Yes, On Stage is an obvious choice. It is probably the best of the late arising montanas (as opposed to the earlier arising ones like montana Aureo). I have most of those on your list as this family of Hosta is a favorite of mine. I really like Ebb Tide. It's a medium sized plant but the form is very upright.

Another of my favorites is Mountain Snow. It's a slow grower but worth the wait.

You've probably seen many others. Alligator Shoes is a favorite. It's medium large with a good growth rate.

Jade Cascade is a stunning, eye catching plant in a garden. But it's very slow growing and takes 5 or 6 years to become a great plant. Donahue Piecrust is a likely a naturally occurring variety of the species. It's pretty much the same as the species plant with the wavy edge. Montana Mac is HUGE. Both of these are used by hybridizers. Hollywood Lights is another late arriving one that is very beautiful.

There are lots more montana types. Keep looking.

Steve

Know what you mean, Denis. There is something about the leaf form that draws me in. Is it the size and shape of the whole plant, or the size and shape of leaf.....the elongated bottom half of a huge leaf, or the ruffled edges, or in essence, just the "majesty" of a Montana? A mature Aureomarginata always takes my breath away!...and that's just for starters in the Montana line.

If I had acreage, (like you) I'd be collecting them too!

I have a new 2014 Choko Nishiki/On Stage and I'll be looking for it emerging very LATE as the vendor indicated...like, about 5 times a day, lol. Cannot wait for spring.

Ebb Tide is superb, Steve!

Two of my favorite montanas are...

On Stage

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and Aureomarginata

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tj

Ack I had a long reply written and chrome had a brain freeze and I lost it, poo!

Tiddsolo, They look great together very nice, both are 8 euros at Fransen, good stuff.

Steve, Ebb Tide is great I saw a photo of one recently on the AHS facebook group that was huge almost as big as aM, Mountain Snow has that Wonderful Grey/Green streakiness I like in these as does Alligator Shoes but with really nice texture too. Yes so many of these to collect what fun!

Jo, They have a little bit of everything I like, Nice to get a good size plant to start off with and she seems to have bulked up quite a bit by the second pic, nice. I can't wait for spring either.

Tj, You have captured fantastic colour in your On Stage lovely, your mA looks huge and has swallowed a large chunk or your garden lol!

I am going to have a great time amassing these beauties and watching them grow (slowly lol)

thanks for sharing your beautiful photos.

Denis

My mA has a ways to go yet.

I have 3.

Silk Kimono, Denis. Nice and big and beautiful, as you might expect a montana hybrid would be. This was only a young, two-eyed plant last season, but the leaves were over 24 inches from the ground.

Very nice Don, I have seen a pic of a mature one and will def get it, some of the really great ones are Dorothy Benedict x montana. Thanks.

Denis

Yellow River is one variety I didn't spot in this thread, Denis. I don't have it, but looks like a nice one. Gets giant-sized.

HOLLYWOOD LIGHTS has been one of my favorites and grows well. I have several and they have grown well in different light conditions. I have a JADE CASCADE and it is a very slow grower, but I still have hopes that it will get going some year.

Don, I got Yellow River last autumn and am looking forward to seeing it grow up, it has a great look to it. I have the room for it. I found Silk Kimono at van den Top so will be getting her and he sends big plants, yeah!

Sunnywood, your Hollywood Lights looks great, I have it in in my "basket" on one of my favorite suppliers website, I have not pressed buy yet as I might/will add to it lol, good to hear that it grows well, thanks. For Jade Cascade I will have to use a supplier I have not used before so fingers crossed with that one. Seems to be well known to be slow I am reading it everywhere I see it, ah well Patience is a virtue lol.

Last night I added to an order I made in November with Fransen, I added:

montana

Mountain Snow

montana macrophylla

Niagara Falls

Paradise Backstage

and two not relevant to this thread;

Cup of Grace

Ringtail

These will be winging their way to me in the second week of march, I am itching to see them and the others too of course. I have sourced some of the others and will order in due course.

Denis

Denis, where did you order your Jade Cascade? I'm also looking for it, but can not find it at my favourite dealers. Normally I order at Van den Top, absolutely great plants and Planwerk. I will also try a new dealer this spring, Dämmergrün, located in Austria...I ordered On Stage at VDT for April :-) Last year I got MA (together with some others) from them, such a good quality!

Karin, I ordered it from a nursery in Belgium called Coolplants, http://en.coolplants.com/ at the very good price of €6.00, They have a good selection and I have ordered twice from them and have received good sized plants, they don't bare root them, they just slip the pot off and bag the rootball. The only bad thing is that they don't pack the plants very well and there was a little damage to some of the hostas but they grew out of that in no time.

This was the Jade Cascade when I got it in July 2015.

Not bad eh?

This was the rest of the order.

http://forums.gardenweb.com/discussions/3267943/got-some-new-hostas-yeah?n=11

This thread is about an order from them I got this spring so you can see the size of their plants.

http://forums.gardenweb.com/discussions/3855548/first-order-of-2016?n=31

I am making a list for another order at the moment.

I have ordered from VDT once and got great plants and your photo shows how good they are, I will be interested to see your plants from Dammergrun, He does not show a price for shipping to Ireland, I must Email him. Are you going to get any of his Oberland hostas?

Anyway hope this helps.

Denis

Thank you, Denis, this helps very much. So I will order at least that Jade Cascade from them, I simply have to...! I will post pictures of my Dämmergrün order in April, that's for sure. Stefan is a very nice guy, started as private gardener with beautiful hostas and made a small business out of his passion. I have to pay 13 Euro for around 20 hostas to Germany, so that's not too expensive. I ordered Oberland Spring Air and I'm also thinking about Oberland Advanced Technology. But I will wait until after I got my first order. I already get around 50 new hostas in spring and will spent my weekend with trilling holes in new buckets:-) Addicted, you surely know how it is...And I got a new private contact on facebook, he has gorgeous hostas and is willing to share .

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1420671601529547/

His name is Renaat Souvagie from Belgium, we are just doing the Alphabet in this group, I must admit a stole the idea, but it is to great not to try:-)

Have a nice day, Karin

'First Love' is very nice also...a reverse montana 'Aureomarginata'.

Absolutely true, so another one for the list...