Think the damage on Komodo Dragon is weather realated not HVX. As far as HVX being transmitted from a plant in a joint bed, if someone is digging in the bed, and cuts the roots of a diseased and healthy plant, the disease can be transmitted, or by somebody weed-whacking, or cutting scapes etc. It does not spread just by touching, it is by sap that the disease is passed on.

I just went through this list the other day (difficult in the format it was in) and I have a question. The revision says 2004 - are there not more names that should be added? If so, does anyone know what they would be?

Hi lsu ; I have only done hosta mail order hosta 2x. Bridgewood in '06 got tc s that came very well packaged in pots & healthy. Blue Angle, Earth Angel, a few others all are BIG, one or two eyed 2ft across now a year later. I ordered from White Oak last spring got bare root divs ,very well packaged & healthy. They included many extras , I think I got at least 6 eyes more than I ordered. These have grown like crazy this year & I am happy to see them catching up w/ the 06 plants already. Both places I would order from again in a heartbeat, although I liked the pricing better & freebies at WO & the website better at BW. I hope to try new sources too, next season as the wish list plants can be found all in one place.~ Dot

One of the trials was done in an East Texas county (Smith) by the A&M extention service. It was multi-year (4 years, I think). Plants were evaluated 4 X per year. The plants were supplied by Tawakoni Plant farm (the farm for Northaven Gardens, a premier nursery in Dallas) and Whitehouse plant farms, a supplier to independent nurseries. (Smith County is 7b and has acid soil, we're 8a and have alkaline soil.) The other plant trials were done by the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Gardens. They don't say how many suppliers were involved in the original trials. However they are doing another set of hosta trials right now with 5 or 6 suppliers. The Arboretum is about 5 miles from my house, so soil and climate are very close. (They maintain huge trial gardens of all kinds of plants for the area.) The recommendation for montana came from Tony Avents' list of hosta for warm climates. I found also that Krossa Regal and Regal Splendor have done well at the Arboretum. I just didn't realize they were large upright plants. They don't seem to be very showy either, though. bkay