I probably haven't been at it as long as you. Phil, I haven't been 'serious' about Hosta for too many years. Seems to me my interest first got piqued about 6 or 7 years ago, when I started to get a bit more intrigued and involved with ornamental gardening. Having said that, this sport appeared on a clump that's been in the same spot for about 20 years or more. Sports happen. Randomly. Heck I've seen, and purchased, fairly common Hosta that are sporting right in the #1 pot they're in at the nursery. Most of the time when a single sporting leaf shows nothing will become of it and it'll be back to normal the next year. Periodically though you will encounter sporting on an entire shoot and that's when it becomes interesting because you'll see a continuation of the process the next year. And as for naming it, it has occurred to me. I have already done some cursory checking to see if there are any known Hyacinthina sports like what I'm experiencing and I have failed to come up with one, but then again a fair number I was unable to pull up any pictures for, so who knows... Here is a link that might be useful: Fortunei Hyacinthina sports

Interesting thread. I have grown "serrano" a few times and have never had fuzzy plants like that. Perhaps there are several subtypes under the name serrano. The peppers on mine look like the photos I have seen here and there - shaped like bullets. In some ways they are shaped like Jalapenos but not as wide at the stem end. More slender the whole length, thus the "bullet" shape. Ain't diversity grand! (and confusing, and maddening, etc.)

I don't really know them. I live on the other side of the tracks. :+) I called them once when my mail lady accidently put their mail in my box but now I can't even remember their name. We all have at least 2 acre parcels and their driveway is gated. Well, mine is gated too, but my gate is a metal farm gate. Theirs is custom iron with automatic openers. I have to get out of my car twice when I leave. Once to open the gate and another to close it. :+" They moved here to raise their children. Now the kids are grown and they want to move back to LA. I found that out at their last yard sale. If they have another one, I will ask them about their table. It is on the internet, after all. I posted photos of my house on the other side, under the same thread you found this table on, Oakley. There is two links. One to house photos in general, then another link to my big fat mess upstairs.

"If anything I find my tastes are influenced negatively here, not in a bad way really, just differently. I love funky bohemian combined with traditional and modern but don't feel that love from most posters so sometimes I second guess myself. There are some canvas prints at Pier One I am crazy about yet they are cheap. Will I hate them because they look cheap? ($30 each btw) Will they make my decor seem too wild? Cheap? As an artist, most other artists abhor this kind of thing and usually are quite snobbish about having only originals in their house. They would not buy a cheap print from Pier One! So, can I over come this pressure and the pressure here (subtle however) and actually get what I love? I do not like the vast majority of art people choose for their home so I would never ask anyone here "what do you think of this print?" I'm rambling but I guess it's all about keeping myself true to me." Bumblebeez, I feel your pain, really I do. :) Something that would truly *speak* to me, would be a gliclee of Monet's Sunrise. It was a work that was derided by critics in its time and I had the opportunity to see it in the Monet Museum in Paris. It would have much more meaning to me, and to my husband, than something I bought off of Etsy or Ebay. At least you, as an artist, have the pedigree be able to get away with buying what you want (not that you should have to make excuses). It's the same way about furniture. If it's not heirloom or CL, there will always be detractors. I just try to suck it up and decorate to the best of my abilities.