither is Sultana or Little Sunspot. Little Sunspot had always done fairly well while Little Aurora & Sultana struggled to stay alive each year. Last year I moved all 3 to a new garden & apparently that was my mistake.

No sign of any of the 3 this year. There's lots of other nice hostas out there. I won't bother replacing any of this family.

newB · Post by **newB** » May 22, 2008 10:23 pm

I love your Fire & Ice. Well, I like everything but that one really catches my eye. It reminds me of my Loyalist only much, much bigger

Great Job, someday my garden will look like this!

Thanks for posting the pictures!
Mari