Pics from my garden (page 3)

donrawson

11 years ago

Crambe cordifolia

streaked breeder

Polar Moon

Color Revolt (Rawson 2011)

American Blue Wrinkles (Wade NR) - this is going to be a wonderful hosta! Dark blue, heavily-puckered leaves that are cupped downward...

American Blue Wrinkles

Wide Brim streaked

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When I Dream (Rawson NR)

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A Many-splendored Thing

A Many-splendored Thing

Jack of Diamonds

Ocean's Fury (Rawson NR) - this is the bluest hosta I grow

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jeremywalsh
11 years ago
Awesome! I have been on the fence about Jack of Diamonds, but I think you just put me over the top!

JW
Steve Massachusetts
11 years ago
Thanks for sharing, Don. Beautifully grown specimens. Do you have anything coming out soon? Blue Rhino?

Steve
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I am so happy to see your pictures again! I was here back then, but mostly lurking, which I still do a lot because I am not very good about id-ing my plants since the dogs destroyed my labels and I gave up There are a few I know the names of, but not too many. You were one of my secret mentors when I started my hosta planting! I am sorry your 'When I Dream' was a disappointment, but there is so much to love about your gardens! Thank you for that!!!
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I know what you mean about staying away from the hosta forum when my hostas are still hiding. It usually just make me even more sad to see hostas up and about when I know mine are usually at least a month behind. I think I suffer from hosta depression during the winter;) Atlantis has been a very fast growing hosta for me. It's in the Abba Dabba family, which for the most part are fast growing. Jen
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Gesila
11 years ago
Don, are those the Color Revolts that were over there by the Pride and Joy we got? They are looking good!

Gesila
leafwatcher
11 years ago
So many things I am not used to seeing ! all of them incredible !
User
11 years ago
Don, I guess I am about to reach a new plateau in hosta appreciation, going out of 101 into the next level, because I felt about your Color Revolt like I did the first time I stood in front of a real honest to God Monet painting at the Art Institute of Chicago....less than two feet away from a canvas touched by that master color and light artist. What a thrill.

Color Revolt is breath taking.
Gesila
11 years ago
Anyone reccognize this one from Don's post? It seems to have found a new home :)
Steve Massachusetts
11 years ago
Did you visit him last night and bring a shovel?

Steve
Gesila
11 years ago
Steve, you don't need a shovel in Don's garden, a pitchfork works!

Gesila
hosta_freak
11 years ago
Does he know you now have his hosta? Lol!! Phil
bkay2000
11 years ago
Plants are beauiful.

What does NR mean?

bkay
Gesila
11 years ago
NR = Not registered.
User
11 years ago
Gesila, that strange car driving by after dark with the Alabama tags, pay no attention it is just some lost soul.

That Color Revolt is awesome. You are so fortunate.
Will it be one he keeps to register and make available one day...before I turn totally senile and forget everything?

New home for that gorgeous thing! How cool is that!
gayle0000
11 years ago
Your Jack of Diamonds is fabulous! I bought that about 8-9 years ago and left it behind at my last house...wonder often how it's doing. I just may have to get another one.
Gayle
User
11 years ago
Goodness, I have to bring this forward for folks to see Color Revolt if nothing else. I've lusted after that plant.

It is good to note that a certain hybridizer keeps showing up in the things you find beautiful. Some hosta which are soul satisfying unbeknownst to me turn out to be connected to a person who posts here just like everyone else, but what we don't know is he is a mildmannered man until he goes into that phone booth...and comes out as the caped crusader to leap tall bushes in a single bound, etc etc.
I think he must put some kryptonite into the leaves of some hosta he coaxes from the gene pool....like Rhino Hide, which I had to have....and gave it as a present before I realized I could grow it here.....and now I see that my secret love, Color Revolt, is another one of his.

Sometimes superman is just like the guy next door. Awesome.
chris-e
11 years ago
I agree with everything everyone has said about Color Revolt! I swore that I have no room for any more, but that one will make me break my pledge.

chris

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