The first and the last picture seem to show 'Blue Angel', have pointy leaves. The last one has tall scapes. BA supposedly grows up to 30 inch height and 48 inch scapes,

The second picture possibly is an 'Elegans' though leaves are somewhat floppy, but leaves are round. I think your picture seems to show a scape at the height of leaves, as 'Elegans' would have it. Please compare pictures in the Hosta Library side by side with your pictures. You also can go one step further and count veins.

Jon

Not to confuse anyone ,but how dose Blue Mammoth fit into this discussion?

Looks to be a more upright, bluer version of Elegans, Sunny.

Hmmmm, the first and second picture hostas I bought together and planted together, and neither produce seed pods. The third picture hosta I bought last year and this one produces lots of seed pods. Could it be that its leaves are narrow because it's much younger than other ones? We were just having a discussion in Blue Angel seed pods thread. It was said that Blue Angel is a reluctant seed pod setter while Elegans produces readily.

Jon, your Elegans is a beauty!

I have had that Elegans for a long time. I have two divisions from it in the back and have given neighbors across the street and next door divisions from it and they all have prolific flowers and fertile seeds. Of course dividing would be different than growing from a tissue culture propagation so maybe it just needs time. It seems to me it has always had flowers though. I can remember cutting them off quickly all the time as someone told me this would allow the plant to use it's energy to build itself up and not 'waste' energy on flowers and seeds. This most likely is true, but I now enjoy the flowers and the wild hosta seedlings.

Jon

So I found two other hostas I have that I forgot about, and after looking at them now I can tell that these are Elegans, and I'm pretty sure that the other ones are Blue Angels. Yikes, so I have 7 Blue Angels and 2 Elegans! Nice! haha I had the tags from both but I didn't mark them when I planted them.

The leaves are really wide on these and quite different from Blue Angels. Thank you guys!!

Jon. If a plant has lots of seen pods carried well above the leaves, is that enough to identify it as ELEGANS. The plant that I put up has only a few seed pod twice as long as the " ELEGANS" and below the leaves. Can they both be ELEGANS ?

My Elegans -

Sunny, please look at DD's Elegans. I wouldn't say that the flowers are 'well above the leaves'. They start slow and some of them struggle to get above the 'Leaf Line' which is a term I just invented. Blue Angel flowers tower far higher.

Jon

Those are so nice, peren.all! Beautiful color! I'm definitely going to have to move some around when they get that big! Elegans doesn't have much room in that corner so I'm going to move them in the spring.

Oh Boy! It's only Oct. 8... and I can hardly wait for spring! I've got to have an Elegans!

All of these pictures are lovely....

Peren - that border really looks nice!

Nice tapestry you've woven there, peren. Thanks.

tj

Thanks so much mk, windy and tsuga.

sunnywood Do you have a pic of the plant you posted in flower?

The flowers of Blue Mammoth just reach the top of the mound and would produce many seedpods. The flowers buds would be lavender then open to nearly white with a lavender midrib.

The leaves would be 16 x 12 and have a thick underside bloom.