Yes, these are just little guys, I am curious to see how well I can grow them. They seem to be in some kind of coir mix and need to be repotted into a grittier mix, but I am thinking I should wait till spring for that.. Thanks for the ID, David! Good to hear from you J, how's life on the west coast? Happy growing, everyone! Breton

I am trying to understand why you want to view garden pictures on a tiny phone screen, when I can see it much larger on my PC. How can you appreciate nature on a tiny screen? I have a fast DELL PC and RoadRunner Broadband, no problems here. We happily got rid of cellphone plans many years ago, now have Tracphones only in our cars for emergencies. (In my past work life I was in high speed controls). Bernd

They assured me they would pull & check all fireworks hostas. That's good to hear, BUT, that is only a visual check. You did the right thing however and actually tested. And the fact the tests were negative is very encouraging. The strips from what I understand, test for the presence of the virus. And just because it has not yet manifested itself yet visually, does not mean the plant is not infected. Of course the plant can be infected prior to showing deformity and discoloration, those are visual indications of a fairly strong infestation, in the early stages it will not show anything. Like you, I would like to think they would not consciously give you yet more infected plants, but, as said above, they only did a visual inspection, which in and of itself is no guarantee. IMHO they should have used the same test you ended up using. When it comes to dealing with batches of any given Hosta variety coming from the same TC lab in the same shipment a good many nurseries would prefer to err on the side of caution and consider the entire batch to be suspect and depending on their relationship with the lab and their terms of business would either destroy the whole batch or return the whole batch. Since they have not said one way or the other as to whether or not all these Fireworks are likely to be from the same batch, my suggestion is to keep them in relative isolation for the next couple of years or so just to be on the safe side. As said, it's encouraging the first tests came back negative but as you said yourself, AGDIA does warn about false indications and it would be wise for you to test them again next year. Good luck with them and may they eventually prove to be clean for you. Pieter

Donna, we do get lots of rain at the moment (which is good) and we had sun during the winter here in the north of Germany but no snow. It was rather a very long fall than a winter... This is very good news you're telling about Mystica and a nice cross you choose! I have buds on both and maybe I'll try the same cross :-)) Fred, two years ago we all got #1807 and/or #1810 instead of the #1820 we ordered. They are both dark purple with white stripes and there was a discussion about the difference in the big Sonatini thread:https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/4498261/sonatinis-2017#n=263. #1820 has small dots. Mine is about to open, I'll post a picture of it soon. I don't know when #1875 was offered but I would have ordered it :-))) Anja