June question

caliloo · Post by **caliloo** » Apr 02, 2008 8:55 am

Just to add a little confusion... here is my June, 3rd year in the ground on the west side of my house. Total shade until mid day, then bright sun for a couple of hours, then dappled shade from my neighbors pine trees...... note the narrow margins and bright color that does hold all season.

MollyD · Post by **MollyD** » Apr 02, 2008 9:37 am

Does it ever show the 'normal' coloring?

MollyD

Linda P · Post by **Linda P** » Apr 02, 2008 9:59 am

Alexa, that's exactly what mine looked like the first 4 years or so. I was really amazed when it began to change.
Linda P

planwerk · Post by **planwerk** » Apr 02, 2008 2:37 pm

Here are two of my Junes:
The blue one was in the shaded greenhouse, the yellow one under a willow with partial sun. Both are in containers and divisions from the same plant.

It is just such an amazing plant. If some gardener has to create a Hosta it would probably look like a mature June.

thy · Post by **thy** » Apr 02, 2008 5:50 pm

That pic would scare all newbies out of HL

But in fact.. it is h, Júne

Wondering... Where the heck is jgh... we have been talking about h. June for a while

Not in Guacamale, not in China...... retired people

MollyD · Post by **MollyD** » Apr 02, 2008 5:59 pm

My June changes like those two pictures over the course of the summer but it is never all green!

MollyD

renaldo75 · Post by **renaldo75** » Apr 04, 2008 1:29 pm

Hej, Pia!! Pay attention

jgh put in his 2 cents worth near the bottom of the 2nd page of this thread.

I have one June & a bunch of its sports & sibling sports, but last spring when I was rearranging things in the bed where June is located, I took off a couple of divisions and planted them about 4-6 feet east of where June is planted. The original plant gets a lot of sun from midday after it clears the neighbor's tall trees on the east & it receives afternoon sun until about 5pm & when my house blocks it. Its center has always stayed pretty yellow until later in the summer when it is more of a dark, dusty chartreuse green. I wanted to see how having no real light but dappled would effect the coloring on the new plant. It's shaded by very tall oaks, a redbud, and spirea bushes so there's not much light that will filter down to it. Last summer there was a very noticeable difference between the 2. And I'll get to enjoy my 2 light-induced variations of June soon I hope.

I think this debate about June rages at least once a year on here.

I looked up what Mark Zilis wrote about variations in June in the Hosta Handbook & here's what he says: "There has been a bit of debate about the "true" form of .June'. Some say it should have a light center, others say darker. The true plant undergoes significant seasonal changes. In the spring the leaf center is light green (overlaid with a bluish bloom), but turns medium or light gold by early July (in northern Illinois). Under deep shade the center will remain chartreuse. The two other sports of 'Halcyon' noted here ['Goldbrook Glimmer' & 'Paradise Joyce'] differ in the ultimate intensity of the gold center."

MollyD · Post by **MollyD** » Apr 04, 2008 3:34 pm

So Zillis is saying it's never all green ??????

Hi Reynaldo! Long time no see!!
I don't understand why June should start a lot of talk about different Junes because of it's color changes when almost every hosta changes over the seasons!

MollyD

jgh · Post by **jgh** » Apr 04, 2008 4:03 pm

Hi, Reldon! I've been gone a couple of months... sounds like you haven't been around too much either... nothing like 'June' to bring out the lurkers!

thy · Post by **thy** » Apr 04, 2008 6:10 pm

Hej Reldon

Not only have you been gone for months, but then you'r back telling me I have been sleeping in the class

You are right

Was sure a talk about h. June would effect a nerve in Jim where ever he was

So, ready for spring and a follow up on all your "building a wall garden"

Wellcome back

Pia

baja220 · Post by **baja220** » Apr 04, 2008 7:35 pm

Reldon, your back!!!!!!!

It's good to see you!!! Please don't leave, we all missed you!!

renaldo75 · Post by **renaldo75** » Apr 05, 2008 2:17 am

Thanks for the nice welcomes.

It's good to be back.

Pia - my wall garden should be interesting this year. It was well shaded by the tall [3-4 feet] weeds I never had time to pull last year. That was the 1st bed I tackled a couple of weeks ago when I started my spring cleanup. But I'm afraid there's enough weed seeds in there now to carry thru til the next millenium...

Good thing I don't mind pulling them.

jobranch · Post by **jobranch** » Apr 06, 2008 6:51 pm

Notice the difference in my H. June - again the photo from late last summer after being in deep shade...

Same hosta today...

MollyD · Post by **MollyD** » Apr 06, 2008 7:27 pm

That is a dramatic difference! I've never seen that before and don't know anyone else who's June does that!!
Glad mine doesn't! She darkens a bit over the summer but never becomes all green like yours. Have you tried moving yours into more sun when it's starting to darken? Just curious here.

MollyD

thy · Post by **thy** » Apr 06, 2008 8:28 pm

HOW DID YOU GET THAT COLOR ???

Mine will be dusty blue in deep shade
Have it been in shade all growing season or....?

jobranch · Post by **jobranch** » Apr 06, 2008 8:29 pm

This was purchased very late in the summer, so this is the first year in my hosta bed - have not yet determined what it's current location will do to the color. The deep shade I mentioned was at the nursery where it was purchased.

Thy, I have not done anything unusual as far as placement to enhance the color. Just put in a spot where it would complement the hostas adjacent to it.

Jeff

thy · Post by **thy** » Apr 06, 2008 8:41 pm

Do not know
But are sure I would never see that coloration in the garden

So a greenhouse with heavy shadecloth is my guess... seen some strane coloration due to that

´The ´colors inthe last,... looking like a h. June is like a June in a sunny location here... but lovely
Hard to wait for them.....

sugar · Post by **sugar** » Apr 07, 2008 4:23 pm

thy wrote: Hard to wait for them.....

Not over here, it's up allready. Hard to keep it up, with all the night freezes ...

Tom

thy · Post by **thy** » Apr 07, 2008 9:06 pm

Sugar. sugar...please

Thought you had passed by the weather we have... spring in the day- winther in the nights- fiosts came late this year
Minus 15 C by my friends in southrn mid jutland... minus 12 C in Copenhagen...
minus 8 C in my garden..... all late March.
Sure I will have some strange leave tips this year

Out and in they go... the rest is out in the garden and I am crossing my fingers

sugar · Post by **sugar** » Apr 08, 2008 2:22 pm

it's just -1°C to -3°C

All plants are showing noses now, except for Praying Hands (the last plant to appear last year as well)

I have 3 hosta with flower stalks ...

Hallson Gardens

June question

Major color change in my H. June