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Hosta Niagara Falls?

7 years ago

I just found a plant info card buried by some hostas I inherited. It says Hosta 'Niagara Falls'.

Unless it died, it should be on the property somewhere. Now the question is, which hosta could it be?

#1

Also, I found a picture from (maybe) 2012. I zoomed in and it's not the greatest quality but I think this is the same hosta that was much bigger then.

But it doesn't seem to have the defined ripples along the edges :\

#2

#3

#4

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mountainy man z8 Ireland

7 years ago

It could have been mislabeled to throw another spanner into the works lol.

Your #5 looks like Honeybells.

My Niagara Falls when "new" last year looked like this.

She has a little bit of rippling or ruffling this year. sorry this pic is a bit blurry.

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Allison
Original Author
7 years ago
Other than those hostas, I have only two other green hostas but they seem like they may be Royal Standards.

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Eleven
7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago
Hostas that are young will have immature leaves that are sometimes very different from the mature version. Also, hostas that have been moved can lose some of the rippled margin the following year. For comparison, here are pics from the Niagara Falls when I got it last fall and then how it looks now. (Sorry, I'm not home to post the actual photos.)

OOPS!! Sorry, earlier I accidentally the DG links from my POV, not from someone else. But here are the pics instead.

2015 fall:

2016 summer:

It had NO rippling on the margin last fall and much less pronounced veins versus now. Of your plants, I think #1 is maybe, #2 is maybe, #3 is maybe, and #4 is not.
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ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
7 years ago
not signing into DG .. hope you post them later ...

per hosta library.. none of them look like NF ... and i dont think your should be considered young

ken

http://www.hostalibrary.org/n/n.html
Allison
Original Author
7 years ago
Yeah, I noticed that too, Ken :\

The other tag I found was Regal Splendor though and none of them look quite like that either.

They would've been planted in about 2012 or so.
While I don't consider them young, they are in an area where they are frequently damaged by deer.

Are Niagara Falls and Regal Splendor known for dying more easily than others? It just seems odd that they would die and the others would remain :\
ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
7 years ago
Are Niagara Falls and Regal Splendor known for dying more easily

==>>> both should be on the easy side of the spectrum .... dying easily is more a big white center thing ....

your putting a lot of faith in the lost tags .. of an unknown gardener ...

ken
Allison
Original Author
7 years ago
Thanks for your pictures, mountainy man!

@Ken: Well, the property is the house I grew up in (with no previous owners) and the gardener is actually my mother xD Let's just say, she's not one to remember where/when/what she planted. It's definitely her style to leave a tag by something she planted.
If the hostas weren't purchased at some point, I can't think of any other reason they would be where I found them. One of them was actually underneath the annoying weedblock cloth stuff that was put down when the pond was first landscaped.

Mislabeling is a possibility though.

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