Daily Hosta #1 - 'Dixie Chickadee' - Add your pics

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Daily Hosta #1 - 'Dixie Chickadee' - Add your pics

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Name: H. 'Dixie Chickadee'

Description: Yellow lance-shaped leaves with green flecks and a dark green margin. Very shiny and moderately twisted.
Size: very small (8" w x 4" h)
Origin: a cultivar by T. Avent, registered 2007. Sport of H. 'Dixie Chick'
Flowers: medium lavender, tubular
Added to garden: July 2011

Registry link: http://www.hostaregistrar.org/detail.ph ... 0Chickadee
MyHostas Database link: http://myhostas.be/db/hostas/Dixie+Chickadee
Hosta Library - http://www.hostalibrary.org/d/chickadee1.html

This one was new to me last July. So far, I like it.
'Dixie Chickadee'  - Aug. 3
'Dixie Chickadee' - Aug. 3
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2nd year
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'Dixie Chickadee', July 3, 2012
'Dixie Chickadee', July 3, 2012
I'm still waiting for mine to look like Paul's. Well next year is third year.
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Mine is 3 years or 4. Cant remember when I got it from my mom. Just got and ID for it this year. It get sun most of the afternoon.
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I'm new here on Hallson Gardens forum, but a friend of Linda P's. Here is my 'Dixie Chickadee' when it came last June. I thought it was the cutest thing I'd seen. It's in a 8 oz glass of water.
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Hi Carol, welcome to the forum.

Here is my Dixie Chickadee.
Dixie Chickadee - June 22, 2012
Dixie Chickadee - June 22, 2012
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'Dixie Chickadee', planted in 2010:
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RIP 'Dixie Chickadee'. This is all that came back in 2014 and it didn't last long before it was gone.
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