Hosta Leaves #2
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Hosta Leaves #2
Here's another batch of leaves from the summer of 2005.
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- Sum of All looked pretty good that year. It definitely needs to be freed from the clutches of the crab apple roots this year.
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- Pizzazz is always in my Top 25 of Favorite Hostas.
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- Jimmy Crack Corn looked fantastic in 2005. Next spring it was no more. [I think the neighborhood cats made use of that spot - another hosta went missing there too.] I did replace JCC last year.
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Another group. 
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- Last summer I moved ventricosa Aureomarginata to a place where it can shine instead of compete with Silk Kimono [and lose].
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- Another Olive Bailey Langdon leaf with the margin color streaking all the way to the center.
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- This one is a little too close - but Moonlight always has one or 2 leaves that have a bit of blue between the center & margin colors.
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I'll try this again. I got 'The Page Cannot Be Found' after my 1st pic in this batch finally started to attach...
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- Back to 2005 & Whirlwind's summer coloring. It found a new home last summer too. Now it can be the star in its own family grouping. Second Wind is already nearby & I hope to add Dust Devil this year.
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- But I think it looked even better in 2006.
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- Sagae looked good in 2005.
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Last batch for today.
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- Diana Remembered looked wonderful in 2005, but it's another victim of crab apple roots & didn't look even 1/2 as good last year.
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- Krossa Regal had lost most of its blue by the end of July, but I like the deeply impressed veins.
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- Abiqua Moonbeam got a new home last spring in a family trio with August Moon & September Sun. I must have planted it a little deeper than it had been because it was noticeably shorter than in 2005.
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Leaf shots
Great leaf shots - I will have to take more like yours this coming season. They really look great!
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newtohosta-no more
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Very nice, Ren. Your closeups are really good. Some of mine are fuzzy. I guess I have trouble holding that camera real still and focusing. 
I'm going to try and get a nice pic of each hosta this year, as well as a close up of the leaves. But, like you said, some years they look better than others. I've got some tree root problems too.
I'm going to try and get a nice pic of each hosta this year, as well as a close up of the leaves. But, like you said, some years they look better than others. I've got some tree root problems too.-
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Thanks, Joan & Rachel. I use my monitor to center & take the pics like this [and a lot of others] rather than looking thru the viewfinder. Some of these are a bit on the fuzzy side to me. But the worst ones were all deleted long ago. 
LOL I would go out & take some pics - then come in & download them & see which were decent & which were crap & go back out & take more pics of the ones that didn't look good. And some of them took 3 or 4 tries before I got a good shot.
I use my monitor to center & take the pics like this [and a lot of others] rather than looking thru the viewfinder. Some of these are a bit on the fuzzy side to me. But the worst ones were all deleted long ago. LOL I would go out & take some pics - then come in & download them & see which were decent & which were crap & go back out & take more pics of the ones that didn't look good. And some of them took 3 or 4 tries before I got a good shot.