Having watched fortunei hyacynthina and Gold Standard for over 30 years now, it is indeed possible to have a hosta clump that is in continual change. Others that sport often include Neat Splash and Galaxy. The unstable forms can have 3-5 variations on a given clump; when you divide them out, they are stable for a while and then continue to sport. Sometimes back to the orginal stock and even just a few sports back! Back in the late 1980's I used to keep a bed of unstable Gold Standard that Mom and I would cull out from our field grown divisions. Some would stabilize but more often than not they would continue to be unstable. They would often have a great growth burst one year and then when divided they would wane, as many unstable forms die out over a few years as well. I have an old clump of Galaxy that came from an unstable batch my mother sent me many years ago: it is sheer beauty on 2-3 divisions, plain green on the balance of the leaves. May divide it this year. Have a bunch more Galaxy that have divided out as all green - keep hoping they will begin to revert back to full color, as Galaxy has some unique colorations. On a separate note, we just finished 4 days of constant rain which passed 5 inches in the rain gauge. Erased a short term drought. Was concerned when I noticed the front full sun Aphrodite bed having some root tips breaking growth and popping out of the ground, a sure sign of spring coming! Temps are going down to +10 degrees next week, but we are that much closer to Spring. Waiting for the 4-8 inches of white stuff in the next 8 hours! Bruce

Sorry...I'm just eager to know what they all are! Next time I will post in smaller batches and include a ruler as suggested by another poster in my other thread. Halcyon does fit #5 and #4...since I think I got these both from my dad...planted it different locations. I will move #4 closer to #5 and see if that helps any. I checked the back of the "Undulata Albomarginata". They are glossy! Thanks! As for #9... I'm thinking that and #3 are the same. They are about the same size (you wouldn't know since I didn't include a ruler) and both of these plants came with the property. I'll take better photos and include a ruler and make a new post regarding these ones. Thanks for all the help!

And on the other side of the pathway...Bridegroom, Fried Green Tomatoes, Blue Angel, Reptilian, Inniswood, Yellow Splash Rim, Tokudama Flavocircinalis and Aureomarginata, Jack of Diamonds, American Sweetheart.... This bed was started just last year. Bought the largest plants I could find! Still some work to do at the top of the hill, needs clearing out of poison ivy, wild honeysuckle, other vines, etc.

My section of garden that I put all my new hostas in (what a busy day saturday was...lol) is long probably say bout 50 feet and its only bout 3 feet wide....if that big ole double wide gate to gain access to the backyard wasn't there, it would be a whole different garden lemme tell ya and I'd have LOTSA room...lol So I will most likely need to keep all in check in a few years time anyway. Along the back of the garden in my more heavily shaded side of the garden (I really could only technically on the large/medium scale only put 5 since I wanted to put small ones in front of them following the flow of my mulch/rock curve with some ornamental grass and coral bells. I placed Blue Ivory/Queen of the Seas/Thunderbolt/Love Pat and the El Nino. You see the pattern...varigated/solid/varigated/solid etc...I should ripped the central air conditioner out...roflol....that woulda gave me room for one more solid and another varigated...tee hee The other side of my garden on the sunnier side has my Liberty, Pauls Glory and Dream Weaver in the back. All my smaller hostas and companion planting are in the front section. I'm super happy with how it turned out and can't wait for everything to grow up a little ...Years ago I haphazardly overplanted my perennial beds and had a nightmare on my hands....so this time around with the redo I seem to be obsessed with planning...lol