Calendar art

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Last season I bought a "nice" camera and took a bunch of test shots of some hosta that were around. My daughter "borrowed" my nice camera for an art class and was nice enough to take some of the photos and make a calendar out of them. The calendar was nice but the plants in the photos were not at their best when I was testing the camera. This season I went out with the intention of capturing some nice shots of nice plants. I thought I would share what the pages will look like.

Aurora Borealis

Dry Ice & Touch of Class with Lemon Frost on the left

Gold Standard reverse Variation C -1 & -2 with Starship on the left

Mighty Mouse

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The next set of four months.

Night Blooming Cereus

Olive Bailey Langdon with Frances Williams on left and Sum and Substance top right

Orange Rose (my name for a sport of Gypsy Rose)

Risky Business

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Last four months.

Group of Striptease sports and some others

Striptease (might be a sport like Snake Eyes)

Sweet Innocence

White Bikini with My Passion to the right and Juha top left

[Linda P]

Ed,
Your hosta pictures are very nice, but that night blooming cereus pic just blows me away.
Hope your 2011 calendar brings you through a very good year in the garden.

Linda P

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The last few years I have created calendars from photos taken during the season. I'm not doing it this season - just not in the mood. But I thought I would post here some of the photos that could have been in the calendar. I have posted many of these here during the season.

Bri-Sun & Waving Winds

Bri-Sun and Waving Winds

Bri-Sun is my own seedling (weedling).

Bri-Sun

Dax

Dax

Devil's Advocate

Devil's Advocate

Dress Blues & Don Stevens

Dress Blues & Don Stevens

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Page 2

Fragrant King

Fragrant King

Inspire Greatness

Inspire Greatness

Journey's End

Journey's End

Majestic

Majestic

This is a trough of Mourning Dove

Mourning Dove

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Page 3

Ooh La La

Ooh La La

Whoopee

Whoopee

A trough of Wolverine

Wolverine

Yellow Polka Dot Bikini

Yellow Polka Dot Bikini

[rufie98]

Sorry to hear that you were not in the mood to make a calendar for this year---your hostas are beautiful. I especially like your Mourning Dove (pretty color), Journey's End (love the coloring and the rippled edges), Inspire Greatness (has such a lovely contrast to it), and who couldn't love Yellow Polka Dot Bikini? Ooh la la is a pretty hosta. I saw it in a private garden and fell in love with it. Not sure if I will be able to find one here.

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Thanks for looking. The Mourning Dove, Journey's End and Ooh La La all came from Chris.

I did a calendar of just hosta flowers a couple of years ago. I'll try to find those photos for something to look at while winter does it's weird thing - finally saw a little snow yesterday. Probably most of the flowers were posted here before but this was just the best gathered together.

[Chris_W]

I can see how far you've come over the last few years - your hostas are really maturing. And that Ooh La Lah really caught my eye. Your soil is clearly more suited for that one than ours because mine have never had such a mature look to them. Thanks for sharing

[LucyGoose]

Love that Morning Dove!!

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That Ooh La La sits in a lot of hot mid-day sun.

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Here is the calendar from 2013 with just flowers.

Otter Point

Otter Point

Almost

Almost

Guacamole

Guacamole

Harpoon

Harpoon

longipes latifolia

longipes latifolia

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Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe

Mighty Mite

Mighty Mite

Mr Jack

Mr Jack

Raspberry Sorbet

Raspberry Sorbet

Red Dragon

Red Dragon

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Red Sox

Red Sox

Snake Charmer

Snake Charmer

Sugar Babe

Sugar Babe

[rufie98]

First of all, regarding Ooh la la, I don't have a lot of sun, but I would buy it anyways! The one I saw was not very big but the intense coloring blew me away. A very pretty hosta. I hope you post a picture of it next year.

Thank you for showing us your calendar flowers. What a great idea! It is amazing that a purple flower can vary so much. In my earlier "hosta" years, I just didn't understand why I would have to post a flower picture of a hosta that I wanted to have identified. Wasn't a purple flower, just another purple flower! Now I know better.

I hope you don't mind, but I took some of the more distinct purple flowers and put it into a collage photo. Having them side by side allows you to compare them. (I just recently became aware of a photo editing program that I could do this with.) I hope you like it.

[rufie98]

And just for fun, another one. Aren't your hosta flowers beautiful?

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The flowers are incredibly variable. I have been noting differences in the striping patterns, i.e. how many stripes are there, are they markedly different on the sepal and the petal, do the stripes descend into the throat of the flower, is the "main" center stripe the same length as the two major stripes, is the center stripe the darkest, it does on and on. I have even noticed a curl at the end of a stripe - weird. And then there are spots and speckles on the petal. And then there are yellow and red flowers.

Here are some flower pictures that didn't make the "cut" for the 2013 calendar. These have nothing to do with what I was mentioning above - that for another topic.

#102 seedlings from Art Wrede's plants

seedlings from Art Wrede's plants

Aomori Gold Star

Aomori Gold Star

Candy Dish

Candy Dish

gracillima

gracillima

Hosoba Iwa seedlings from Art Wrede's plants

Hosoba Iwa seedlings fro Art Wrede's plants

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Iron Gate Supreme

Iron Gate Supreme

John Wargo

John Wargo

longissima

longissima

Ogon Tachi

Ogon Tachi

Saishu Jima

Saishu Jima

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Savannah

Savannah

Smokey seedling

Smokey seedling

Violetta

Violetta