I show you my favorite- does anybody know the name????

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Rosenzobel
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I show you my favorite- does anybody know the name????

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Hello- ( first excuse my bad english again... I am from Germany )...

I m glad to found this forum-because I have some Probs with Virus X.... But now I want to show you my healthy plants- this one is one of my favorites ( don´t know the name :cry: ). may you can help me..???

Here it is :

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this Hosta is nearly 7 Years old.

And here is my new Hosta Bed:

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thanks for watching my pics...

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I think that looks like a mature Gold Standard.
Very nice!
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I agree with Dave, that's a nice Gold Standard.

Beautiful gardens Melanie, :D thanks for sharing with us.
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Ja, ich glaub der gute Dave hat recht.
Yes, I'll go with Dave for this one.

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Very pretty plants in your hosta garden. Is that spring this year?
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gold standard ????? can´t believe that - becaus all the g.s. i´ve seen here look so different from this one....
does´nt matter . I love it anyway...
It is getting to become a realy huge one in the middle of the year- may I show you some photos than...

Thanks for your nice comments

@ planwerk: ja ich weiß mein Englisch ist grausam...;-))))

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P.S.: Its a pic from yesterday.
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Meins ist auch nicht besser :lol:
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Beautiful!
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Manche aus uns konnen sie verstehen.
(trans: some of us can understand you)
and you're very good, no need to apologise for 'bad' English.

What is Irrtum?
Must be something bad.
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The big one is beautiful, but doesn't look like 'Gold Standard' to me. Too much white on the back of the leaves. Looks more like 'Bright Lights'. If it has good white blooms in June (the month) then it isn't 'GS'.

Do you know the Hosta Library (www.hostalibrary.org) ? Look at pictures of 'Bright Lights' by Hank Zumach (a regular visitor here).

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I don't think Bright Lights can get that big in 8 to 10 years, maybe ever.
My second thought was Paul's Glory, I don't know if it was available 10 years ago. Also, was it bought at a nursery that specialized in unusual hostas, or had pretty common ones?
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I would like to learn more German gardening language, and my German is very rusty, so please use both if you can.

Mein Deutsch ist nicht so gut!

I lived in Spangdahlem (North from Trier, near Belgium and Luxembourg) from 1989 to 1994.

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Post by thy »

I went to look at mine,... it's from Chris, so I'm sure it is correct

Can be the pic, but the margins are more bright on mine and the white back side shows of more this time of year
Wir sind 80 oder so miles from each other.. you can figure that out :wink:

Glad to join the confusion :roll: :lol:

Where did you get the hosta ?

Love the second pic of your garden... just beautiful :wink:
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Post by newtohosta-no more »

I leave the IDing to the experts here, since I am terrible at it, but I do want to say that it is a lovely hosta and a beautiful hosta bed! Thanks for sharing the pics! :D
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Post by Rosenzobel »

Hello u!... :D

Thank u for your help but i´m not sure if my plant is really gold Standard...... The leaves are "crinkled" ( don´t know the name in english..... :oops: ) .

But here I´ve got a new Riddle for you.... :wink:
I also don´t know the name of this one.... :oops: .. Its 4 or 5 Years in my garden. Thougt it could be Blue Arrows- but than I saw pics of blue A. and the leaves are a bit longer than these on my plant...what do you think??

Here are Fotos from today:
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Heigh is nearly 50 cm .

And this one I also don´t know the name- must be a Standard Hosta- becaus I´ve got it from a local market 10 years ago- may you can help me again..??????:
Its the really big one ( nearly 60 cm) on the left side:
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....So thats enogh of my "unknown Hostas".... :wink:
I thank u a lot for helping me finding the names of it...

greetz

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Post by Kent »

Could be Paradigm????

I'm back to the first hosta...(I'm a little slow :lol: )


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Post by planwerk »

The blue one could be Devon Blue: no signs of slug damage, slightlx wavy, pretty blue, good grower.

The green/white one might be fortunei albomarginata. Correct me if i'm not right.

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1st hosta pic,
I have a picture of a 8 year old Gold Standard, to use as a comparison

a hosta rookie
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Post by thy »

fortunei albomarginata if it do not set seedpods

crispula if it set a lot of seedpods :D

My Krossa Regal is not as tall as I think it should be... but maybe more than 50 cm around 10 inch :-?

most of the tardianas are rather low..30 to 40 centimeter
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Post by Linda P »

The first one, maybe Paradigm or Darwin's Standard.
The tall blue one, perhaps Krossa Regal?
The last green with white edge, I agree with planwerk.
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