Daily Hosta #2 - 'Blue Mouse Ears family' - Add your pics
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Daily Hosta #2 - 'Blue Mouse Ears family' - Add your pics
'Blue Mouse Ears' has a large and extended family of first and second generation sports. The list at http://myhostas.be/sports/index.htm# now numbers 18 and there may be more.
Blue Mouse Ears (bb)
-> Blue Mouse Ears Supreme (?) -> Mighty Moe (wb)
-> Cat and Mouse (yb)
-> Dancing Mouse (bb)
-> Green Mouse Ears (gg)
-> Mighty Mouse (yc)
-> Mouse Tracks (os)
-> Mouse Trap (wb)
-> One Iota (gc) -> One Iota Supreme (os) -> Desert Mouse (cb)
-> Lucky Mouse (bc)
-> Pure Heart (yg)
-> Royal Mouse Ears (os) -> Frosted Mouse Ears (gw)
-> Holy Mouse Ears (wb)
-> Snow Mouse (?) -> Funny Mouse (bw)
In my garden, there are: 'Cat and Mouse' (though it keeps sporting to blue), 'Mighty Mouse' (which to me looks nearly identical to 'Frosted Mouse Ears'), another 'Mighty Mouse' which has confused colouring - I've dubbed it 'Mighty Confused Mouse', 'Mouse Trap' (which looks like 'Snow Mouse'), 'Royal Mouse Ears', 'Frosted Mouse Ears', 'Holy Mouse Ears' and 'Snow Mouse'. I let them live in a planter (along with 'Country Mouse' from a different family) under the eyes of a watchful cat.
Blue Mouse Ears (bb)
-> Blue Mouse Ears Supreme (?) -> Mighty Moe (wb)
-> Cat and Mouse (yb)
-> Dancing Mouse (bb)
-> Green Mouse Ears (gg)
-> Mighty Mouse (yc)
-> Mouse Tracks (os)
-> Mouse Trap (wb)
-> One Iota (gc) -> One Iota Supreme (os) -> Desert Mouse (cb)
-> Lucky Mouse (bc)
-> Pure Heart (yg)
-> Royal Mouse Ears (os) -> Frosted Mouse Ears (gw)
-> Holy Mouse Ears (wb)
-> Snow Mouse (?) -> Funny Mouse (bw)
In my garden, there are: 'Cat and Mouse' (though it keeps sporting to blue), 'Mighty Mouse' (which to me looks nearly identical to 'Frosted Mouse Ears'), another 'Mighty Mouse' which has confused colouring - I've dubbed it 'Mighty Confused Mouse', 'Mouse Trap' (which looks like 'Snow Mouse'), 'Royal Mouse Ears', 'Frosted Mouse Ears', 'Holy Mouse Ears' and 'Snow Mouse'. I let them live in a planter (along with 'Country Mouse' from a different family) under the eyes of a watchful cat.
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 #2 - 'Blue Mouse Ears family' - Add your pic
Here are the remaining "mice". Except for BME, all my "mice" have been acquired in the last 3 years.
Last edited by ViolaAnn on Nov 14, 2011 9:33 am, edited 1 time in total.
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 #2 - 'Blue Mouse Ears family' - Add your pic
All new this year:
Mighty Mouse in bloom:
Holy Mouse Ears:
Frosted Mouse Ears:
Dancing Mouse:
Mighty Mouse in bloom:
Holy Mouse Ears:
Frosted Mouse Ears:
Dancing Mouse:
Re: Daily Hosta #2 - 'Blue Mouse Ears family' - Add your pic
Does anyone else have pics of this family?
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 #2 - 'Blue Mouse Ears family' - Add your pic
Going through my "mouse" pictures I don't have many individual shots. The Mighty Mouse were purchased late in the season.
Ed McHugh, Sicklerville NJ
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
Re: Daily Hosta #2 - 'Blue Mouse Ears family' - Add your pic
Some group shots:
Ed McHugh, Sicklerville NJ
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
Re: Daily Hosta #2 - 'Blue Mouse Ears family' - Add your pic
Found some more earlier season shots.
Ed McHugh, Sicklerville NJ
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
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Re: Daily Hosta #2 - 'Blue Mouse Ears family' - Add your pic
Here's my list of 'Blue Mouse Ears' sports: http://www.pwk.resteddoginn.ca/lists/hosta_list_me.php
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When I was putting my group shots up I mistakenly thought the One Iota was Mighty Mouse. Then when I was labeling them I saw I had One Iota Supreme but could find One Iota in the photo. I then went back to my garden map and saw the problem - One Iota has to be next to One Iota Supreme so what I had label as Mighty Mouse was One Iota. So, to me, One Iota is hard to tell apart from Mighty Mouse. And Frosted Mouse Ears is similar also.
Ed McHugh, Sicklerville NJ
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
Re: Daily Hosta #2 - 'Blue Mouse Ears family' - Add your pic
Some of my Mouses family
Hosta Dancing Mouse
http://photo.qip.ru/users/giboshi/20063 ... nImageLink
Blue Mouse Ears
http://photo.qip.ru/users/giboshi/11592 ... nImageLink
One Iota Supreme
http://photo.qip.ru/users/giboshi/11592 ... nImageLink
Royal Mouse Ears.
http://photo.qip.ru/users/giboshi/11592 ... nImageLink
Cypripedium Gisella & Hosta Dancing Mouse
http://photo.qip.ru/users/giboshi/11590 ... nImageLink
Hosta Dancing Mouse
http://photo.qip.ru/users/giboshi/20063 ... nImageLink
Blue Mouse Ears
http://photo.qip.ru/users/giboshi/11592 ... nImageLink
One Iota Supreme
http://photo.qip.ru/users/giboshi/11592 ... nImageLink
Royal Mouse Ears.
http://photo.qip.ru/users/giboshi/11592 ... nImageLink
Cypripedium Gisella & Hosta Dancing Mouse
http://photo.qip.ru/users/giboshi/11590 ... nImageLink
Re: Daily Hosta #2 - 'Blue Mouse Ears family' - Add your pic
I have become totally disenchanted with this family and don't plan to acquire any more. There are so many subtle variations and so many of them really all look alike and then there is the instability of the lot. I'll keep growing the ones I have, but no more. I DID move the large planter that holds my collection into better light this year and I was rewarded with bloom on several of them.
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 #2 - 'Blue Mouse Ears family' - Add your pic
And a few more -
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 #2 - 'Blue Mouse Ears family' - Add your pic
Here are mine. I finally got a good shot of Green Mouse Ears. I posted a bunch of "messy" ones on the Royal Mouse Ears topic.
http://www.perennialnursery.com/forums/ ... =1&t=56449
http://www.perennialnursery.com/forums/ ... =1&t=56449
Ed McHugh, Sicklerville NJ
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
Re: Daily Hosta #2 - 'Blue Mouse Ears family' - Add your pic
Another batch:
Ed McHugh, Sicklerville NJ
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
Re: Daily Hosta #2 - 'Blue Mouse Ears family' - Add your pic
Another batch - some of these are beaten up this time of year:
Ed McHugh, Sicklerville NJ
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
Re: Daily Hosta #2 - 'Blue Mouse Ears family' - Add your pic
Last batch:
Ed McHugh, Sicklerville NJ
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
Re: Daily Hosta #2 - 'Blue Mouse Ears family' - Add your pic
Winter 2012-13, I put my entire planter into my enclosed (with windows) but unheated porch. I've successfully overwintered a few hostas there before. But I lost many of my mice. In spite of my vow to not buy more, I bought 'Church Mouse' in 2013 and 'Pure Heart' in 2014.
'Blue Mouse Ears' survived, or some of it did. It was severely damaged and much smaller in 2013. Looking better in 2014 and bloomed well. Here's 'Church Mouse'. New 2013. It hasn't grown much at all, but is still looking healthy. 'Frosted Mouse Ears' survived the freezing and looks OK but didn't bloom. One of my 'Mighty Mouse' divisions survived. The other did not. But this one looks OK.
'Blue Mouse Ears' survived, or some of it did. It was severely damaged and much smaller in 2013. Looking better in 2014 and bloomed well. Here's 'Church Mouse'. New 2013. It hasn't grown much at all, but is still looking healthy. 'Frosted Mouse Ears' survived the freezing and looks OK but didn't bloom. One of my 'Mighty Mouse' divisions survived. The other did not. But this one looks OK.
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 #2 - 'Blue Mouse Ears family' - Add your pic
'Pure Heart' was new this year - 2014 and so far seems to be one of the most vigorous "mice" I've had.
'Royal Mouse Ears' is a few years old. It's barely grown at all, but at least it's still streaked.
And 'Snow Mouse' survived that brutal winter, but last year it was nearly all blue. This year it is totally blue. But smaller leaves than BME.
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 #2 - 'Blue Mouse Ears family' - Add your pic
There are so many in this family now that I think we should likely make separate threads for the individual family members. A few already have their own threads.
Blue Mouse Ears 07 - viewtopic.php?f=1&t=47021
Blue Mouse Ears 11 - viewtopic.php?f=1&t=55301
Church Mouse 17 - viewtopic.php?f=1&t=60933
Frosted Mouse Ears 17 - viewtopic.php?f=1&t=60935
Mighty Mouse 17 - viewtopic.php?f=1&t=60937
Pure Heart 17 - viewtopic.php?f=1&t=60938
Royal Mouse Ears 17 - viewtopic.php?f=1&t=60939
Sun Mouse 17 - viewtopic.php?f=1&t=60941
Please add others that you have.
Blue Mouse Ears 07 - viewtopic.php?f=1&t=47021
Blue Mouse Ears 11 - viewtopic.php?f=1&t=55301
Church Mouse 17 - viewtopic.php?f=1&t=60933
Frosted Mouse Ears 17 - viewtopic.php?f=1&t=60935
Mighty Mouse 17 - viewtopic.php?f=1&t=60937
Pure Heart 17 - viewtopic.php?f=1&t=60938
Royal Mouse Ears 17 - viewtopic.php?f=1&t=60939
Sun Mouse 17 - viewtopic.php?f=1&t=60941
Please add others that you have.
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)