Second year. Leaves are 9-10 inches long. Taking the 39 degree night and continuous rain and drizzle in stride.

Jon

My Dream Weaver. Quite cupped this year. Very impressed. Dream Queen just gets smaller each year for me.

My Dream Weaver - second year, still only 1 eye but his leaves are huge.

Dream Queen in it's 4th year. The white spots are from the deer repellent sprayed last night.

Here is a link that might be useful: Dream Queen

Planted last September. Looking good. Looks to be more vigorous than my Great Expectations.

Here is a picture of mine. This is the 2nd year in my garden. Last year it had 2 eyes and this year it added 2 more small ones.

Linda

second season for my dream queen so still quite small but growing

Also second year for this Dream Weaver

I wish this was my plant! It's my sisters Dream Weaver. I came back from her house a little over a week ago. Everything was just opening then. Hard to believe but this probably gets bigger as the summer goes on. I'm working on some photos to post of her garden along with Faye's and mine. Maybe soon.

Don't block the exits Judy!!!

Some great examples of the cultivars on topic. I hope mine gets nice like these. It looks good now, but I just got it a few weeks ago from Green Mountain, dormant with 2 big eyes. We'll see if I can grow it for an extended period of time.

Thanks All,
Don B.

And WOW, what kind of steroids is your sister using to feed those plants, McTavish? What a leaf!! :)

Stunned,
Don B.

Don, all of Myrle's sister.s plants look like they are on super steroids and the leaves are twice the size of most other's plants. I haven't had the priveldge of seeing them in person but the pictures are remarkable and so well place to compliment each other. If mine look half that good when they grow I will be a happy gardener! I guess we just have to be patient and keep trying
Faye

Mctavish, Its pictures like that that remind me of how much I Love hostas... Wow.

Here's my Dream Queen taken this morning. Probably 5 years old now.
Cher

Oh My gosh, those are amazing pictures! I lost my 3rd Thunderbolt this year and now have 2 new dream Queens....but maybe I need to look for Dream Weaver...sounds like it might be a better grower?

My Dream Queen looked fine when I got it in August 2011, and in 2012 it sort of fried in the heat here. This year it is down to a late emerging tiny thing, which I had isolated....since others from that nursery had foliar nematodes, and it could have as well.

That's it next to Royal Standard. Might have to do radical potting to correct its problem, whatever it might be.

Wow, loving the Dream Queen pictures.

DQ/DW is an inexpensive hosta that is available in most nurseries. I believe it's a slower grown. However, by the looks of these pictures, it is so worth the wait.

I bought mine in 2010 for 3 bucks. It must not have been picture worthy in prior years, as this is the first picture I've saved of it. It's still not fully unfurled.

Gesila

Is there a difference between Dream Weaver and Dream Queen? There does seem to be some slight differences in the pictures.

Here's a photo of my Thunderbolt taken last July. What's the difference?

I would say that this Dream Weaver is about 6 years old.

Dream Queen

Don...enjoy yours!

My 'Dream Queen' today. About to go out and plant it.

Don B.

The experience that I've had with the three (Dream Queen, Dream Weaver & Thunderbolt) is that, to a hosta addict, they have many differences. Thunderbolt has been the slowest grower for me. I have had to separate an all green sport from it once and will have to again this year. This picture taken in May of a Thunderbolt I have had since 2008. A slow grower but I think its worth it.

This is Thunderbolt in June last year:

Dream Queen has been the hardest to grow for me. She gets smaller every year and the leaves seem to be twisted, whereas Dream Weaver has cupped leaves.

Dream Queen:

Of the three I am partial to Dream Weaver. The cupping is beautiful and the leaf size is the largest of the three. My Dream Weaver in May:

Sometimes Great Expectations gets put into the category of these three girls but I have tried three times to grow GE and cant do it so I have nothing good to say about that hosta.

Just checked my Dream Queen after today's rain. The pot is empty, unless I can dig up a crown. Two weeks ago it had two small leaves, and now there are none. When things dry out a bit, I'll poke around for it, see what happened.

If it is gone, I won't replace it.

My 2nd year dream queen, planted last fall as one single eye. Grows well so far with ~ 1-2 hr afternoon sun and 3 eyes (Rabbits attacked a couple leaves)

Comparison with my 3rd year GE, grows well with 3-4 hrs morning sun. Both have nice texture and big leaves.

Its always interesting reading the comparisons on GE,dream Weaver, Dream Queen, and Thunderbolt.

I seem to have luck with GE, its fairly slow..

My Dream Queen has been absolutely slow as molasses, I actually had to plant a second plant with the first after it went backwards. I do think I will have 5 leaves on it for once ! a couple big leaves, three little ones.

My Thunderbolt grows better than the DQ but slower than GE.

I actually have one eye on a GE that is looking a lot like the DREAM group.