Daily Hosta - 'Liberty' - Add your pics

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Daily Hosta - 'Liberty' - Add your pics

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Name: H. 'Liberty'

Description: Blue-green leaves have wide, dramatically streaked, yellow margins which fade to creamy-white later in the season. Likely tetraploid. The are of heavy substance, providing great slug resistance.
Size: Large (39"w x 39"h)
Origin: Sport of H. 'Sagae'
Flowers: pale lavender, tubular on 40" scapes
Added to garden: Spring 2009
Notes: This hosta is patented.
This is a rare example of a LARGE hosta in my garden.

Registry - http://www.hostaregistrar.org/detail.ph ... ty=Liberty
MyHostas - http://myhostas.be/db/hostas/Liberty
Hosta Library - http://www.hostalibrary.org/l/libertya.html

Easily the most dramatic hosta I have and when I cleaned out an overgrown 'clausa var. clausa' I made a great space to show it off. I grew it in a pot for the first year while still getting rid of clausa rhizomes (invasive), but it's been planted for 2 years now.
'Liberty' August 3
'Liberty' August 3
'Liberty' flower July 24
'Liberty' flower July 24
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Excited to see everyone's pictures. I'll get on of mine later, but it's just a little one.
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Mine are both new this year. They looked almost identical when I bought them. However, one gets more sun than the other.

Here's the one that only gets morning sun:
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Here's the one that gets sun all day:
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Here is my oldest Liberty. It is about 8 years old, but nobody really noticed it until two summers ago as the margins remained thin for the first 5 years and took until the 6th year from TC to really stand out. It is in a spot with no direct sunlight, just high canopy walnut trees so it gets plenty of indirect lighting. This one sells us out of Liberty every summer :)
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Changes thru the season May 29 and Aug 4
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WOW are they lovely :D :D :D

Gesila... first year plant :o They are bigger than ny new one wch is 3 years old and even bigger than my old one, wich is ??? 6 or 7 years old, but have been a dud from start. After 3 year it was stomped.. still one rather small eye at that time and it came back with 2 rather small eyes :roll: Its sibling in my friends garden is beautiful and we got them the same day from the same batch :(

I W A N T mine to be as lovely as all of yours :D

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Embarrassed to show mine now lol. Just a single eye from Chris. Planted this year and photo taken today.
Seems to have a weird calico growth! :eek:

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Don't worry Owen, your Liberty will just keep getting better. Like I mentioned, nobody took notice of mine for years either, but it is worth the wait :)
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A friend picked mine up for me as the closest nursery to me had sold out. (this was 2009). She selected a larger plant as the difference in price wasn't very much and I'm very glad she did. It had several good eyes when it was new.
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Ogrefcf, you stole my kitty!

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Mine was planted in 2004, and took a few years to get that commanding presence. I can't stop
looking at it in the spring when the edges are so bright.
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viktoria wrote:Ogrefcf, you stole my kitty!

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You can come get her! Course my wife might kill me :lol: . She's my gardening buddy, always follows me when I go out. And Linda as always beautiful Hosta!
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I bought a Liberty form a local garden centre had a good Idea it wasnt at all looks more like a wrongly labeled Queen Josephine BUT looking at one of the pictures posted on here (second pic post) there is one that looks the same could it be a Liberty I have? Really does look like Queen J tho. :-?
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'Liberty' continues to be a showpiece in the garden. And as I write on September 10, it is about to bloom for the 2nd time this year.
'Liberty', July 3, 2012
'Liberty', July 3, 2012
'Liberty' bloom, July 3, 2012
'Liberty' bloom, July 3, 2012
leaf, June 19, 2012
leaf, June 19, 2012
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Sorry, folks. This isn't Liberty, but Sagae. I was confused when I posted it here.

My 3 'Liberty's are still too small to wow anyone :-( Maybe next year.... <crossing fingers>
Definitely one of my favorites! This is my largest one, taken spring 2011. It is twice this size this year :-) Does anyone else also have 'Ivory Coast'? Is it as showy?
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I just put up a page on Ivory Coast.

http://www.perennialnursery.com/forums/ ... =1&t=56519
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'Liberty', ordered from Hallson's last year, dug up and replanted this year because of tree root competition:
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Looking forward to this Liberty of mine becoming a bit more well proportioned like some of yours above. I've had it since 2009. Am I expecting too much too soon?
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Irene - I got mine in 2009 too, but it was a LARGE division that Sandy picked out for me at White House; so it had a jump start. I bet yours will be looking mature next year.
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Irene - if you are still around, I'd love to see a pic of your 'Liberty' now.

Mine continues to be a drama queen in the garden. It absolutely demands attention. This picture July 16, 2014.
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