Daily Hosta #1 - 'Popo' - add your pics
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Daily Hosta #1 - 'Popo' - add your pics
Today's first hosta, 'Popo'. This is a cute mini which I received in July from a friend.
Description: tiny, heart-shaped leaves are blue, forming a neat, compact mound.
Size: Mini (9"w x 5"h)
Origin: parentage unknown
Flowers: lavender, tubular
Source: from a friend
Registry - http://www.hostaregistrar.org/detail.ph ... riety=Popo
MyHostas - http://www.myhostas.be/db/hostas/Popo
Hosta Library - http://www.hostalibrary.org/p/popo.html
Too early to comment on growth rate. This picture from July 29.
Description: tiny, heart-shaped leaves are blue, forming a neat, compact mound.
Size: Mini (9"w x 5"h)
Origin: parentage unknown
Flowers: lavender, tubular
Source: from a friend
Registry - http://www.hostaregistrar.org/detail.ph ... riety=Popo
MyHostas - http://www.myhostas.be/db/hostas/Popo
Hosta Library - http://www.hostalibrary.org/p/popo.html
Too early to comment on growth rate. This picture from July 29.
Ann
Pictures of Ann's Hostas:
http://violaann.smugmug.com/Garden/Host ... 361_qL3gHS (SmugMug gallery now updated for 2016)
Pictures of Ann's Hostas:
http://violaann.smugmug.com/Garden/Host ... 361_qL3gHS (SmugMug gallery now updated for 2016)
Re: Daily Hosta #1 - 'Popo' - add your pics
How cute I havn't had much experience with the minis apart from one venture with Pandoras Box which was in my opinion the cutest ever. I kept it in its pot and in a small wall basket,alas it got smaller and smaller 'till ot gave up the ghost. The minis are vary expensive over here I'm a little afraid to try another. Is there a secret to frowing them I have heard poor quality soil helps and no fertilisation?? Any one help me with this?
Re: Daily Hosta #1 - 'Popo' - add your pics
Popo is a favorite of mine. It grows well without any trouble or special care. I've taken dozens of divisions
off mine over the years to send home with visitors who find it charming.
Mark, I grow a lot of minis. They're in the ground, in my good midwestern US corn-belt black loam soil.
The key, it seems to me, is to keep them from heaving. Several years back I started using pea gravel
as mulch in the mini bed, and they seem to love it. I have not lost a mini in either of the two mini beds
since I started using the pea gravel.
Linda P
off mine over the years to send home with visitors who find it charming.
Mark, I grow a lot of minis. They're in the ground, in my good midwestern US corn-belt black loam soil.
The key, it seems to me, is to keep them from heaving. Several years back I started using pea gravel
as mulch in the mini bed, and they seem to love it. I have not lost a mini in either of the two mini beds
since I started using the pea gravel.
Linda P
And time remembered is grief forgotten,
And frosts are slain and flowers begotten.....
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Latitude: 41° 51' 12.1572"
My Hosta List
And frosts are slain and flowers begotten.....
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Latitude: 41° 51' 12.1572"
My Hosta List
Re: Daily Hosta #1 - 'Popo' - add your pics
Here's what I think is Popo. No clue where I got it from, Walmart possibly from one of those bags. About 2-3 years old.
And it's not a Mini, mines almost as big as a mountain!
And it's not a Mini, mines almost as big as a mountain!
Last edited by ogrefcf on Sep 15, 2011 5:38 pm, edited 2 times in total.
Owen
Re: Daily Hosta #1 - 'Popo' - add your pics
LOL!
Ann
Pictures of Ann's Hostas:
http://violaann.smugmug.com/Garden/Host ... 361_qL3gHS (SmugMug gallery now updated for 2016)
Pictures of Ann's Hostas:
http://violaann.smugmug.com/Garden/Host ... 361_qL3gHS (SmugMug gallery now updated for 2016)
Re: Daily Hosta #1 - 'Popo' - add your pics
A bit more growth this year.
Ann
Pictures of Ann's Hostas:
http://violaann.smugmug.com/Garden/Host ... 361_qL3gHS (SmugMug gallery now updated for 2016)
Pictures of Ann's Hostas:
http://violaann.smugmug.com/Garden/Host ... 361_qL3gHS (SmugMug gallery now updated for 2016)
Re: Daily Hosta #1 - 'Popo' - add your pics
'Popo' grows steadily, if not quickly. I just gave it a pot all by itself rather than sharing with another plant and I'll sink that pot into larger planters or troughs. Photo July 8, 2014.
Ann
Pictures of Ann's Hostas:
http://violaann.smugmug.com/Garden/Host ... 361_qL3gHS (SmugMug gallery now updated for 2016)
Pictures of Ann's Hostas:
http://violaann.smugmug.com/Garden/Host ... 361_qL3gHS (SmugMug gallery now updated for 2016)
Re: Daily Hosta #1 - 'Popo' - add your pics
Here are a couple photos of mine. Last year it threw a streak, not so this year. It isn't a fast grower for me but not disappointing.
The kiss of the sun for pardon
The song of the birds for mirth
One is nearer God's heart in the garden
Than anywhere on earth
Doris Frances Gurney "Garden Thoughts"
The song of the birds for mirth
One is nearer God's heart in the garden
Than anywhere on earth
Doris Frances Gurney "Garden Thoughts"
Re: Daily Hosta #1 - 'Popo' - add your pics
2015 - June 21.
Ann
Pictures of Ann's Hostas:
http://violaann.smugmug.com/Garden/Host ... 361_qL3gHS (SmugMug gallery now updated for 2016)
Pictures of Ann's Hostas:
http://violaann.smugmug.com/Garden/Host ... 361_qL3gHS (SmugMug gallery now updated for 2016)
Re: Daily Hosta #1 - 'Popo' - add your pics
2016 update - quite a bit of growth. A good move to keep it in a pot and move the pot back and forth from garden to trough.
Ann
Pictures of Ann's Hostas:
http://violaann.smugmug.com/Garden/Host ... 361_qL3gHS (SmugMug gallery now updated for 2016)
Pictures of Ann's Hostas:
http://violaann.smugmug.com/Garden/Host ... 361_qL3gHS (SmugMug gallery now updated for 2016)
Re: Daily Hosta #1 - 'Popo' - add your pics
2017 update - July 19. I've kept this one in a pot and I sink the pot into a trough.
Ann
Pictures of Ann's Hostas:
http://violaann.smugmug.com/Garden/Host ... 361_qL3gHS (SmugMug gallery now updated for 2016)
Pictures of Ann's Hostas:
http://violaann.smugmug.com/Garden/Host ... 361_qL3gHS (SmugMug gallery now updated for 2016)