Hi Adamink! Just saw your pics on another forum - can't remember which. It's gotten waaay beautifuler since I was there! Well I'm so bummed about this scape with the hosta on top. It's such a strange phenomenon - you'd think the dang thing would root! I wonder what causes it and why only a few do this. Westy

Hmmm. You probably do know that each hosta bloom lasts only one day, just like a daylily? So to get a long blooming season, pick the varieties known to produce lots of blooms per scape, or lots of scapes - or both. And you can certainly stretch your hosta blooms through the entire growing season by planting varieties known to bloom at different times. So, for example, the early bloomers include the sieboldiana hybrids - Elegans, Bressingham Blue, Blue Mammoth, etc...; also Blue Angel, Love Pat, Abba Dabba Do. Those also produce huge numbers of seed with no effort whatsoever. Mid-season, hm, Permanent Wave is fantastic in my garden; also Revolution, Jade Cascade, and many of the smaller varieties, like Lemon Lime and Blond Elf. And Sum & Substance, and probably many, many others. Then you have the many fragrant varieties plus the likes of Stiletto, Lancifolia, and the tardianas such as Halcyon, June and all of their relatives; Lakeside Looking Glass, which is generally disliked for its susceptibility to bugs, produces a very lovely and unusual nice flower show. And, finally, towards the very end of the season, the red-legged, red-petiole ones, and in my garden Purple Dwarf and Raspberry Sorbet make a real showing, followed by One Man's Treasure and Red October. I hear Rhapsody in Blue is also fantastic with profuse late flowers. This is a very sketchy line of thinking, and of course the precise time of blooming will vary according to the plant's location in a garden - shadier/sunnier, wetter/drier, all make a difference in growth pattern. Good luck! Digs.

Oh - Sparling Burgundy! I like the look of the plant, as well as the flowers! Love to have one of those. And BME - it's beautiful... I have one in a pot and it bloomed nicely this year, but not as nicely as yours peren.all. Yours looks a little larger, maybe more mature, and maybe being in the ground makes a difference. I saw a picture online of Manhattan, though I've never seen one in person, and it seemed to have a really pretty flower formation and color.

I don't usually take pics of seeds but it is such a good idea. I can't always remember how well they produce.Holy Mouse Ears Blue Mouse Ears starting to openBlue Mouse Ears - All the Mouse series have such great flowers.clausa - The flowers never openFall DazzlerFall DazzlerFall Dazzler up closeFragrant Dream with a bee photo bombing.GooberGoober close up.