A few from today 5/8
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A few from today 5/8
Sagae will always be in my top 5 all time favorites.
Medusa is rapidly becoming a favorite. This one has doubled since last year and stayed really bright and nice for me all season.
Topaz - haven't heard a lot about this one. Beautiful powdery blue with white leaf backs.
Spilt Milk - I just don't get the appeal.... not attractive at all IMHO.
Blue Clown - new last year. Looking forward to it putting on some growth.
Thanks for looking!
Alexa
Medusa is rapidly becoming a favorite. This one has doubled since last year and stayed really bright and nice for me all season.
Topaz - haven't heard a lot about this one. Beautiful powdery blue with white leaf backs.
Spilt Milk - I just don't get the appeal.... not attractive at all IMHO.
Blue Clown - new last year. Looking forward to it putting on some growth.
Thanks for looking!
Alexa
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Medusa
Medusa will have to be on my list - very nice.
Sagae is also a favorite of mine and I think I have 5 of them.
Sagae is also a favorite of mine and I think I have 5 of them.
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Blue Clown is a new one for me this year as well, and I'm glad I bought it. A very attractive plant...
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Topaz is one of Iowa hybridizer, Greg Johnson's intros. It's a really nice medium blue color that stays that way most of the season. It fits in nicely with a group of Tardianas I have in one bed. And the bonus with Topaz is that it's fast growing for a blue. I got it and another of Greg's intros - Tequila Sunrise - at the same time in early 2003 before I even knew who he was. LOL Didn't even know they were from the same hybridizer until later - or that he was in one hosta club I joined.
Mooie beat me to it, but I could offer that nice Spilt Milk a good home too. Mine is still alive - sending up 2 or 3 tiny eyes after the cold weather. It'll be 10 years [at least] before it ever comes close to looking as good as the one you don't care for....
Mooie beat me to it, but I could offer that nice Spilt Milk a good home too. Mine is still alive - sending up 2 or 3 tiny eyes after the cold weather. It'll be 10 years [at least] before it ever comes close to looking as good as the one you don't care for....
Thanks everyone!
I think what I don't like about Spilt Milk is that the misting looks like half washed off bird poop to me.... If it wasn't misted, just puckery I would probably love it, but then it would't be "milk" either BTW - this one is 3rd year in my garden so I guess it is "leaping".
Thanks for the info on Topaz, Reldon. I really like it a lot and think it should be more popular. It is a good grouwer for me too.
I'm glad everyone likes Medusa too - I think it is just terrific!
Thanks again for all the nice comments
Alexa
I think what I don't like about Spilt Milk is that the misting looks like half washed off bird poop to me.... If it wasn't misted, just puckery I would probably love it, but then it would't be "milk" either BTW - this one is 3rd year in my garden so I guess it is "leaping".
Thanks for the info on Topaz, Reldon. I really like it a lot and think it should be more popular. It is a good grouwer for me too.
I'm glad everyone likes Medusa too - I think it is just terrific!
Thanks again for all the nice comments
Alexa
Spring - An experience in immortality.
- Henry D. Thoreau
- Henry D. Thoreau
Another interesting thing about Topaz is that it is a seedling out of the same pod that Everlasting Love is from. Everlasting Love is variegated - green w/a cream margin. And when Mark Zilis spoke to the ROHS group several years ago, he said that it was Topaz & Everlasting Love that were on the cover of The Hosta Handbook. Pic was taken in Greg Johnson's garden. I'd always wondered what the hostas on the cover were & there's no identification in the book.