Hallson Gardens

Bruce will be missed greatly! Another chapter closes in the world of hostas. My condolences to his family and may they take comfort in knowing he touched many lives for the better.

Nice pattern to the flower, Ed!

This will give you an idea of how rhizomatous it is.. look at the drain holes.... And here's what the flowers look like...

I'll post some pictures of the real thing once I'm @ my home computer again, but clausa var. normalis flowers are much darker in color and NOT branched. Leaf seems a smidgen too wide as well and it doesn't appear to exhibit the rhizomatous nature of subject plant either. There are 4 species on Don's...

There were 8 scapes this year and all the flowers were fused. As you can see from the development of the middle flower in the picture there is pod development, but once they got to a certain stage they all aborted. The 2nd picture shows the pod development a bit better. Resize of P1160397_tousledhai...

I have a similar thing happening with a Hacksaw/Ray of Hope seedling I call "Tousled Hair". The flowers are fused, like the ones you're showing, but I haven't bothered to do the surgery, I just let them be. Pods started to develop but they have all aborted. I'll have to make a point next year of ope...

I got another surprise when I got a profile photo showing different lengths of the stamen. This suggests to me a yingeri is involved. I would think laevigata, which is nearby, but I thought it was sterile. There is a 'Korean Snow' off a-ways and my gravel weedling (probable seedling of Korean Snow)...

According to Schmid (my emphasis): Plant size 30 cm dia., 15 cm high (12 by 6 in.). Petiole 7.5 by 0.4 cm (3 by 0.15 in. wide) spreading horizontally, light green. Leaf 15-20 by 5-8 cm (6-8 by 2-3 in.), or +larger; elliptical to lanceolate, petiole-leaf transition decurrent, acuminate, very elongate...

David, while I don't know what other species there may have been around, the seeds were collected in situ in Japan from what I'm told. Odds are I'll see him again in about 3-4 weeks or so and I'll make a point of asking him some more questions but I have no reason to believe this plant is not as cla...

Here's a picture from yesterday of the plant, with a couple of cropped close-ups of the flowers.

Ed, like most Hosta species, this species is quite variable. I have a seedling from seed collected in the wild, had it for about 3 years. As you can see this one has reddish petioles and the flowers are virtually all-white. Resize of P1150725_kikutii_scape.JPG Resize of P1150953_kikutii_flower.JPG R...

I'm thinking 'Stiletto', Ed.

Ed, after seeing your picture of the 'Rhino Hide' flower I thought I'd better check to see what's up with the 'Rhino Gold' flowers and here's a crop of the original flower shot in my 'Rhino Gold' posting, and sure enough there's fuzzy bits there too! crop-P7050033_rhinogold_flowers_fasciated.jpg cro...

Don Rawson was kind enough to share a 2 shoot division of 'Rhino Gold' with me last year. Unlike 'Rhino Hide' this one apparently is a diploid, not a tetraploid, and Don has his doubts about its garden worthiness and doesn't think it'll go into production. It's a slow grower, like 'Rhino Hide', and ...

I recognize this is an older topic but I had to relate my experience with The Empress, she's been a great grower for me. I got two bare-root plants in 2014, one was 3 shoots, the other was one fat one. I kept the 3 shoot one and planted it where it would have some room but that also meant it would b...

Finally buckled under and purchased one this spring after I saw a most unusual one at a local nursery. This one almost looks like 2 different plants but in reality one shoot has fasciated, as you can see from the scape in the 2nd picture. Resize of P1150435_wheee!.JPG Resize of P1150876_wheee_fascia...

P1130926_fragrantblue_flowers.JPG Here's a shot from last year of the flowers and plenty-o-pods. I bought my original plant in 2005 and it wasn't until 2009 before I smelled the fragrance of the flowers, and it's rather different from the multitude of plantaginea crosses like 'Guacamole', 'Fragrant...

Thanks, Ann, but as of a couple of days ago 'Yellowknife' is no more.... Sooner or later another yellow seedling will come along deserving of the moniker.

You bet you can, haven't you seen all the posts asking for ID? Welcome to the forum and ask away and provide as much detail as possible, hi-res pictures, preferably taken with a camera and not a phone, and take pictures of the whole plant, in situ, a close-up of a leaf and if you can a picture of th...

Ed, that almost looks as if you have TWO kinds of virii showing in some of these shots: HVX and TRS. I've never seen examples of the sort of moire pattern you see in the first picture as being representative of HVX, so it's gotta be something else I'd say.