Unfurling favourite hosta photos
I'm surrounded by snow so I came up with a thread idea from Jon's post on edible shoots actually. Thanks for the inspiration! ;-)
Do you have a favourite shot, or more, where you captured a hosta in the unfurling stage? That perfect rosette, funnel, vortex or whatever word you might use to show the awakening beauty of hosta leaves? Before they fully open up?
I had to really search but I found a few to get us started.
Since our southern-most friends have theirs already actively growing, their pics would be more recent. But they don't have to be. Mine obviously are from last year.
So then, hunt through your pictures and find your favourite(s) UNFURLING hosta(s) to share.
My first one pictured above is 'Frances Williams'.
This golden beauty is Marrakech. Almost too unfurled but rosettes still present.
Can't see down into the rosettes but seeing the white strip of Striptease is interesting. Will have to try and capture a "rosette" shot this season!
Also almost too open, this is 'Hydon Sunset', a mini.
'Guardian Angel'
'Fire and Ice'
'Wheee!' could be further along by maybe a week..I'll try for a better pic this year.
Well, that should get us started....surprisingly, I don't have as many as I thought I did!
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Jon 6a SE MA
9 years ago
Sagae on a sunny bank
Just transplanted Orange Marmalade. Do, Rey, Mi, Fa, So ,La.....a stunning septet. Seems to like it's new home.
New Liberty....or maybe an alien lizard creature???
Another Sagae in a shadier spot.Unfurling is just starting here in the new No. Dakota territories.
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Mine are starting to unfurl...
Comments (1)Thanks for the great photos. Mine are at about the same stage here in Minneapolis. I'll bet you are really excited watching the bright, fresh colors emerge. Good luck with your addiction....See MoreKeeping a photo record of hosta plants
Comments (43)Jo when you started with hostas and put the "67" after your name, it was a mere blip in time, how long did that last, maybe one week? and you were headed for 100 if I recall correctly. And that may work for you. You have an active life, but you are also compulsive about maintaining your hosta records. Am I right or not? HA,.....I thought so. Now I'm trying to break that hierarchical habit I've had all my life, especially when I was a librarian before I discovered boats and computers. So I like KEY WORDS or TAGS which is so simple a term even the youte of today can understand it. And I am trying to have my files this year posted on Flickr with tags before they upload, but all on my computer or CLOUD are organized by camera file name, by date, and with all sorts of tags--except the ones I need to search with like "gold" or "Solberg" or whatever lets me find it in response to someone's question on this forum. In the end, we all have to know WHICH hosta fulfill certain attributes. I don't rely on an outside service (like Flickr) to be a forever solution to my photos. OH no. I went through Webshots folding up and turning into an observer site only, lost my photos from there. Then I had an external harddrive fail on me. So I'm pretty concerned about keeping the pictures themselves. It's a fun thing for me. I can sit here and immerse myself in viewing the pictures I took, refresh the mental notes I made to myself about who was who when they had missing names. I'd check the past photos. It works for me. And that is one reason I take pictures with more than one hosta in them. If I lose the nametag, and I know who it's neighbor is, then I look for the picture of the known neighbor, and voila, I see who the would-be NOID is. That is also why I try to identify all the hosta in the photo too. Does anyone else watch their photos as a full screen slideshow? Do you say the names of the hosta before the slide changes? And for those you missed, do you go look at them next day to see who they are? Well, I do that. Seems to me you could put it on a manual slideshow, so you can play NAME THE HOSTA at your next club gathering, or your family gathering if everyone is into the garden thing. I'd play it. Lose, probably. Except where my own personal garden comes in. I'm getting much better. I think watching the slideshow helps a lot. Okay, now that really wasn't off topic was it? It simply says how I use my indexing. ;)...See MoreLook what's unfurling!
Comments (25)Mocc, my son's name is Andrew so I had to have that one. I think I will ask for mature photos and see if anyone else is growing it. It is coming up lovely so far. I don't even know how I ended up with GE. I never knowing bought it but a Hosta friend and this forum have all identified it as GE. I feel quite lucky as I guess it is hard to grow but worth it if it performs for you, so I am taking the challenge and hoping for the best. Jo, thanks for the compliment. It is this forum that helped me realise the value of the mature ones and how they can look very different as they mature. I just bought Olive Bailey Langdon and it looks very little like the beautiful mature photos you see of it. But I know it is worth the wait....See MoreMore random hosta photos
Comments (16)Thank you for looking and for the very kind words and compliments my Hosta friends. :-) Before I identify #1, I want to share some of my thoughts with you all. When looking through my pictures in search of post-worthy shots, I found some “leafy” shots. Close-ups add a mystique to hostas that a whole plant can’t sometimes match. The colours seem to me to be more pronounced and sometimes I am surprised to find an additional hue in a margin I wasn’t aware of when looking at the whole plant. Sometimes, when I am admiring a whole plant I get distracted by colour, leaf and mound shape ... and it’s not until I take a picture and enlarge it later to examine it... that I find that extra-something... as in picture #1. The first photo is of LIBERTY! It isn’t easy to discern its size or shape from this close-up and the seasonal colour has transitioned to a whiter margin, making it more difficult to identify. I didn’t intend to stump you with that photo but I guess I did anyway, lol. Steve, you maintain beautiful hostas so I’m feeling a bit heady by your flattering comment! :D Mbug, so many people have enabled me but I think it was your beautiful (you are not capable of taking anything but perfect pictures) photo of Mourning Dove that told me I had to get one! I wish I could protect it more from water and weather blemishes. Windymess, I am thrilled you liked Antioch enough to get one for yourself and that I can take the credit, lol! Makes me proud of my Antioch! It is one of the exceptional oldies that may be under-rated. Always looks good, doesn’t it? Mbug’s recent posting of Antioch proves it! Sandyslopes, thank you and I agree as it’s a favourite picture among a handful ... I may have to create a collage to frame - during the winter....See Morejosephines167 z5 ON Canada
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9 years agonewhostalady Z6 ON, Canada
9 years agoI have been enjoying all the photos each one of you have presented here! I have finally begun to take some photos of my hostas. It's lots of fun! Here they are:
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9 years agotiddisolo z8 Wales UK
9 years agoJo, just realized the title states "favourite ".
Is that favourite photo or favourite hosta?
Whose to chose? it's like asking who is your favourite child?
They are all favourite!
Any way which one of these ?
This one ? War Paint
or this one. Sagae
Then there is White Christmas
and Green with Envy
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9 years agoThanks Jo! At present, Wolverine (in pot), GE (in pot), Seducer (in pot) and Wide Brim (in ground) are ahead of the rest in growth this season. I still have a few that haven't emerged as yet. Here is a photo of Wide Brim today after watering.
DelawareDonna . . . now that you mention it, I can see why you thought of a Frozen Margarita! Thanks for my first chuckle of the day!
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8 years agoJo....what a great thread!....can't stay away....Love Spring!!
Minuteman
Warwick Comet
Great Expectations
June
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Dream Queen - Showing three pips this year. Suffered when I transplanted it.
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8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoFinding Abiqua Drinking Gourd to be quite photogenic (thanks Jo!). Here are a couple of photos:
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Minuteman still showing the purple but starting to unfurl.
First Frost
Lemontini
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8 years agoI'm not sure you noticed that the Lemontini photo is Barb's? I really like that one too. Glad to see you getting in on the action Barb!
Took this photo today. It's one of my top ten favorite hostas---Earth Angel.
And I'm a sucker for drops!
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8 years agotiddisolo z8 Wales UK
8 years agoReally rough day here in Wales. 50 mile an hour gusts of wind and torrential bursts of rain battering everything. The poor hostas I put back out over the weekend are really taking a pounding. Going to be more than a few shredded leaves by the time this is over.
To console myself I have been looking at the pictures I took over the last few days.
War Paint
Wide Brim
Liberty. Just about leafed out.
Bridal Falls. New last year, rippled edge already!
Neptune. Also new last year. Almost looks like it has a lighter margin in this photo.Don't know whether it will show up on your screens.
Off now to see if the wind has done any damage yet !
Dave
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'Deep Blue Sea' has had only a single eye come up since I got it in 2012, so this is pretty cool...josephines167 z5 ON Canada thanked don_in_coloradojosephines167 z5 ON Canada
8 years agosandyslopes z5 n. UT
8 years agoWheee! continues to look good as it unfurls.
Awakening Angel unfurls with twists and turns.
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