Maybe Fortunei Aureomarginata and Grand Tiara.

Paul

You might have hit them on the nose!! Looking at pictures on hostalibrary, it seems likely.

THANKS!! That was quite easy!

agree.. but sometimes a scale would help .... a lighter.. ruler.. anything we would recognize.. so that it would be more apparent that the second is much smaller than the first, e.g. ....

first pic.. is it really planted that close to a tree???

and why do you allow grass in there????

ken

my two guesses were the same, though the comment of "thinner" suggests it could be a Golden Tiara.

Grand Tiara is the tetraploid sport of Golden, so its leaves are thicker and the stems are stronger.

But even though they are thicker, I wouldn't call them thick... and the margins on your plant look like the wider margins on Grand... so that is still my guess...

LOL Ken, I stuffed those in that spot late last year. It's not really a full-fledged garden, just an oak tree that was boring and homeless hostas that got paired up. In light of hosta safety from lawn mowers, I put the small eyes relatively close to the oak to avoid the mower blades. I can move them out if they get too crammed, but I kind of like the look of it with certain varieties.

I typically plant now and create the garden later. So far, I've not received approval from hubby to put in a formal edging and make a "real" garden because of proximity to the neighbors. I suppose one way around it is to get rid of the grass and forego the edging, but I'd rather be working on grass removal in areas I won't have to perform that task again (areas I can edge).

At the very least, I'll probably pull a few clumps of grass this spring, mulch with oak leaves and call it a day. It's a good thing you called me on the hosta abuse, they will thank you, Ken :-)