Hallson Gardens

This is H. 'Ebb Tide' I'd like to see if I can isolate the really wide margined leaf this year. If I do I think the plant will be much smaller since there is very little green in the leaf.


Well that's it fon now.

Kent

Back to the ruffles or at least I hope so! I'm just watchng this one to see if it will form a nice looking clump..If not then it goes into the trash.

Another that I like yellow center and blue edge on a small plant. At least that is what I'm hoping for ina few years

This is the reverse of the one from above again a nice small hosta with glossy leaves that I wish would just settle out

Another one that has been frustrating me for years I have been working to isolate a decent uniform design on this seedling...One of these days My goal is to get all the leaves to look like those in the upper right corner.

This one was a surprise this year. It's a single division on one of my streaked breeders. It will be devided off this season and watched for a few years to see how it does. I really hope I can keep this wonderful wide green margin!

OK I'm almost done with this one just need to see how it holds up through the year and get it a bit bigger clump wise before I send this one off to the labs. It has great coloring almost like jH. 'June' but on a smaller plant with lance shaped leaves. I like it a lot!

This one is a few years old and is developing a nice rugose pattern on the leaf. I love plants that have great texture to them. I'm going to be adding Van Wades H. 'Clearfork River Valley' in my breeding over the next few years to see if I can get some of that great pebbeling.

This is a fairly new seedling about 5 years old out of streaked seedling from Dorothy Benedict. It's a true winner in my eyes and just needs to develope into a clump before I release it. Right now it's only a one division stable plant.

I thought I'd show you some pictures of hostas I'm working on. The process for most of these to come up with a finished plant can take years. Some of the following have been in my garden for up to ten years and they are still not where I want them to be. With varigated hostas finding the right leaf ...

Nice pics Fenceberry!

You do realize that Jay B Abenbendroth is going to get really really really really really big I've been to Steve's garden and seen the mother plant. It's going to eat up everything around it

Kent

I agree with Rob 100%!!!! But if you must shoot on a sunny day (this always happens when I'm at the hosta convention) bring a big umbrella to create shade. I think I'm the only one who prays for rain during the convention tours :roll: Now for those of you who remember the convention in DC...that was...

Actually...Alttara gave me the name. I do associate it with that wonderful song from ABBA.

Kent

Well Karma...Now you know what happens when you give hostas Brugmansia Tea

Kent

Chris, It was just like yours...I lefy it in the pot and put it in the ground in late fall. I was having some vole problems and I knew it was going to Walter's in the spring and I didn't want to chance vole damage. Well we had a mild winter with very little snow cover and with the early spring warm ...

Thanks everyone, yes it's totally mush, but hey what are you going to do? If you really think about it...it's just a hosta. Just why did it have to be that one

I've got lots of other things I'm working on so there's still more to come in the future

Kent

OK usually I can take it with a grain of salt when one of my hostas dies but...

I'm sad to say that my entire clump of Ribbon Dancer bit the dust this year. Yes it was the one and only clump and I was going to send it to Walter's this year to be TCed

So say good bye to my baby



Kent

Canon all the way for me. My good camers is the Rebel XT but the ones I use all the time are the Canon PowerShot SD600 and the PowerShot SD750 neither of these have the image stabilizer on them but I haven't found the need for this feature. Both are used for garden pics and also for underwater photo...

OK party is at Cheryl's house

Kent

WOW!!!!

Great looking seedlings Denise, let me know when you want to trade a section of the second one. I sure would like a division of that

Kent

PS Were these from Clovelly seed or Split Decision????