Vase-shaped hostas - help me make a list, please

[jgh]

I didn't think there was any category Don Rawson hasn't made a list of, but I just agreed to do an article for the AHS Journal on vase-shaped hostas - and I don't see that Don has a list (YET!) I suspect he will after we get some input here! I guess vase-shaped will probably give way to the more accurate term "Upright" as they all tend to spill back downward at some point - but we are talking about hostas that give that upright impression - tall legs. I immediately think of larger hostas, but I'll bet we'll end up with some medium and smaller plants that still have the upright character...

Help me out if you can!

Starting it off, the usual suspects...

Krossa Regal
Regal Splendor
Gold Regal
Alex Summers
Rascal

[jgh]

and (duh) Sagae

I wonder if Sagae's sports qualify... My Libertys give more mounded impressions that the parent. Guess that could partially be a result of the depth I planted them... and I'm not growing any of the others... I'll have to watch the Liberty's to see if it should be included. Looking forward to your input.

and how about nigrescens / Tenyru and Elatior - I think they qualify for the list...

[gesila9]

Tom Schmid
Sun Power

[NancyL]

Komodo Dragons are vase shaped also - more visible in the spring and younger specimens.

[Linda P]

Queen of the Seas
Lakeside Surfrider
Tidewater
Ultramarine
Unchained Meldoy
Jade Cascade
Cascades

The last 3 start out upright or vase shaped but then the long leaves bend towards the ground.

[loisf]

My all-time favorite - montana Aureomarginata.

[Don Rawson]

Hmmmm...I don't have a list of all the vase-shaped hostas, just the LARGE vase-shaped ones. The list is posted at http://www.pwk.resteddoginn.ca/lists/ho ... t_lruh.php. Don

[Don Rawson]

Here are some recent additions:

‘Chartreuse Wedge’
‘Great Plains’
‘Green Dragonet’
‘Green Sheen’
‘Green Wedge’
‘Gulliver’
‘Poison Dart Frog’
‘Roderick’
‘Russ O’Harra’
‘Vim and Vigor’

[jgh]

Thanks all... and Don, special thanks! I looked under 'upright' and 'vase-shaped'... didn't look under 'Large'

I can see we are going to have a problem defining this... lots of them look upright, then the long leaves cascade back down... I think we are going to look for those that give a sense of upright / vase-shaped over the season... perhaps based on the proportions between the diameter and height... like a diameter close to or roughly equal to or less than the height... maybe have to just settle for "the impression of upright growth." Not sure if there will be enough left if we limit it to those with "bare legs" for the whole season...

I see Sagae and the sports on Don's list... not Sum and Substance, but a S&S sport, Vim and Vigor added... so I'll have to consider all of that family...

[thy]

Old link but http://www.perennialnursery.com/forums/ ... as#p365733Proud Sentry.. I want to see it grow big in the garden

or why not try the great database from ´Marco Fransen at hostaparadise, go for the Search Engine... then free formated seach... and upright .. this database is a jar of gold

[Bigdaddy1]

How about gentle giant. I want this one!

Chris.

[Don Rawson]

IMO, Sum and Substance and most of its sports are semi-upright. Vim and Vigor, however, is an exception. I've seen a mature Vim and Vigor, as well as a margined sport of Vim and Vigor(labelled Experimental #38), in the trial gardens at Walters and they are more compact and upright than Sum and Substance.

[flowerchild59]

Gay Search that I received from Viktoria is an awesome upright hosta. With a name like that it had to go into my "naughty" themed bed.

[kaylyred]

Gay Search that I received from Viktoria is an awesome upright hosta. With a name like that it had to go into my "naughty" themed bed.

Now I want to know what else is in there! Hanky Panky? Cheatin' Heart?

[flowerchild59]

There are so many good naughty names that I had to get a second bed just to accomodate them. I rc'd double d cup, and seducer os from stuart asch a few years ago and I just moved it into that bed.
In there also is hanky panky, slick willy, kiwi full monty, party favor (one of my freebies from chris many years ago and is a fabulous pie crusted plant), laura and darrell (who knows what they are up to in there), gypsy rose, feather boa, honeymoon, minute man, little stiffy, touch of class, love spat, illicit affair, fantasy island, vim and vigor, and outhouse delight!!!
Ok, I know outhouse delight is a stretch, but where else could it go!!!!!

[Don Rawson]

Here's a list of naughty names in case you want to have a romance, marriage, and sex garden: http://www.pwk.resteddoginn.ca/themes/h ... me_rom.php

[Kas]

Torchlight is upright for me and so is Lakside Cha Cha.

[Scuba Dude]

H. Praying Hands
H. Ringtail


Kent

[jgh]

Thanks for all the good input... and Kent, I can't believe I hadn't thought of Praying Hands. I have that placed mentally in my "oddballs" list - but, of course, it is perhaps the most obvious not-large vase-shaped/upright hosta... I'll have to be sure to get pics for the article...

and Ringtail... I've mostly seen it in pots... does the mature clump in the garden have "bare legs" or do the leaves cascade down to the ground to give it a tall, but full mound look?

[Scuba Dude]

Jim,

Bare legs it has. The mature plant holds it's leaves pretty horizontal with just the curly tips cascading down a bit.

Kent