From White Oak Nursery, I ordered: Abiqua Moonbeam Alex Summers Jewel of the Nile June Touch of Class Guacamole Captain Kirk Thunderbolt and from Hilltop Farms, I ordered: American Icon Blue Mouse Ears Dark Shadows Fujibotan Journeys End plantaginea Aphrodite Sun Power I had spring fever so bad, I got a little carried away ordering online! Off-topic, but I hadn't seen hide nor hair, or even the tip of an eye of my Striptease, even though all my other hostas are up. Good news - saw some Striptease eyes peeking out today! Deanna

I thought i got a card from homestead with a date on it and said he was coming with his book to do a signing am i losing it? no wait my wife said the same thing but i can't find the card I'll give them a call today ken if we are going you should come.

Melissa, Here's my list of books which relate to hostas. Let me know of any additions or corrections. Along with those listed below, Mark Zilis of Q & Z Nursery is working on a wonderful new book about hostas. The book will contain much information. It will probably be 9" x 12" hardbound, about 1000 pages, encyclopedia format, with many photos. Mark has not decided on a title for the new book. He is trying to get it to the publisher this fall. The book will be copyrighted by Q & Z Nursery. Thank you, Don Hosta Books (Revised 9-9-07) Aden, Paul, editor and compiler. The Hosta Book (Second Edition). Portland, OR: Timber Press, 1994. 133 pp. American Hosta Society. The Hosta Journal. Robert C. Olson, editor. American Hosta Society. Published three times a year. Free for AHS members. American Hosta Society. The Hosta Adventure: A Growers Guide. c/o Steve Greene, Sudbury, MA: American Hosta Society, 2001. 32 pp. American Hosta Society. The Silver Book. c/o Steve Greene, Sudbury, MA: American Hosta Society. The Silver Book is a now a multi-volume set entitled The Genus Hosta: List of Registered Cultivars , List of Species, and Botanical Varieties and Forms and Specioids. Armitage, Allan. This is Gardening : Hostas. (CD-ROM) Blacksburg, VA: Interactive Design & Development, Inc., 2001. Barrett, Rosemary. Hostas. Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books Inc., 2004. 143 pp. Bird, Richard and Tarrant, David. Hostas and Other Shade-Loving Plants. Los Angeles: Whitehouse Spelling Publications, 1999. 144 pp. Bond, Sandra. Hostas. New York, NY: Sterling Pub. Co. Inc., 1992. 96 pp. British Hosta & Hemerocallis Society. Bulletin of the British Hosta & Hemerocallis Society. c/o Linda Hinton, Stroud, Gloucestershire. Cultivated Plant Code. Wimborne, Dorset: Quarterjack Press, 1995. Druse, Ken. The Natural Shade Garden. New York, NY: Clarkson N. Potter Inc., 1992. 280 pp. Elslager, Edward, editor. HostaScience journal. Ann Arbor, MI: Edward Elslager. Published biannually. Fisher, Eunice V. Hostas: The Aristocratic Plant for Shady Gardens. 1973. 63 pp. Greene, Steven H. 2007 Hosta Retail Finder. Sudbury, MA: Greene Acre Sales, 2007. 169 pp. Grenfell, Diana. Hostas. Worcestershire, UK: The Hardy Plant Society, 1993. Grenfell, Diana. Hostas. London: Cassell, 2002. 96 pp. Grenfell, Diana. Hostas (Wisley Handbooks). London: Mitchell Beazley, 2008. 96 pp. Grenfell, Diana. Hosta, The Flowering Foliage Plant. Portland, OR: Timber Press, 1990. 208 pp. Grenfell, Diana and Shadrack, Michael. Timber Press Pocket Guide to Hostas. Portland, OR: Timber Press, 2007. 212 pp. Grenfell, Diana and Shadrack, Michael. The Color Encyclopedia of Hostas. Portland, OR: Timber Press, 2004. 427 pp. Grenfell, Diana. The GardenerÂs Guide to Growing Hostas. Portland, OR: Timber Press, 2001. 160 pp. Hart, Rhonda Massingham. Bugs, Slugs & Other Thugs- Controlling Garden Pests Organically. Pownal, VT: Storey Publishing, 1991. 214 pp. Hodgson, Larry. Making the Most of Shade: How to Plan, Plant, and Grow a Fabulous Garden that Lightens up the Shadows. New York, NY: Rodale Inc., 2005. 416 pp. Isaacson, Richard T., compiler. Andersen Horticultural LibraryÂs Source List of Plants and Seeds. (2007 Edition). Chanhassen, MN: University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, 2007. Kohlein, Fritz. Hosta (Funkien). Ulmer, UK: Stuttgart, 1993. 192 pp. Mikolajski, Andrew. Hostas. London: Southwater Publishing, 2001. 64 pp. Pease, Katherine. The 1999 Green Pages Hosta Directory. Kansas City, MO: (self-published). 1998. 120 pp. Phillips, Leonard, editor. Hosta Magazine. Peabody, MA: Leonard Phillips. Published bi-monthly. Currently out-of-print. Schenk, George. The Complete Shade Gardener. (Second Edition). Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1994. 311 pp. Schmid, W. George. The Genus Hosta. Portland, OR: Timber Press, 1992. 480 pp. Wade, Van R. 2002 American Hosta Guide. Bellville, OH: Wade & Gatton Nurseries, 2002. 512 pp. Revised annually in an abbreviated format. Zilis, Mark R. The Hosta Handbook. Rochelle, IL: Q & Z Nursery, Inc., 2000. 600 pp.

Yes, I read the Field Guide too. I like it a lot. Much easier to deal with spiral bound books when you are reading casually. Not so easy to deal with Zilis' Encyclopedia. However, it was the first book I bought on hosta, in late 2011 I think, and sat up reading it for many hours--in bed, of course. With that book, the real meat of it is in the first 100 or more pages, all about hosta culture. Very informative. Then you get to the specific hosta descriptions....then a detailed index. We have some great tools available for free online as Bernd points out. All those small squares to features on Hosta Library are better than any one book title. Schmid is a very patient and particularly precise plantsman who knows more than I can ever comprehend. Makes me wish I'd taken botany instead of physics in school. Anyway, if you have a dictionary stand around, get rid of that mere word book and replace it on the stand with Zilis' Hosta Encyclopedia. Of course it is not current, but then, that indicates the vitality the subject..