Hostas in Japan

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gamekeeper
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Hostas in Japan

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This month Finegardening has an interview with a well known Nursery owner who was visisting plantsman in Japan .A local collector took him to a small Hosta breeder in a mountainous area (isolated) when the owner showed the Japanese collector a new plant he came up with the collector bought it immediately for 3500.00. T%he article can be seen online at Fine gardening.com
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Are you talking about this podcast? http://www.finegardening.com/item/22005 ... bage-patch I can't find any other article.
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i wonder what is the difference between nursery grown rectifolia versus wild collected?
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It was an article inside the back cover about Dan's trip.
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