Daily Hosta #1 - 'Bridegroom- Add your pics

ViolaAnn · Post by **ViolaAnn** » Nov 10, 2011 8:14 am

Name: H. 'Bridegroom' - 2008

Description: triangular green leaves with sides sloping downward while twisted tip curves upward
Size: Small (10"w x 8"h) - mine is now larger than the registered size
Origin: H. 'Holly's Honey' x H. 'Holly's Honey' seedling
Flowers: lavender on 18" scapes
Added to garden: Spring 2008

Registry - http://www.hostaregistrar.org/detail.ph ... Bridegroom
MyHostas - http://myhostas.be/db/hostas/Bridegroom
Hosta Library - http://www.hostalibrary.org/b/bridegroom.html

: 'Bridegroom' - July 18

: 'Bridegroom' bloom - July 18

ViolaAnn · Post by **ViolaAnn** » Aug 29, 2012 10:03 am

: 'Bridegroom', July 15, 2012

Only slight growth this past year for this one.

: leaf, June 19, 2012

plantbug · Post by **plantbug** » Aug 29, 2012 12:37 pm

Nice pictures. Mine is too far gone for a picture.

ViolaAnn · Post by **ViolaAnn** » Aug 29, 2012 4:08 pm

I Love digital cameras and I try to take pictures of all the hostas once a week; so I end up with quite a few to choose from. I've found I get the best pics on a cloudy day and we've had precious few of them this year; so I don't have as many pics as usual. Hostas being in the shade already, if it's too shady - like rainy, it's often too dark to get good pics w/o flash which distorts the colour.

ViolaAnn · Post by **ViolaAnn** » Aug 21, 2014 3:49 pm

'Bridegroom' in 2014. It always blooms prolifically.

ViolaAnn · Post by **ViolaAnn** » Sep 15, 2015 8:44 am

2015 July 3. As I mentioned above, this one always blooms prolifically. But it also always looks wilted even when it isn't too dry. I decided it doesn't thrill me and since real estate is tight in my city garden, I've divided it up for the Hort. Society next spring and planted something I like better where it was.

Eleven · Post by **Eleven** » Sep 17, 2015 2:07 pm

Funny you decided to get rid of it, Ann. This is one that has never interested me. I can understand it looking blah at a nursery, but even in gardens it just seems lacking. I do admit to being tempted when it's a large plant on sale.

Tigger · Post by **Tigger** » Sep 17, 2015 3:05 pm

I think Bridegroom adds great texture in a garden, and is a great bloomer as well. It looks great in a hosta show (or in a flower arrangement). One of the blue ribbons I got in Raleigh was for this entry. I honestly thought it would do better (for a Best of Section); maybe the judges saw something I didn't.

David

: Bridegroom leaf AHS show.jpg (25.61 KiB) Viewed 2443 times

ViolaAnn · Post by **ViolaAnn** » Sep 17, 2015 5:02 pm

Nice leaf. But mine is divided up unless I decide to keep one of the divisions at the last moment. I've been know to do that.

redcrx · Post by **redcrx** » May 27, 2016 11:01 am

I got a surprise this morning. I was out weeding my front and most overgrown flower bed. The sun started cooking me so I moved to the back yard and started moving pots around and cleaning them up. One of the pots was Bridegroom which I didn't know I had. It was, I thought, just a little solid green plant I got from Art Wrede's Azaela Patch in 2013. It hasn't had much form so far during the past couple of years but it's finally matured enough to see what it really is.