My Orange Crush died, Quilting Bee is a cutie. Dont know much about the others - good luck with all

Alexa

I got Quilting Bee last year. It wasn't too special then, but this year, it's quite a beauty!

don't know Orange Crush... it has some good heritage - Sea Prize is an interesting streaker pod parent that produces lots of neat babies, and Maekawa has an elegant leaf with distinctive white backing. Maekawa is a slow, difficult grower - but Sea Prize is vigorous as are the seedlings I've grown from it...

Quilting Bee has been around a while... I consider it a very under-rated hosta. I moved it last year to the front of a bed at a curve in my pathway and in the last couple of days I've had a number of comments on it. The word "cute" is often involved... Neat little round leaves with good corrugation... in a world full of hosta lookalikes, I'd say this one is unique. I never confuse it with any other...

Dixie Chickadee is the reverse sport of Tony Avent's 'Dixie Chick.' Dixie Chick has neat heart-shaped shiny green leaves with white margins which sometimes show green flecks, on a perfectly proportioned clump. Undisturbed, Dixie Chick will exceed what most of us call minis and will make a nice small clump.

It's parentage is the very small Masquerade, the tiny white-centered sport of venusta, the smallest hosta species... crossed with the medium-sized shiny green Invincible. It's not exactly clear to me how they got a margined seedling out of this cross... I guess Masquerade is unstable enough to function as a streaker parent.

It's reversed sport was named Chickadee... with green margins and white centers with flecks. I don't remember the story for sure, but I think they found out 'Chickadee' was already taken, so they renamed it 'Dixie Chickadee.'

The good news is DCdee is more distinctive than DC... the white flecks and variegation are much more distinctive than the parent. The bad news... DCdee is not as vigorous - probably due to the obvious, that white centers don't have as much chlorophyll as white margined reverses. The leaves tend to stay smaller, as does the plant - and DCdee is notorious for sporting a lot of all green divisions and sometimes white-edged ones that look like DC.

Again, it is not clear to me why a very unstable mother plant, Masquerade, would produce a reasonably stable baby, Dixie Chick, which would then sport to a reverse that is again, like Grandma, very unstable. But that's what happened...

I've often heard people complain about constantly pulling off the green divisions. I prefer to make lemonade out of those lemons... I pop them in "the back forty" and grow them for a year, then use them in bonsai pots and troughs... anytime I need a really neat shiny green leaf...

Little Treasure was new in the wholesale trade this year. It is billed as the tetraploid sport of Little Jay. Little Jay is very cute, but I saw a lot of instability in the ones I got last year - all green divisions in particular... and with a lot of white, it wasn't super vigorous or sturdy.

The Little Treasures I got this year seem to be a distinct improvement over Little Jay. In the pots they are stronger plants, faster growing, thicker and more sturdy leaves...

I think you'll like all three...

Nice list of new plants, I have none of the above YET :) So I am no help.Orange crush sound yummy . Good luck w/ them & happy planting.