Daily Hosta #1 - 'Island Charm' - Add your pics

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Daily Hosta #1 - 'Island Charm' - Add your pics

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Name: H. 'Island Charm'

Description: Dwarf clump of yellow to white centred leaves with green margin. Pink petioles, scapes and pinkish-lavender flowers -- sometimes even pink seed pods
Size: Tiny (12"w x 9"h)
Origin: Hybrid of H. 'Flamboyant'
Flowers: Pink scapes and pinkish-lavender tubular flowers, fertile pink seed pods.
Added to garden: spring 2005
Notes: A slow grower in its first season, it did done well in the second but hasn't grown significantly since.

Registry - http://www.hostaregistrar.org/detail.ph ... nd%20Charm
MyHostas - http://myhostas.be/db/hostas/Island+Charm
Hosta Library - http://www.hostalibrary.org/i/ischarm.html

This one is a puzzle. I've seen others and mine seems definitely a runt compared to them.
'Island Charm' - July 15
'Island Charm' - July 15
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Island Charm did well in its first year in my garden. It gets afternoon sun.

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This one has remained a consistent 12" from year to year. I keep thinking I'll move it somewhere with hostas closer to it's size, but it seems to be holding it's own in a bed surrounded by medium to large hostas.

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This one has just about left my garden. Very little left of it.
'Island Charm', July 21, 2012
'Island Charm', July 21, 2012
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My runt finally bit the dust in 2012 after it got dug up by squirrels. A friend gave me a division of a better one in 2013 and while it's still in a pot, it's doing much better than my first one ever did.
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2015 - Aug. 13. The new division is still in a pot but doing well.
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2016 - still in a pot, in a trough.
July 23, 2016
July 23, 2016
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2017 - July 27 and getting smaller. I expect this one will bit the dust too at some point and I won't bother replacing it.
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