Daily Hosta #2 - 'Cutting Edge' - Add your pics

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Daily Hosta #2 - 'Cutting Edge' - Add your pics

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Name: H. 'Cutting Edge'

Description: Rippled blue-green leaves with ruffled leaf margins arched and folded to reveal their white backs.
Size: Medium (27"w x 22"h) (well, that's the registered size. Mine is now larger.)
Origin: H. 'Salute' x H. pycnophylla
Flowers: Lavender in late summer
Added to garden: Spring 2008

Registry - http://www.hostaregistrar.org/detail.ph ... ing%20Edge

MyHostas - http://myhostas.be/db/hostas/Cutting+Edge

Hosta Library - http://www.hostalibrary.org/c/cuttingedge.html

In 2011 this one looked like someone had fed it steroids as it grew a lot from the previous year.
'Cutting Edge'  - Aug. 9 - the flower scapes on this one are never held upright but rather off at angles
'Cutting Edge' - Aug. 9 - the flower scapes on this one are never held upright but rather off at angles
'Cutting Edge' bloom - Aug. 9
'Cutting Edge' bloom - Aug. 9
'Cutting Edge'  single flower - Aug. 23
'Cutting Edge' single flower - Aug. 23
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This one is new to me this year, and is already one of my favorites.
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Still amazes me how large this one is. Obviously must have been registered before it reached its full growth.
Wendy, I'd love to see a pic of yours this year.

Mine won me a "Best in Show" for hosta leaves at the Ottawa Horticultural Society June show.
'Cutting Edge', July 21, 2012
'Cutting Edge', July 21, 2012
leaf - June 19, 2012
leaf - June 19, 2012
leaf - June 19, 2012 - taken at the same time but from a different angle and the light seems completely different
leaf - June 19, 2012 - taken at the same time but from a different angle and the light seems completely different
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I was surprised at the size of the leaves on the mature plant. I have some nice seedlings from it, though they are
quite slow. Mine is getting really large as well, though I don't have a picture of it. This was the year I was going
to do pictures of all my hostas, but the heat and drought have made that a project to put off til next year.
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And frosts are slain and flowers begotten.....
Algernon Charles Swinburne

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2014 picture. 'Cutting Edge' is still growing well, but doesn't seem to make the impact in the garden this year.
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2015 - Aug. 13. Looking good!
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2016 update -
August 5
August 5
August 5 - buds are put out on nearly horizontal scapes.
August 5 - buds are put out on nearly horizontal scapes.
August 22
August 22
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Aug. 15, 2017.
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