fire island dulls up pretty fast.. its only claim to fame.. its early bright color... later.. its just another yellowish-green hosta with a white edge ... BTW ... a yellow hosta the stays yellow .. with a white edge is nearly terminal.. no chlorophyll ... it either has to green.. or it dies ... bet you cant name 3 hosta that are yellow and white.. and stay a vivid yellow ... proceed to make a liar of me.. lol ken

Just wondering... this forum doesn't list numbers of hits on a thread so I don't know if people care abut this kind of piece... I know it is long - it is meant to be more creativie writing and expanding thinking rather than just a picture of my favorite hostas... I am posting these "Top Shelf" meandering stories on another forum as well... I'll post them here if people are interested... otherwise, I'll drop it here...

I'm going to keep King Tut and wait. It's been such a funny growing season here I wouldn't be surprised if it grew more next year. I have two small 'Gold Beacon' lamium plants that have been sitting for two months without growing. They look perfectly happy and healthy but haven't grown. The same with a dozen coleus but they recently took off.

Ive managed to over winter this so far in the house. It looks sort of sad, but is still putting out growth. All year long, since ive bought it, its had a bunch of seed heads on the "fans". Are the seeds from this cultiver viable? Whens the best time to grab the seeds?