most expensive......

vawildflower · Post by **vawildflower** » Jun 03, 2008 12:03 am

Which hosta do you feel has given you the least bang for your buck? For me, I paid 50.00 (i think) for love burst and it has done nothing...still the same size when I bought it...very small and not anything special about it. Just a 50.00 dollar Love Pat. A real disappointment at this point....maybe that will change in time. For the prices we pay, it would be nice to hear your stories.

thanks
wild

HostaDesigner · Post by **HostaDesigner** » Jun 03, 2008 7:32 am

Back when I was an avid "collector" I shelled out a C-note for a 'Tattoo'. It limped along for years, never getting to maturity. If I could only get that time/money back....sigh...

renaldo75 · Post by **renaldo75** » Jun 03, 2008 9:06 am

Mine isn't quite in the big bucks range you guys are talking about. I think the most I've ever spent on a hosta was $35 at an AHS online auction. I got Ran Lydell's 'Yucka Ducka Do' and enjoyed it in a new garden for about 3 months after I finally received it from him. Every other hosta in that garden was present, accounted for, & looking great the next spring. Except that auction plant. It didn't frost heave - it simply disappeared...

Another big disappointment for a little tc plant was Fireworks. Had to have it cuz it was brand new & looked so cute - even though it was a tiny thing. So I shelled out $28 to a convention vendor. It was never that big again cuz I had to look harder in the holding bed to find it every year after that since it kept reducing in size.

I believe it was last year that I found the dried out husk that had frost heaved.

playinmud · Post by **playinmud** » Jun 03, 2008 11:23 am

I spent $50 for a one-eyed division of 'Flamboyant' (Soules Version), planted it, then it went from bad to worse. It came up the second year and then literally mushed up and rotted away.

I've never had a hosta do that poorly. Needless to say its off my list, I won't be giving that a second chance.

Justme · Post by **Justme** » Jun 03, 2008 11:10 pm

I think I paid around $40 for a L.S. Dragonfly and it has not really taken off. This year it has reduced to only one small eye.

Tami

John · Post by **John** » Jun 03, 2008 11:44 pm

I got L. 'Dragonfly' in last year's secret trade, and it looks great!

However, 'Fire and Ice' as mentioned above is a disappointment, to say the least, and kindly...

The most I ever spent on a Hosta was $17, and that was a couple decades or more ago, on 'Northern Halo'. There are still one or two eyes...

Second highest: 'Patriot', well worth the $10!

I've actually spent higher amounts on seeds, notably Katsuragawa beni X ?, none of which seedlings showed any red. I am thinking now I should probably have crossed those seedlings amongst themselves (sib crosses) to bring out any recessive red genes?

greenguy · Post by **greenguy** » Jun 04, 2008 8:56 am

Fireworks - it would be a great plant if it would grow. mine is not dead but it has been the same size since i got it (i think 3 years now)

embroidery - it looked ok when i got it but turned out to be the most expensive plain green hosta i had and i can't even find it in my garden anymore - i probably gave it away or it died

renaldo75 · Post by **renaldo75** » Jun 04, 2008 9:05 am

Greenguy, maybe you should go look in your sister's garden for Embroidery.

flowerchild59 · Post by **flowerchild59** » Jun 04, 2008 9:29 am

Not counting the atom smasher (200.00

) that actually did live and is thriving in several spots in my beds and in one pot..............I count my repeated failures with the same plant:
Like: maui buttercups, salute and midas touch , I have tried repeatedly to grow these same three and they keep dying. I give up on them.

greenguy · Post by **greenguy** » Jun 04, 2008 9:34 am

renaldo - could be

John · Post by **John** » Jun 04, 2008 9:58 am

Salute and Midas Touch do fine for me, but INVINCIBLE should have been called anything but, it disappoints every year, and is the first to go down for the winter.

renaldo75 · Post by **renaldo75** » Jun 04, 2008 8:16 pm

And my Invincible has looked good every year in spite of being strangled by roots & one year being munched on twice by deer.

Everybody seems to have their own problem hostas.

jobranch · Post by **jobranch** » Jun 04, 2008 9:37 pm

$29.00 for this Great Expectations. I no longer have great expectations that it will ever look like one...

HostaDesigner · Post by **HostaDesigner** » Jun 04, 2008 10:02 pm

renaldo75 wrote:And my Invincible has looked good every year in spite of being strangled by roots & one year being munched on twice by deer. Everybody seems to have their own problem hostas.

Invincible is one of my favorite plants for seeds too. LOTS of 'Moonlight Sonata'-type traits for robust plants.

I forgot I bid a couple hundred bucks on a Dorothy Benedict thru ebay a few years back. I was outbid!! Foolish moment saved by deeper pockets than mine!