Volunteers

Linda P · Post by **Linda P** » May 27, 2009 9:24 am

Here are pics of three vounteer hostas that I decided for one reason or other to save.
I have a few others as well, will try to get pics of them later.
Linda P

HostaDesigner · Post by **HostaDesigner** » May 27, 2009 9:35 am

Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful!

jgh · Post by **jgh** » May 27, 2009 9:58 am

such fun! Why would one buy a big blue when they can grow their own Jabberwock?!

For years I didn't even know hostas seeded... I think I just weeded them in the spring and then the Preen kept them from germinating. Now I love collecting all of them I can and moving them to an area in my "back forty." the variety is amazing.

I've got four that I can't move - they came up in the narrow space between two RR ties I use as walkways in part of the garden - all four quite different and they demonstrate to visitors the incredible hardiness of the species...

R. Rock · Post by **R. Rock** » May 27, 2009 10:06 am

Hello Linda,
Those are very nice and definately "Garden Worthy"

Please send me your rains. I have had only two rains this year. I have never experienced this. 1988 was bad, but I don't remember it.

renaldo75 · Post by **renaldo75** » May 29, 2009 12:47 am

Those all sure look nice, Linda. Wish my volunteers were 1/2 as interesting.

Linda P · Post by **Linda P** » May 30, 2009 8:38 am

Thanks for the nice comments! It's strange, when you find things like these, and some of the seedlings you baby along with high hopes of ending up with something wonderful just turn out to be duds. There's no rhyme or reason to it, but it sure is fun!
Linda P

renaldo75 · Post by **renaldo75** » May 30, 2009 8:44 am

OH MY!!! That's a LOT of ruffling for a 2nd year plant. WOW!!!

Post by **Chris_W** » May 30, 2009 8:55 am

So true how the ones you baby don't go anywhere and then you end up finding little natural weedlings that are so interesting!

A few of my weedlings are getting so large that I've been looking for tags to try and figure out what they are supposed to be, only to remember it was just a 4 or 5 year old volunteer that I let go

DBoweMD · Post by **DBoweMD** » May 30, 2009 12:26 pm

I have one that I had been trying to identify for years, just called it Dad's green one.
It's like a smaller version of Elegans that is not blue, it's a matte finish green with some rugosity.
When my parents bought the house it was growing alongside the house next to the gravel driveway with nothing else, looking like an odd place to plant something. After a while I started to notice that it wasn''t the same as all the other green ones (Undulata Erromena)
So over the years we have divided it many times. After seeing so many common hostas and specialty hostas that don't look like it, I have concluded that it had to be a random hosta seed that got planted there, by a bird dropping perhaps.
That's part of what got me into this addiction, trying to identify what it was.

Linda P · Post by **Linda P** » Jun 01, 2009 11:52 am

Chris_W wrote: A few of my weedlings are getting so large that I've been looking for tags to try and figure out what they are supposed to be, only to remember it was just a 4 or 5 year old volunteer that I let go

Chris, if I didn't make maps and note where the volunteers are, I'd be doing the same thing. I'd be right there with Dave, trying to find out the name of that big blue one, if I hadn't marked it down as a seedling. I've been thinking that I should put a red popsicle stick or something next to all the volunteers that I let grow. It just amazes me the kind of plants some of them turn out to be.
This one I call Jabberwock is such a monster, it seems I take another pic of it every time I'm in the garden.
Linda P

caliloo · Post by **caliloo** » Jun 01, 2009 12:14 pm

Beautiful Babies! ANd I also agree - we nurture seedling and hover over hundreds of them trying to select the best, and sometimes the best pop up "in the wild"

Enjoy them all!

Alexa

Linda P · Post by **Linda P** » Jun 01, 2009 12:36 pm

Here's one that I kept and moved out into a spot in one of the hosta beds a couple of years ago.
It arose between Blue Wedgwood (which you can definitely see in the leaf shape) and Fragrant Blue.
I'm not just sure where the grey color came from, but Azure Snow is right close by.
Whatever it is, I like it.
Linda P

renaldo75 · Post by **renaldo75** » Jun 02, 2009 9:13 am

WOW!! That's another nice one. How old is it?? I'd be thinking of doing something with that one. Very nice, Linda!!

Linda P · Post by **Linda P** » Jun 02, 2009 12:03 pm

Reldon, I think it's about 6 years old...can't remember for sure on this one. I know it popped up during our family cancer episode, so I don't have a clear recollection of exactly when I first noticed it. I have it planted next to Silk Kimono, and I think maybe the grey on this one sort of enhances that velvet look of SK.

I think I need to watch it a little closer this year to see when it flowers, etc.
Linda P

Mary Ann · Post by **Mary Ann** » Jun 02, 2009 1:07 pm

Jabberwok? Where'd that come from?

Linda P · Post by **Linda P** » Jun 02, 2009 2:54 pm

It's in homage to my old high school English teacher, who made me memorize that old Lewis Carroll poem, and way too many years later, I can still remember most of it. It comes into my head out of nowhere, and then won't go away for days at a time. I decided I might just as well name a hosta after it, and the at least I'll have a reason to remember it, besides just general looniness.
I need to go back and correct the spelling! I dropped the "c" out of it!

http://www.jabberwocky.com/carroll/jabb ... wocky.html

Linda P

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