Hallson Gardens

Thanks everyone :P this hosta just glows in person. HostaDesigner and Pieter :lol: good detective work 8-) All my seedlings are grown in pots in a soiless mixture in hoophouses with 50% shadecloth. The background is simply a length of weedguard fabric, supported on three metal rods to form a triangu...

This hybrid seedling has a small size and leaves that are very rigid, taken yesterday,

This is a new fragrant hybrid from this years seedlings. When it first bloomed under the high intensity lighting, indoors, I noticed it had a different fragrance than any other fragrant hosta, or any of my other hybrids .. It has been my experience that the fragrance in hosta, my hybrids or otherwis...

I took this pic after a thunderstorm this afternoon

Hi Doug :P I put a lot of effort into dark blue and non fading golds, I have a great selection of dark streaked hybrids that I crossedwith my busiest piecrusted seedlings last year I am hopeful of some good plants down the road. I took this pic of one late today, Joranch, :P thanks for your comment....

Don't give up 'E.L.' pollen has made for some wonderfull plants here try it on your favorite streak

:lol: @ Wishiwere, Both pics are the same flower. The first pic is MD photographed in direct full sunlight. The second front shot is under more shaded conditions. This flower starts off with a crimson red pedicle and Tubus Angustus and blends into a fuscia up the lobes and is red again on the lobe t...

This seedling is an off-spring of 'Chalk Wave'
the dusty blue/white coat give it a ghostly appearance

The center pattern in the leaves on this hosta are reminiscent of a particular herb many of us indulged in our youth, but I never inhaled.

I posted this hosta of mine on hostapix a few weeks ago and was asked to post it here

an un-named seedling taken yesterday

Just opened yesterday, one of my favorites

clicking phone lines keep disconecting my dial up

Thanks guys
Charla, I fertilize with a water soluable fert.
one made for tomatoes is a good choice.

Years ago Lisa Putnam sent me some seeds from her hosta 'Dorothy Benidict'. She sent me a whole pod that was crushed in the mail
I was thinking of the way she signs off,
later, love Lisa
Here is a leaf, taken yesterday,

Thanks guys
this post was just to show hosta newbies how streaked seedlings typicaly stablize.
This hybrid seedling was divided into the two leaf forms shown in the above pic a few weeks ago.
Taken yesterday, both in five gal pots.

He once was a little green blob of clay...'Gumby'

I like the look of this plant. I have had similar things happen to seedlings of mine but they were never good growers, Any growth reports from purchasers ?

Masterfull shot !!

typical stablization