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.
Daily Hosta #1 - 'Dixie Chickadee' - Add your pics
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Daily Hosta #1 - 'Dixie Chickadee' - Add your pics
Last edited by ViolaAnn on Nov 11, 2012 3:48 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Ann
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- paul_in_mn
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Re: Daily Hosta #1 - 'Dixie Chickadee' - Add your pics
2nd year
Paul
Gardening is a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow.
Gardening is a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow.
Re: Daily Hosta #1 - 'Dixie Chickadee' - Add your pics
I'm still waiting for mine to look like Paul's. Well next year is third year.
Ann
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Re: Daily Hosta #1 - 'Dixie Chickadee' - Add your pics
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.
Re: Daily Hosta #1 - 'Dixie Chickadee' - Add your pics
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.
Re: Daily Hosta #1 - 'Dixie Chickadee' - Add your pics
Hi Carol, welcome to the forum.
Here is my Dixie Chickadee.
Here is my Dixie Chickadee.
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 #1 - 'Dixie Chickadee' - Add your pics
RIP 'Dixie Chickadee'. This is all that came back in 2014 and it didn't last long before it was gone.
Ann
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