isnt there one called mostly ghostly???

ken

Yes, but can it be found for sale anywhere? There are several Academy hostas with Hobbit names, Mirkwood, Rivendel, Fanghorn Forest, Isengard, but I've never seen them on the market.

Isn't there a Japanese Ghost Fern? Really a grayish leaf, good for companion planting.

I have Ghost fern. I love that one.

Stachys (lamb's ear) has another name, woundwort. Kinda stretching it but it is a glowy sort of silver, and it will grow in partial shade.

Hosta Ghostmaster and Ghost Fern are my only spooky ones.

This sound like a fun idea and very different than any theme gardens others have mentioned. You might be able to get your hands on Hosta Swamp Monster. And imagine how eerie it will look after a good hard frost.... Can I visit when it is done?

Maybe one day there will be a hosta named
BLACK LAGOON. An early horror show I still remember.

Just thought about my Hosta "Phanthom".

Gesila

Hosta Stephen King is one of the new ones listed in the Naylor's catalog for next year. I find his books very scary.
Another scary sounding hosta in that catalog is Dark Shadows. I'm sure there are enough out there. Have fun.

Beverly

I have 'Electrocution', 'the Razor's Edge' and 'Mack the Knife', might be scary.
Bernd

Wow, lots of good ideas. I like the Swamp Monster, I'll have to see if I can find that one. I did see Stephen King in the Naylor's catalog, not sure I'm going to add that $25 hosta to the deer salad bar this year, tho! I do have a couple of Dark Shadows, one is going to have to be moved down there. Phantom, maybe, if I can find it.

Black Lagoon, I love it! Are you hybridizers out there listening? How about Boggy Creek, remember that? Scared the pee out of me!

I spent part of my afternoon pulling the honeysuckle from the future bed. Tomorrow I'll rake the leaves back, dig out all the surface rocks and put a layer of newspapers down before I put back the leaves and go get a load of compost.

I found a really great mossy stump with wonderful spooky character (do you all hunt for mossy logs and stumps as well as rock to your gardens?) that will be great to grow a hosta against. Also a well-seasoned piece of cherry log with a huge burl, that looks for all the world like a dragon. (Pictures tomorrow, it got dark on me today).

Other ideas: elephant ears; paint glow-in-the-dark eyes on the leaves for Halloween. I also have some Spanish moss that I can use to drape from the trees. There should be enough sun to grow some white pumpkins and moonflower vines. And I found a creepy old dead tree. It needs a creepy face and glowing eyes!!

It will be pretty the rest of the year, too. There is a big patch of mayapples in the spring, a dogwood, 4 golden currents, a Japanese maple, two viburnums, a mock orange, a gooseberry patch, lots of woodland phlox, giant variegated Solomon's seal and three or four azaleas under a dozen assorted oaks and hickories, and it is bordered on two sides by a dry creek, lots of moss and ferns and other spring wildflowers.

Hostabuff, you're all invited to the party next year!

So sorry, I made a booboo with the ghost fern.
I called it the JAPANESE ghost fern.
Just ghost fern.
Japanest painted fern.
HHillbilly pointed out my mistake.

:)

You weren't wrong, "Ghost Fern" is a garden hybrid of two deciduous ferns, the popular Japanese Painted Fern (Athyrium niponicum var 'Pictum'), crossed with a Lady Fern (A. filix-femina). The breeder was Nancy Swell of Virginia. It's often listed as a Japanese painted fern.

I think I found my ground cover. Contrary Mary has lamium "Ghost". White and glowy looking, and will contrast with dark hostas dramatically!

And of course I need baneberry (actaea), also called dolls eyes.

You could let Elvis appear, see 'Elvis Lives'.

Not that anyone would know, but Empress Wu was a ruthless power hungry concubine who killed her own daughter and son in taking steps to gain power. Pretty scary.

tj