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Some closeup pics from last year,love big leaves ..

11 years ago

Not the best of last year, taken later after the heat had started...
Sagae

Guacamole

Twilight

Abiqua Moonbeam

Sum and Substance

Blue Krinkle,Twilight

Olive Bailey Langdon

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don_in_colorado
11 years ago
Beautiful.
newhostalady Z6 ON, Canada
11 years ago
I too love big leaves. My favorite of your photos above is Olive Bailey Langdon. I love the overall shape of the plant, and of course, the big leaves.
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Galiano, are you looking at the pic above or below my 'unknown beefsteak' comment? The one above is brandywine, but the one below (the unknown) actually has regular leaves, which might not be clear from the pic. Just have them in regular old triple mix. My 'seedlings' were large when planted (if I plant small seedlings, they just don't have enough time to produce a lot of fruit in my short season). I use dilute MG from time to time, some high P initially to help roots, then some high N to get the plants going a bit, then more high P later to promote flowering. I apply a lot less than the directions suggest. Also mulched this year for the first time. Other than that, we have not had a lot of rain so I have been able to control the water, and despite the cool weather there has been a fair bit of sun. However, despite the attractive plants, fruits are still at least 2 to 3 weeks behind where they normally are. Star stuff, the typically relied upon last frost date is around May 24 (which coincides with one of our statutory holiday weekends), but for the last few years the weather has been far too cold to plant on that date. We had frost near the end of May this year, and in the first week of June last year. So, end of the first week of June was when plants went in the ground for me. Won't get frost again until end of Sept. or maybe October, but I have found that fruits that I harvest after the end of August tend to be a bit sub-par in terms of texture and flavour. With ideal conditions I would usually be harvesting great fruit from the middle of July to the end of August, with a few outliers coming early, and plenty of second-rate fruits in sept and into oct. Humidity finally starting to show up now, along with some warmer nights, and a few more months of this should help the fruit grow nice and big. Of course that weather tends to wreak a bit of havoc on the foliage, but thats ok as long as I get to start eating tomatoes soon.
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jan_on zone 5b
11 years ago
'Antioch'

'Great Expectations'
Ludicious Acres
11 years ago
Wide Brim

Half & Half

Sharp Dressed Man

Cascades

Stained Glass

Night Before Christmas

This post was edited by Ludisia on Wed, Mar 20, 13 at 13:17
paul_in_mn
11 years ago
Didn't take too many leaf pics last year, but here are a few favorites from the past-

Carnival (too bad the edges drawstring)
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Dick Ward

Earth Angel

Sagae
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War Paint

Paul
newhostalady Z6 ON, Canada
11 years ago
I like the irregular pattern of this leaf on my Great Expectations.

But I really like the photo after editing on photobucket because it looks like this:
leaflover76
11 years ago
Thunderbolt
Ludicious Acres
11 years ago
Paul,

I hope you don't mind . . . I saved that picture of your Earth Angel and made it my desktop background.

Simply Stunning !!! I can not wait for mine to show those mature markings.

Ludi
paul_in_mn
11 years ago
Ludi, you're welcome to use. I sent you an email.

Paul
illinoisdoglover
11 years ago
Hi Paul: Could you explain what you mean by edges drawstring? Love everyones pictures. I will try to take close up of leaves this year. Here is my Thunderbolt.

Leaf Watcher: Could you tell me if you painted your name of your hosta on the rock or did it get etched in the rock? Great idea, beats all those metal markers.
don_in_colorado
11 years ago
Royal Tapestry.
don_in_colorado
11 years ago
Fortunei Aureomarginata.
don_in_colorado
11 years ago
Francee.
leaflover76
11 years ago
Frances Williams
leaflover76
11 years ago
Wide Brim
leaflover76
11 years ago
Dream Weaver
gogirlterri
11 years ago
Newhostalady-your Great Expectations has me giggling so I can hardly type. I immediately saw Pistol-Pete from the cartoons looking right into my eyes. With great big bushy eyebrows and drooping mustachios.

I think it was Pistol Pete who looked like that-help me if I am wrong. (people say I am beyond help but I don't believe it).

Nice pictures everyone. They would all look great framed and on my walls.
Theresa
don_in_colorado
11 years ago
Yosemite Sam?
newhostalady Z6 ON, Canada
11 years ago
Gogirlterri, you have a good imagination! Glad you had good laugh.
paul_in_mn
11 years ago
illinoisdoglover, here's the definition from the American Hosta Society (AHS) - DRAWSTRING EFFECT - the leaf distortion caused by the expansion of the interior of the leaf blade with a correspondingly lesser expansion of the margin tissue. This usually occurs as the result from a narrow white margin and green to gold center; e.g. H. 'Lunar Eclipse'.

So, the margin is growing slower than the green inner part of the leaf and draws the edge in either above or below the leaf. Here's a picture of my Lunar Eclipse... the second flush of leaves will usually not be affected as much. This is as good as Lunar Eclipse ever looked in my garden....so I tossed it.

Link below to a list of hosta that drawstring.

Paul

Here is a link that might be useful: DRAWSTRING-LEAVED HOSTA
mctavish6
11 years ago
Some great pictures above. Paul, your Earth Angel is taken from such an interesting angle. Really nice. Here are a few of the larger leaf picture that I took last year. They were already on Flicker so you have probably seen them elsewhere.

This last one is the largest. It's in my sisters garden outside of Seattle.
User
11 years ago
Magnificent leaves shown here, every one of them.

Newhostalady, I know you are a died-in-the-wool fan of the fall hosta leaf. The recent AHS Journal was discussing the fall color changes as another opportunity to enjoy the hosta. Some more so than others. It's not only you fascinated by the colors.

War Paint...oh my, Paul, your leaf of that is tempting me to think about another order this year, and I really shouldn't.......
After last year's ordering orgy, I am trying a bit of restraint until I see which hosta do not quite make it out of dormancy. Hopefully only those I'm not too fond of, but cannot for the life of me think which ones those might be.
Jon 6a SE MA
11 years ago
Wide Brim

Elegans

Abiqua Gourd

Twilight

2 inches more of snow...this is Spring?
illinoisdoglover
11 years ago
Thanks Paul for the site and info. I noticed Robert Frost is listed. As I grow my in less sun and it must love its environment becuase I have never had any probelms with it.
newhostalady Z6 ON, Canada
11 years ago
Moccasinlanding, I do like the hosta colors in the fall! I look forward to seeing the article on fall coloring in the AHS Journal. I am still waiting to receive it in the mail.
hosta_freak
11 years ago
Here is one of my favorites from last spring. American Halo. Phil
don_in_colorado
11 years ago
American Halo is a beauty, Phil. It's just been added to my Wish List.
in ny zone5
11 years ago
My hosta 'Empress Wu' at the end of June last year. It was then 30 inches tall. Bernd

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