Dax, I had the same thing with Juniperus conferta 'All Gold', I never expected that this one was completely yellow... 'Yukon Blue' doesn't fit in the row of blue 'Conica' types, it's a complete differend one, could be a branch mutation from one of these. Most 'Sander's Blue' are completely blue at a young age, later on the green spots will appear. Mother nature isn't easy, she don't like us to have a nice blue 'Conica' in our gardens ;0) Get rid of the idea that the 'Anderson's Blue Variegated' grows slower then the blue one's, in fact it can grow faster because of more chlorophyl which sounds pretty logical if you ask me...

What was I doin' on the 15th? Just lookin' and not postin'. Some pics from June 15th Captain Kirk 6/15/08 Janet 6/15/08 Mildred Seaver 6/15/08 Montana Aureomarginata (recently divided) 6/15/08 Sea Grotto 6/15/08 Stetson 6/15/08 Sunny Disposition 6/15/08 Lady's Slipper 'pubescens' 6/15/08

Good work Becky and some very worthy plantings! I'm wondering is the one you are describing as "Wolverine" might not be "Scooter" instead. I have both and I would describe mine as of more substance and more vivid coloration than "Wolverine"! I didn't think I'd care for it much but find I'm growing to like it more and more as it matures! And, PLEASE--share the rain with us in Ohio--we need it, too!!! Lot's of promises of it the past few weeks but only a tiny splash one day, so far!:o( janice

Stefanie, It was reported that the testing by Dr. Lockheart showed a 4% chance of infection from surviving bits of infected tissue when HVX infected hosta were dug up. I think that tj is right that your non-suspicious hosta have a risk far less than that If you want to go and plant hosta near them, go ahead. If they develop symptoms you can kill the hosta by painted the leaves stop and bottom with 18% glyphosate (poison ivy strength Round Up) during the growing season without taking a chance of damaging the roots of healthy hostas. You can I feel test strips are valuable to growers, but of little use to home gardeners. HVX symptoms should be readily apparent and if borderline or questionable there is no danger of HVX spreading unless you take the advice of some, panic, and dig it out which runs the risk of spreading any HVX to neighboring plants and also leaving microscopic bits of live tissue which provides a risk when planting new hostas. Strips only test for HVX and if a hosta shows symptoms close or even completely different and tests negative for HVX it can have some other virus. Other viruses are spread by insects and can be far more devastating in a hosta garden. HVX is benign if the infected plant is not cut or scraped and another plant infected with the sap of the infected plant, either immediately or on unsanitized tools. Jon