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addieotto
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Please help solve my mystery

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As I mentioned in my recent thread of garden photos, I have an unidentified hosta. This is pretty embarrassing for me because I do two things in life: work and garden. I have no social life. :-?

I obsessively mark and record all of my hosta. Every so often I buy something unidentified found in a corner of a nursery but at least I know that in advance. What is most annoying to me is I knew exactly what hosta this was but the information has been lost. I'm tempted to dig it up to see if there's a plant marker buried nearby...

What might make this mystery easier to solve is I have a very thorough list (on my website) of all hosta I have ever purchased. But yet I have painstakingly gone through the list to try to match every hosta on the list to every plant in my gardens and NO LUCK! :x

To make matters worse, although it is gorgeous, it's not exactly the most unique hosta I've ever seen by a longshot :( :???: .

Anyhoo... here's my unknown. I would appreciate any guesses in the remote chance I did not list this plant on the site :roll: and if you want to try to match him up to a name on my list you can find it here: http://myhostagardens.com/ I don't remember what the flowers are like or when it flowers but if someone has a guess I can try to match it up that way later in the summer.
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Not on your list

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Its not on your list but it could be a Pacific Blue Edger.
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Post by toymr2mk2 »

How about Sherborne Swift? The HL doesn't have many pics so I did a google search and came up with some nice pics that closely resemble yours.
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I don't remember ever getting Pacific Blue Edger... but I'll keep it on the list as a possible!!

Ahhh ... Sherborne Swift. Very pretty blue. I know exactly where he is, always been in a back bed here: Image
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Post by HostaDesigner »

The color, form, and slight rugosity reminds me of H. 'Aoki' but that one isn't on your list... :???:
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Post by renaldo75 »

This is just for the he(( of it - but maybe it's a bastardized Halcyon. :o It's late. I'd just commented on your other post. I couldn't resist. :wink: :lol: :lol:
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Rendaldo - Couldn't resist but that's not a half bad thought... especially because I thought I had Halcyon at one point then "realized" I didn't and bought one. So maybe I have two HalcyonNOTs.
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Post by largosmom »

Hmmm, guess there is no chance they've been a propogatin' behind your back is there?

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LOL! If they have, I need to put in some special requests for shape and color of the offspring!
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Post by maidofshade »

I'm still wondering what's wrong with work and gardening :lol: :lol: :roll: Isn't this social???? :wink:
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something about the leaf...

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No picture in the hosta library of anything other than the leaf, but could it be Ultramarine?
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Depending on the size ... and flower ...
A couple of leaves put me in mind of Osprey ... perhaps a relative?
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