Calendar art

[rufie98]

Thank you for the additional flower photos. I can see there is so much variety to the purple flower. My favorite one is Ogon Tachi . . . love the stripes!

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Here is the Hosta Plant calendar from the 2013 season.

Almost

Almost

Aurora's Glow - Mid-July

Aurora's Glow - Mid-July

Aurora's Glow - Mid-August

Aurora's Glow - Mid-August

Don Quixote

Don Quixote

First Frost

First Frost

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Foxfire Palm Sunday & Luna Moth

Foxfire Palm Sunday & Luna Moth

Fragrant King

Fragrant King

Front lawn group with Kinbuchi Tachi

Front lawn group with Kinbuchi Tachi

Kiwi Full Monty & Alan Titchmarsh & Striptease

Kiwi Full Monty & Alan Titchmarsh & Striptease

Night before Christmas

Night before Christmas

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Scene from the bridge

Scene from the bridge

Kiwi Fully Monty and June

June

rectifolia 'Nakai'

rectifolia 'Nakai'

Bill Brinka

Bill Brinka

[rufie98]

Almost is a very nice hosta indeed! Aurora's Glow has such interesting margins. First Frost---I love that hosta! I had had an opportunity to purchase a good size Luna Moth for a decent price and passed on it! Now every time I see a photo of it I am reminded of my poor decision. Pretty group picture with the azalea's(?) blooming. The photo of Kiwi Full Monty, Alan Titchmarsh & Striptease is great! All very nice redcrx!

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Yes, those are azaleas in flower mixed in with the hosta.

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We got lucky with the storm. We had 8 inches Friday night. It let up around 11 AM and we only had light flurries for about 11 hours. Then we got about 2 inches as the storm pulled away. I had cleared the 8 inches Saturday afternoon so there wasn't much to do Sunday except open the driveway where the plows had piled it and dig out the mailbox. I'm about 40 miles west of Atlantic City. Many areas were getting 2 feet or more of snow.

Here is the calendar from 2014 for some nice warm pictures.

Aomori Gold Star

Aomori Gold Star

Seedling from Art Wrede's collection

Seedling with spots

Seedlings from Art Wrede's collection - the spotted one is the same as above but 10 days later

Seedlings

Lawn garden group - this group was on the 2013 calendar also

Lawn garden group

Mystic Star

Mystic Star

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Unknown

unknown

Red Dog & Paradise Island

Red Dog & Paradise Island

Ripple Effect

Ripple Effect

Sarah's Sensation

Sarah's Sensation

Group with Designer Genes, Candy Dish and Wolverine

Group with Designer Genes

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White Bikini sporting

White Bikini sporting

Yellow Polka Dot Bikini

Yellow Polka Dot Bikini

Yellow seedling - Bri-Sun

yellow seedling - Bri-Sun

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Here is the calendar from 2012:

American Icon

American Icon

Bubble Dance

Bubble Dance

Fragrant Bouquet

Fragrant Bouquet

Friends

Friends

Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast

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One Iota streaked

One Iota streaked

Peace

Peace

Group scene with Cordelia. The Cordelia is hard to find because the biggest piece along the right edge had lost its white edge.

scene Cordelia

Group scene with Majestic & Crystal Moon

scene Majestic

Group scene with mountain laurel & Mata Hari & Hanky Panky along with Kiwi Full Monty and Striptease in back. In fact you can find Bubble Dance (seen earlier in this set) along the left edge along with T-Dawg (yellow center) and CVG Can Can (white center). The white centered plant behind Kiwi Full Monty is White Bikini and the small plant in front of KWM is Cabaret.

scene ML Mata Hari

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Group scene with rectifolia types

scene rectifolia

Tassels

Tassels

[pauhaus]

Hi Ed, your pictures look great! I really like that Ooh La La as well as your gold seedling Bri-Sun. What's the background on that one, any idea or is it a weedling?

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Bri-Sun is sitting downhill from a my rectifolia group (and my Mouse group but it's not from there). So it could be from there BUT the flowers are wrong. I have been thinking it's from Designer Genes. The leaf color works but it doesn't have the petiole color - just a few dots when it starts out. I have Designer Genes on the other side of my patio and I'm thinking I picked up a seed on my shoe from there and dropped it. The flowers are similar and at the same time. I don't know what it was crossed with - the only thing in flower near Designer Genes during its flowering time was Madison Mine but there are others further away.

Some other differences from Designer Genes is the pie-crust leaf edge and the leafy scapes with smooth edged leaves.

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Here is a calendar form the 2011 season. I pulled together my own sports.

Aurora's Glow - sport of Gold Standard

Aurora's Glow

Take the Green Path - sport of Pathfinder

Take the Green Path

Dubious Behavior (early) - sport of Hanky Panky - this picture didn't make the calendar, I'm putting here to show the color change in the plant.

Dubious Behavior early

Dubious Behavior' (later) - sport of Hanky Panky - both pictures show a tiny fragment of the original Hanky Panky in the center of the plant and it goes through its color change also.

Dubious Behavior later

Trisha's Sunny Paradise - all yellow sport of Paradise Sunshine

Trisha's Sunny Paradise

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Continuing with the 2011 calendar of my sports.

Gold Standard reverse sport - this one didn't survive or at least the white center didn't continue. The plant continues to show some white once in a while. In the 2015 season 3 pieces showed white streaking.

Gold Standard sport

Fragrant Bouquet - not really a sport but always more variable than the true Fragrant Bouquet

Fragrant Bouquet

Orange Rose - basically an all yellow sport of Gypsy Rose but show a thin green edge sometimes

Orange Rose

Right Around Morning Sunrise - sport of Minuteman

Right Around Morning Sunrise

Standard's Bands - a reverse sport of Gold Standard

Standard's Bands

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Continuing the 2011 calendar

Slate Arrow Heads - sport of Hanky Panky - this was later renamed Lottie to keep the naming in the Striptease line (I know I didn't have to but I discovered the name later)
In the photo are two other sports - Take the Green Path (above) and Matthew's Sharp Edge

Slate Arrow Heads

Matthew's Sharp Edge - sport of Independence

Matthew's Sharp Edge

Stephanie in Moonlight - sport of Gold Standard

Stephanie in Moonlight

Minute After A Rainy Sunset - sport of Right Around Morning Sunrise - this was a late photo of this plant but it was the best I had from 2011. I could have "cheated" and put in a better photo from 2010 but I wanted only 2011 photos here.

Minute After A Rainy Sunset

Here is the better photo from 2010

Minute After A Rainy Sunset from 2010 season

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Some that didn't make the cut

Gift of Frost - sport of First Frost

Gift of Frost

Golden Garters - sport of Striptease
Early

Golden Garters early

Late

Golden Garters late

[Pieter]

Ed, are these all sports from your garden? Haven't seen them listed in the HL, they deserve to be there. I know Bill is in the middle of doing an update, why not send him pictures of all the sports you have that are 3 years and older and have them added to the HL for all to see.

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Yes, they are or were (lost some of them) all from my garden.

I have sent pictures of the best ones to the Hosta Library: Orange Rose, Lottie, Aurora's Glow and Dubious Behavior. I will look at sending others.

I was just looking over there and couldn't find Jezebel - I thought I had sent over - it's a Striptease sport I have shown here many times. I don't think it ever made it to a calendar.
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Here is an old one (2010) my son named Platinum Status. It's an unstable Gold Standard that I dug up and split when it really became interesting last season - hope it comes back this season.

Gold Standard Var J - August 14, 2015

Gold Standard Var J - August 14, 2015