Seedling from the Hosta Mill Garden wins NHV award

[Rob]

Hello everyone,

Last weekend the NHV (Dutch Hosta Society) celebrated its 20th Anniversary.
At this meeting, the "Best Hosta Introduction 2009" was chosen.

I'm proud to announce a Hosta Mill seedling won (in fact, it was my only seedling in the competition).
After it won, It was named Hosta 'Mill'


It's an OP H. 'Grand Slam' seedling.

A proud dad,

Rob

[govgirl75]

Congratulations!

[LucyGoose]

I love it!!!!

[Linda P]

It's an amazing seedling, Rob. You can bet that people around the world will be growing their Grand Slam seeds trying to get something that looks like this!
Congratulations, and much luck with it. I hope you will introduce it to the market one day soon!
Linda P

[caliloo]

Fantastic seedling! Congrats to the proud papa is right!

Alexa

[ViolaAnn]

Wonderful seedling. I too hope to see it available someday.
Ann

[Rob]

Thanks everyone,

I'm glad you like it.
About introducing it...
(...hesitating ...)
Well ... ehhh...
(... more hesitating ...)
In fact I was planning on making it a friendship plant.
A plant to give for free to hostafriends that are very dear and special to me.

The reason why ?
Hosta 'Mill' will always be a special plant to me, with a value I wouldn't like to be measured in nickles and dimes.
And, for the good news, I have 2 other GS seedlings that are smaller right now, but very simular to H. 'Mill', and, IMHO, just a tad better overall (more waves, better color).
Maybe, one day, ...

Greetings from The Hosta Mill

Rob

[flowerchild59]

That is quite a seedling and it deserves to win in any category.

[renaldo75]

Very nice. I like the idea of it being a friendship plant. There need to be some of those special plants moving from garden to garden as time goes on.

[Spider]

Beautiful!!

[scootersbear]

Absolutely BEAUTIFUL and I commend you on lack of greed.

[newtohosta-no more]

Congrats, Rob! That certainly is a fantastic looking hosta!

[thehostagourmet]

That is a nice looking seedling.

[Kent]

That is a beautiful hosta Rob! I really think you should have someone produce it for you...it would sell very well!

Kent

[Rob]

Thanks everyone,

I'm glad you think it's good enough for commercial introduction.
And I would be glad if everyone that wants this plant could buy it at a reasonable price.
On the other hand... I'm not in it for the money, especially not with this one.

I'm lost right now.
Luckily I'll have to wait a couple more years before it's all grown up, so plenty of time to think things through.
What's in the picture is all there is (4 shoots and one tiny shoot (seedling ??).
And there's still the possibility this pretty duckling growns into a real ugly swan.

Greetings,

Rob

PS: I've put more information about H. 'Mill' and the contest on the website.

[thy]

It is lovely

Best award from me is: If I haven't read your name I would have thought of Kent Terpening... and I love his hosta, they allways have .....just the slightly different, making them masters

One day I would love to grow it in my garden

Pia