So Sweet or Golden Tiara

9 years ago

Do you think these 2 hostas are the same? Are they both Golden Tiara or is one of them So Sweet? Both are fairly small in size. I at one time had both of these hostas, but now not sure which is which. Thanks!

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hostasmith
9 years ago
GT will have lavender flowers, July to August. SS will have white fragrant flowers, August on. Also the edges of SS will get creamy white and GT will stay gold, unless it is in lots of sun.
Babka NorCal 9b
9 years ago
Left one is So Sweet. The right one, with wider margins and smaller leaves, is Golden Tiara. My So Sweet is definitely larger than my Golden Tiara.

-Babka
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I would love to get something more exotic, but given that there are no good nurseries around here, the norm is all I get. I always look, and almost everything offered is either something I don't want (like over-priced aureo-marginata) or something I now have. I won't mail-order again. I ordered 15 hostas from a well-known online hosta nursery 4 years ago when laying out my first shade bed, and what I got was a joke. Some of those plants have STILL only got 2 leaves. I've heard of "sleep, creep and leap", but I'm still waiting. The only thing that had grown much from that order has been the Golden Tiara. That has done well. I filled out the rest of the bed with potted ones I picked up whenever I saw something I liked, and those are all increasing well.
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Actually, the leaves of Grand Tiara are only slightly thicker than its diploid parent, Golden Tiara. The leaf thickness of the majority of hostas is .0090 to .0110 inches, when measured between the veins. Golden Tiara leaves measure .0065 to .0070 inches thick, while Grand Tiara leaves are .0070 to .0080 inches thick. So the leaves of Grand Tiara, while slightly thicker than Golden Tiara, are still thinner than the average hosta.
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No flowers here either, except maybe for a few of the mice. I don't like them sticking way up above the leaves. I used to cut and bring in some of the flower stalks on the fragrant ones, but they put too much odor in the air, even with windows open. When you look at some of the flowers really up close, they are simply beautiful...BUT I like the smell of sauted garlic, or a ripe pineapple, not perfumes. To each his own. ;-) -Babka
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it grows like a weed .. AFTER IT GROWS THE ROOTS IT NEEDS .. which can taek one to 5 to 7 years [for giants] even on this weed... i wouldnt expect much the first year ... next year.. watch out ... what they said about depth .... looks like its on the edge of pavement ... the retained heat at night.. may be problematic .. in how pretty this thing is in late summer or fall ... seems shape is off for GT ... maybe i will walk by mine and compare ... it should be more rounder ... more heart shaped ... but that could be the maturity we are talking about ... and the edge should be much more yellow ... but that might be a sun/stress thing ... ken
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ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
9 years ago
neither is golden tiara ...

right might be grand tiara with the MUCH WIDER edge ...

it would help.. if you threw a scale into the pix.. anything we might all recognize ...

look closely at the edges in your pic.. they are not the same in any sense ....

and i am going to guess.. w/o the scale... that the leaves are significantly different in size ... rip one off each plant... and you will see ... and no tiara has the length to width ratio of the left one ...

i presume you know how to compare at the hosta library???

ken
arcy_gw
9 years ago
My Golden Tiara has rounder leaves. To the left of the red plant.

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