Thanks floota, I love your real MM - I have always dis-liked this one. It came from the grower mis-tagged. Image my surprise (horror) when this color showed up in my peachy-orangy bed. Thanks for the comments tarheelbelle. Vickie - you are getting closer. Below is another picture taken outside. I think that this is larger than Huckleberry Candy. I have 26", 5.5" and probably mid-season. Vickie - I could be close to you, in western KY. email me!

I'm back at this again. So these do seem to be more Montana (zero pods on scapes) but then I have another one I happened upon (it was an unknown) that looks almost the same but deeper veins and loaded w/ pods. Could that be Ginba???

Your post made me smile because I was going nuts over my Halcyons earlier this Spring. Mine were all divisions of one and the same plant that I bought 7 years ago, and yet all of a sudden this Spring some of them looked way different than in previous years so I wondered if they had sported or reverted. Wouldn't necessarily be the case with yours since you bought them in separate pots, and I can't confirm or deny that yours are all Halcyon, but just wanted to say that even divisions of the same plant can apparently look different from each other, and even different from themselves in different years. If you're going for a symmetrical look like it sounds like you may have by bordering/alternating, hostas are clearly not the plants if you even have a little bit of OCD. Over the years, my Halcyons anywhere near our Dogwood tree have always stayed small (both in leaf size and in mound size...height and all), the ones in more sun are of course less blue, and I suspect that supplemental watering last year and lots of fertilizing early this year resulted in the round, large leaves that some of them had for the first time this Spring. The difference in mine was clear in person but not so much in pics. All the divisions that retained the smaller leaves kept the longer, pointy leaf shape similar to June, but the couple of divisions that seemed to have exploded in leaf size definitely adapted a rounder leaf shape such as yours. Long story short, I don't know if some of yours might be something else, but it is possible that they are all Halcyons that look different due to any combination of things that might be affecting them in their individual spots. I'm attaching early Spring pics of mine (my OCD convinced me to pull most of the divisions, only keeping one, but in hindsight I'd recommend chilling instead). All four of the pots (pictured here) containing the blue hostas are, again, divisions of one Halcyon I bought 7 years ago. They did all become more blue as this Spring went on, although I'm still not convinced that all of them became quite as blue as they used to. So again, as you can see, divisions of the same plant can have different leaf size, leaf shape, leaf color, and possibly even leaf substance (the extra large leaves appeared a bit thinner to me, but I might be imagining things there). Others commented to say that a blue hosta wouldn't revert to another blue, but I don't know if it's possible for it to sport to something that is similar but not the same. As of right now I'm thinking that it is simply the additional water and fertilizer that resulted in the monster growth of some this year while others remained more normal. Keep in mind that mature Halcyon has a leaf size of around 8 x 5 inches, and it can take years for them to display those characteristics (regardless of how old the plants were when you first got them).

Glorified' Buttercups: Globeflowers and Marsh Marigolds - Dave's Garden Check this site -- good info, but I am still confused as to your plants! I would have said that your first photo is Trollius, and the other in question (Golden Queen) is a Calthus palustris, but that seems wrong after I read the article. The trollius does bloom earlier than Golden Queen, apparently. I am very confused now... So I shall cease and desist and let more knowledgeable folk answer here -- hope you can sort this out!!