Pic of the Day--Blue Dimples
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Pic of the Day--Blue Dimples
Hi All--Today's variety is a study in how very slowly some hostas mature. I have had Blue Dimples since 1994 but it wasn't until 2002 that some subtle changes in color and leaf shape made it one of my favorites. It wasn't until the plant was twelve years old before it finally reached Zilis' size listing of 44x19. It has become what is probably the "bluest" hosta in our garden. It grows in a spot that gets about an hour of direct sun in the middle of the summer and indirect light in spring and fall. Slugs have seldom bothered this plant.
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Hank
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Such great blue!
hank,
What an impressive showing! Lovely!
Antje is Muddy fingernails
What an impressive showing! Lovely!
Antje is Muddy fingernails
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Oh, I like that! Very pretty coloring and I like the leaf shape! Captures your eye!
Hey I just realized that your the photography from the Hosta Library picture of this! Very
Hey I just realized that your the photography from the Hosta Library picture of this! Very
Jane (from the middle of the Mitten state)
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Well, Hank, I'm halfway there with mine. It's been in my garden since 2001. I will have to go out and study it to see if it's getting anywhere. For a while I couldn't tell the difference between Blue Dimple, Blue Arrow, or Blue Wedgwood, all three of which are very nice plants. Now I'm really seeing differences in the latter two, but haven't compared BD with them lately.
That pic would be enough to make anyone who loves blue run right out and add this hosta! It's lovely.
Linda P
That pic would be enough to make anyone who loves blue run right out and add this hosta! It's lovely.
Linda P
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And frosts are slain and flowers begotten.....
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Latitude: 41° 51' 12.1572"
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I added this plant last year and just tucked it away in a nice shady spot and will check it again in ten years Hank.
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Hi All--Thanks for all the nice comments.
Joan--I'm glad you posted your pic. It shows how the plant will change over the years. Yours is a nice looking plant but it looks like a different variety compared to when it finally hits maturity.
Joan--I'm glad you posted your pic. It shows how the plant will change over the years. Yours is a nice looking plant but it looks like a different variety compared to when it finally hits maturity.
Hank
Better Gnomes & Gardens
zone 4B-5A
Latitude: 43° 48' 51" N
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Latitude: 43° 48' 51" N