Merry Christmas - Hosta 'Christmas Tree'

hostahillbilly

11 years ago

Since it is Christmas Eve:

Here is a link that might be useful:

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ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
11 years ago
super..

now throw in Night before xmas ... lol .. and we will be all set ...

MC and HNYear to you and your redneck wife.. lol ..

whilst!!!

ken
jan_on zone 5b
11 years ago
OK - T'was the 'Night Before Christmas'.
Have a wonderful one all.......
Jan
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Belated Merry Christmas to all. Especially to Triciae, who was on my mind a lot this holiday and will be during future holidays. Dear Wonder Woman, I hope you are doing well, where ever you are. Thank you for showing me what courage and strength and kindness are. We drove down to the Bay Area for the holidays. Christmas Eve we had dinner with our good friends in Berkeley, raw oysters with mignonette, cracked crab, and the traditional Buche de Noel. Last night we had dinner with other good friends in Richmond, tenderloin, mashed potatoes and a warm cauliflower-brussel sprout salad. I made half of the tenderloin, cut pieces 1" thick and tied them into rounds, pan cooked, with a sauce of reduced white balsamic vinegar, Muscat wine, shallots and garlic, butter, sauteed mushroom stems, blended smooth, then simmered over whole mushroom caps. No recipe, just made it up. Our hostess roasted the rest of the tenderloin with a red wine and shallot reduction. We were supervised by a friend who is a head chef at a large hotel and, for the first time in many years, didn't have to work on Christmas day, but was nonetheless pressed into service which he did with good humour. I've been negotiating a stressful matter at work for the past few weeks. As of Dec 24, we were uncertain whether our little business unit would be shut down and I had prepared myself to be jobless come Jan 1st. That all got resolved satisfactorily at noon on Christmas Eve, final document review pending, so for the first time in a month, I was able to relax and unclench. It was nice.
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I have WB and it’s not that. The WB seems to have an elongated leaf. Also my CT is old. Not sure how long WB is. Though, they are very similar........ debra
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tsugajunkie z5 SE WI ♱
11 years ago
We are a visual lot, Jan, so here's a pic

Twas the Night Before Christmas...

A Blessed Christmas to all.

tj
almosthooked zone5
11 years ago
TJ what a beauty. I got my young one this past summer and I really like it and someday it will look like yours too( I hope) Everyone have a great Christmas
Faye
ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
11 years ago
hey almost..

if you are saying yours is NBC.. you might note.. junkies has a white center.. and your has a white edge ...

and it looks like a pretty washed out CT????

ken
almosthooked zone5
11 years ago
nope mine is Christmas tree. I was referring to size of her plant. All can't be perfect until they are given a fighting chance. Mine got too much sun so had to be moved. I am sure you can show us all a perfect one though Ken

This post was edited by almosthooked on Mon, Dec 24, 12 at 22:36
tsugajunkie z5 SE WI ♱
11 years ago
"I was referring to size of her plant."

You want to make that his plant. lol
The "T" in tj is Tom.

tj
almosthooked zone5
11 years ago
I should edit the she to HE.. am so use to in my neck of the woods where it is the ladies that garden and tend to forget the men can so a darn good job too! NICE plant Tom! lol
hostahillbilly
Original Author
11 years ago
I'll add that NBC is, far and away, the most reliable white-centered Hosta here, so is oft used where a white-centered one is needed.

Merry,

hh
ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
11 years ago
hey HH ...

whilst i might agree.. there might be a white centered undulata ... which is more reliably used ...

but i think 'bud is wiser' .. might be much better .. lol .. mostly because it is so different.. isnt it????

ken
ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
11 years ago
anybody out there....???

isnt bud is wiser.. NBC?????

has anyone been reading their books over break???

ken
Babka NorCal 9b
11 years ago
Hey Ken, what books have you been reading? Perhaps I don't have the latest scoop on these, but I thought NBC is a sport of White Christmas, and Bud Is Wiser is a sport of Blue Mammoth. Lots of mine look the same with a little egg-nog... ;-)

-Babka
in ny zone5
11 years ago
Ha! a lot of mine look also the same with 2 Buds, though more with 2 Samuel Adams.

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Merry Christmas - Hosta 'Christmas Tree'

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