Hallson Gardens

Thank you, Ginger.

Linda is right about the Halcyon family too. I noticed back in August in a friend's garden that while most looked a bit fried even if they were in bloom that anything in the Halcyon/June family still had the substance to look good.

Amazingly after all of the excess water in the garden and then the heat and then more excess water.... you get the idea. What looks the best are the fragrants [although a lot still look pretty good - while others are fried] - Iron Gate Glamour looks like spring and sent up a scape that's about halfw...

VERY nice!! You'll like those, Pia!!

Thanks for the prayers and kind words everyone. I'm planning to attend the funeral tomorrow. I'll let Kit know that everyone here has her in their thoughts. I'll share what she wrote on the Hostaseedgrower's forum: I want to thank everyone for their thoughts and prayers. We were lucky in that Gary h...

Pat - if you want to see what Dick's registered hostas are, go to the Hosta Library. Click on 'Hosta Reg.' at the lower right side [in red next to Hugo's Database]. The Registrar's page comes up in a new window. Click on 'Search' and then enter 'd. & j. ward' in the Hybridizer [OINR] box & click on ...

For several years, kitgary has posted occaisionally & kept up on things here on Hallsons. Gary has been battling lung cancer this year, and Thursday morning he passed away. I first met Kit and Gary at a convention several years ago, and we have been at some of the same events here in Iowa together. ...

That's a telling pic, Jim. I see Yin advertised in several online catalogs. But never see Yang in any of them.
Sounds like a great marketing strategy on paper. I wonder if Jim Wilkin's original Yang was a good plant
and it just lost its 'oomph' in tc.

Pat - Dick Ward is a hosta hybridizer [and a good friend of Van Wade's]. This year he was awarded the Alex Summers Distinguished Merit award at the MN convention.

World Cup. I'd never paid any attention to it until I saw Doug Beilstein's. It was in a pergola type structure. All the other hostas there were fried or had sun burn damage. Not World Cup - it looked like it had just unfurled in spring. Amazing plant - totally upright, bright yellow, heavy corrugati...

I like that extreme case of 'Pinochio syndrome'!!
I hope you see it again next year.

I hope the day went well at Hidden Lake. Linda P and I enjoyed it when we were at Hallson's last month. I pulled a couple of weeds that were in the way of hosta pics I wanted. :wink: And I saw the plants that Van Wade was taking up presumably for the auction. He had a nice cartload he told the Altma...

Once again a group of very nice looking hostas!! Glad you have such good luck with Fireworks!! I was not so fortunate.

Hmmmm.... does the whole plant look thus??

I'd re-test in a couple of weeks and see what it says then. OR....
After hearing Dr. Lockhart's speech, maybe wait until spring when it's actively growing and re-test.

I'd love to find a streaked Pewterware!! It's one of the nicest, longest lasting blues in my garden this year.

Paul - I need the PM about Picasa too. I find its 'hostile takeover' of all the pics on my computer to be more than annoying.

Those are all definitely keepers. They'll just keep getting better as they mature.
Warwick Comet is one that I have that's definitely fun to watch.
Love that center and the cupping and corrugation.
But yours are all doing great!!

Those all look great, Paul!! And I like your presentation a lot too.
And you have some really nice ones in the group. Definitely a bunch of good ones.

Thanks, Chris - I didn't realize that.
Not many are sending out new flushes right now that I've noticed.
They may after all of the rain we've had though.

One more observation on my new Seducer too. It has just 3 leaves from the spring and all have lost their margins which were fairly narrow as I recall. But yesterday when I went past it, I noticed that the 2 new [in the last couple of weeks] leaves have much wider margins. It'll be interesting to wat...

Thanks for all of the nice pics, Paul.

I've been enjoying the cardinal family here too. I got to see the baby on an
early flight lesson several weeks ago. Papa was very attentive and Mama was
close by too. Pretty neat.