Late Emerging Hostas

[Don Rawson]

Help me out with any additions or revisions to my list of late emrging hostas. Thank you.

LATE EMERGING HOSTAS

‘American Icon’
‘Aphrodite’
‘Black Hills’
‘Bright Lights’
‘Choko Nishiki’
‘Cutting Edge’
‘Deep Blue Sea’
‘Eskimo Pie’
‘Eternal Flame’
‘Fortunei’ cultivars
‘Francee’
‘Fujibotan’
‘Gold Standard’
‘Green Fountain’
‘Grey Ghost’
‘Honeybells’
‘Independence’
‘Inniswood’
‘Jimmy Crack Corn’
‘Kinkaku’
‘Manhattan’
‘Mountain Snow’
‘Mountain Sunrise’
‘Mr. Big’
‘Paradise Power’
‘Praying Hands’
‘On Stage’
‘Orange Marmalade’
‘Revolution’
‘Rhino Hide’
‘Snow Cap’
‘Stained Glass’
‘Sugar Daddy’
‘Summer Snow’
‘Tokudama’
‘Tokudama Aureonebulosa’
‘Tokudama Flavocircinalis’
‘Topaz’
‘Woolly Mammoth’
‘Yellow River’

[guardbear]

Although I just planted Hollywood Lights last year, I would suggest it for a late emerger perhaps. Until a week ago, I thought I had lost it over the winter which would have been my first to lose in year #1. Currently, it is just an unfurled eye barely 2 inches out of ground while everything else in the yard in Central Indiana is big and pushing each other around. For several years Lakeside Black Satin and Heat Wave are always way behind the others for me as well - but not as late as Hollywood LIghts appears to be. Maybe others have some additional experience with it as well.
Linda

[Linda P]

Yes, Hollywood LIghts is just coming up, while most of my hostas are unfurled.
Paradise Backstage, as a reverse On Stage, is one of the last ones up.
Another very late one for me, and every year I think perhaps I've lost it, is Blue Seer.

Linda P

[renaldo75]

Blue Seer is always my last to come up.

Heat Wave I just got last summer, but it's up with everything else.

After looking at your list, I see a lot that I don't think of as late emerging.

[Tigger]

First Mate (tetraploid Kabitan?) was later than most. Is there a general trend for tetraploid hostas to come up later than their diploid progenitor?

[kaylyred]

'Francee' was actually my first to show pips this year, but has been slower than all the rest since then. It's still sitting at nub-stage.

Definitely agree with Tokudama flavocircinalis; that one's poky for me.

Might consider adding: 'Royal Standard,' 'Frances Williams,' and 'Krossa Regal.' All of those are usually some of the last ones up in my garden. I wonder if the age of the plant has anything to do with it? These are all fairly new additions.

[Noreaster]

I feel like mine all emerge with eyes at roughly the same time in the Spring...the exception being the ones on the north side of the house which is shaded and lower lying than the rest of the garden. But some seem to be faster to grow and unfurl than others. I never really feel like I'm waiting for one to show up, though.

[ViolaAnn]

My 'Gypsy Rose' is quite late to emerge as is 'Ice Age Trail'. Haven't yet seen 'On Stage' and a number of others have just had little pips showing for some time, but haven't unfurled.

However, 'On Stage' is the only one of my nearly 150 varieties that has not yet shown up. It will. It's ALWAYS last.

[redcrx]

Time Tunnel is very late for me. Most of mine are up. I haven't looked for On Stage yet, it's alway late.

Tigger mentioned First Mate being late while mine was about the first one up and we are not that far apart.

I did notice something really strange this season. I have two Risky Business that are side by side. Both bought the same time, looked the same when bought, looked the same last year. This year one is completely unfurled and the other is bearly nubs coming up. The freaky temps this season are confusing them.

[ViolaAnn]

Not late emergers, but I have two divisions of Halcyon - I split the plant last year. They are about 10 feet apart in the garden and one is completely unfurled while the other is just pips.

[sugar]

While there are some plants that are every year consistently earlier then the others, I don't have a plant that is late every year.

I have noticed that plants in pots are earlier up then those in the groud, and that plants in the sun are emerging earlier then others, I think this is a every important driver to consider for a lot of observations.