Daily Hosta #2 - 'Captain Kirk' - Add your pics

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Daily Hosta #2 - 'Captain Kirk' - Add your pics

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Name: H. 'Captain Kirk'

Description: Leaves are bright yellow with a wide medium to deep green margin. As it matures it develops thick leaves with some corrugation.
Size: Medium-Large (36"w x 20"h)
Origin: sport of H. 'Gold Standard'
Flowers: pale lavender
Added to garden: Spring 2009

Registry - http://www.hostaregistrar.org/detail.ph ... ain%20Kirk

MyHostas - http://myhostas.be/db/hostas/Captain+Kirk

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

This one has grown well from a plant that had only 1 eye two years ago.
'Captain Kirk' - July 18
'Captain Kirk' - July 18
'Captain Kirk' bloom - July 29
'Captain Kirk' bloom - July 29
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Here is my biggest one.
Captain Kirk  --  7/11/2011
Captain Kirk -- 7/11/2011
Captain Kirk  --  7/6/2011
Captain Kirk -- 7/6/2011
Captain Kirk  --  7/9/2011
Captain Kirk -- 7/9/2011
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'Captain Kirk' - July 3, 2012
'Captain Kirk' - July 3, 2012
A pic from 2012. This one grew quite a pic over the past year.
leaf - June 19, 2012
leaf - June 19, 2012
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All those beautiful big Captain Kirks-heres my baby one, hope mine become as nice as all of yours!

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Third year from Hallsons. Planted in the fall of 2010. Moved in 2011. This one is grown in full sun.

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What a beauty-you can really see the Gold Standard coming out in that picture.
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'Captain Kirk', third year and third move in the garden:
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This one is getting large. I may have to move some of the plants around it.
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This was pretty small when I got it. Very large and full now at 8 years old.

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2015 - July 3. It's still crowded but I will have to move 'Gold Drop which is in front of it.
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2016 update - July 23
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2017 - it's much the same. July 27.
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