Part II

Lakeside Ripples - new last fall

Lakeside Spellbinder - in June, looked a little ruff later in the season

Lakeside Stormwatch - also seams it needs fertilizer

Part III

Lakeside Surf Rider - new last spring

Lakeside Tee Ki

Lakeside Zinger - this is it's second season, so far not doing too much

Please overlook the slug holes!

Lakeside Black Satin

Lakeside Cha Cha

Lakeside Cupcake

Lakeside Dragonfly

Lakeside Kleidochrome

Lakeside Lollipop

Lakeside Prophecy

Lakeside Prophecy Fullfilled

Lakeside Shoremaster

Lakeside Ringmaster

Lakeside Little Tuft .

I Love this little guy. Fast grower and the center is to die for. I have it at the edge of my front garden and Neighbours stop and always comment on how it compliments the big ones. LOL They stopped calling them the leafie plants.

Lakeside Paisley Print

My Tag was moved on me last spring .My husband had been raking and put it where there was not tag. So as the pips were coming out I was so excited. I could not believe how big it had gotten. To my surprise, I was heart broken to see Ann Kalpa looking so tiny. LOL Moral of the story.......he tried.

Paula I loved the cat at the microscope.......guess what I do for my Hosta $$$$.

Loving the Lakesides so far and I can only say I want more!!!

EnJoy and happy Sunday

Beth, do your Lakesides struggle a bit like mine. In general, my LS's don't seem very vigorous here, unless they would just prefer more sun than I'm giving them.

So I own three Lakesides. Lakeside looking glass is new and I have no picture.

My favorite, Lakeside Paisley Print, has sunk. I dug it up this year and replanted it. It may also have some vole damage. I hope it will come up more symmetrically next year.

Here is Lakeside why-do-I-still-have-it. I mean Lakeside Cup Cake. It is in a premium spot (its third) and still looks like cr@p by July. I have a hard time letting a hosta go.

Lol Paula!

So many great LS's. I have a bunch that I did not get pics of but I need all the rest, especially Prophecy Fulfilled, Cindy Cee and Cha Cha. My Paisley Print dwindled away in it's pot before I got it planted.

Most Lakesides do well in my garden, I guess they just like the south. My native soil is very acid, so an acid fertilizer might help.

In spite of all my rah-rah about how Lakesides do so well for me, I didn’t even see LS Paisley Print last year. It dwindled every year and I guess it’s gone now.

Lakeside Lollipop is so cute! I want one!

LS Storm Watch

Paula..I wish my childhood bangs looked as nice as the cat's..mine were crooked!..

no Lakesides for me..I'll share my bluebirds that came by this morning..they were adorable..don't miss the one at the bottom of the picture..

Paula, the cat jokes always crack me up and I am sure I had bangs like that when I was a kid too!

Saija, every day you are the first one to post......you must be up early, because as far as I can tell, Paula is posting about 5 a.m. I am the late sleeper of this group. I love your Little Tuft and Prophecy Fufilled unfurling and open is gorgeous

stevePA your Cindy Lee is huge and perfect

beth, love the color of your Cha Cha and your Ripples and Surfrider look like they will be Hugh and rise above many other hostas

sunnywood, your slug holes are nothing compared to mine, haha. I love the dark color on Lollipop and that Shoremaster is to die for. Love the leaf stripes.

shadow, I have Paisley Print, new last fall, but it looks so different when young. Love how it will look when grows up

beverly, your Paisley Print is also lovely and I am wondering if the damage on Cupcake is sun burn?

peren.all, I just love that little Dot Com! I may have to look for that one. And your garden is so lovely and full with other flowers and plants, I wish I had the sun for a yard like that....sigh

zkathy, I do so love the colors of Banana Bay and Party Dress and your Dragonfly is such a beauty as well. So perfect.

I only have one LS and it is Paisley Print bought from a hosta vendor, NH I think. It has a long way to go.

This is when first planted.

This is a few weeks later in September

Steve.....I think I need Lakeside Cindy Cee....yours is a beauty.

Always enjoy the Lakesides!

Lakeside Paisley Print

Lakeside Lollipop

Lakeside Shore Master

Lakeside Black Mama.....needs new location. Victory has grown over it!

Lakeside Color Blue....work in progress, but promising. Good color. Another that will get a spring move.

Lakeside Cupcake ....hasn't done much so far.

Lakeside Hoola Hoop

Lakeside Dragonfly on right....Ghost Spirit on left.

Lakeside Kaleidoscope

Lakeside Meter Maid

Lakeside Midnight Miss

Lakeside Neat Petite

Djacob: No I'm not early, I'm just in different continent, LOL. I am from Finland and usually I post my fotos after work.

There are so many beautiful Lakesides. I think I must try again Lakeside Paisley Print, had one but it died :(

Saija

Karin, Mae, mbug and Nicholsworth, we were all posting at the same time!

Karin, always love your hosta photos! Today I am drawn to Breaking News and Party Dress. I constantly find myself attracted to the yellow/light green/chartreuse colors.

mae, your Storm Watch has really nice leaf ruffling and color.

nicholsworth, you can post your lovely birds anytime as far as I am concerned. Love seeing Bluebirds!

Mbug, wow! You have so many! Your Paisley Print looks so different from others, it is still lovely....just a reminder how different hostas can look from garden to garden. Shoremaster is a stunner, the colors so rich. I see Hula Hoop sent up a new pip, so cute. But of all your LS, I must say I absolutely looove the Color Blue! This may be my favorite so far. I hope it’s not difficult to find as I would really like one. What kind of light is yours in?

djacobz,,,,,Thank you!.....The center variegation of my LSPP is not as pronounced as many others I've seen. Hope age will bring it out more, but don't know if that happens. Still a beauty in the garden.

LSColor Blue gets lots of morning and early afternoon sun...maybe too much. A priority in the spring is to find the right spot for it.

Lol, paula, I am definitely a real gardener.

Only a couple Lakesides to show this year....

Lakeside Baby Face

Lakeside Elfin Fire (mini)

There are so many beautiful Lakesides! I wasn't lucky with my LS Paisley Print, it died after 3 years of growing backwards...maybe I give it another try.

I will have to look for Lakeside Colour Blue...

Another problem Lakeside...

Karin, I agree about the LS Colour Blue. It’s stunning. I love your little Elfin Fire. I wish I could grow hostas in pots. I don’t think I could do the over wintering thing... too much work where I live in cold, cold Wisconsin... I do also like that Khum Kaw....awesome! What a name!

Lakeside Dragonfly:

Lakeside Little Tuft:

Mae, I have admired everyone’s Dragonfly and Little Tuft and yours are no different. But your Dragonfly has such soft coloring and I do like that a lot.

djocobz, yes, the damage is sun damage but it gets only a very brief amount of direct sun in the morning. Any other hosta would love to have this location. I have had it in dappled shade all day but it won't grow and still had that problem:( In this location, at least, it gained some size. Maybe I should grow it to full size, a couple more years, and then move it into the dark where I can use one of those fancy lights they use in art museums, the ones that don't cause any light damage, to highlight it. lol. Well anyways, I need to face the fact that its not tough enough for my garden.

Most Lakesides grow slow for me and I have a few new ones, and they're not always treated very well, so not many looking great last year. Lakeside Cup Cake was an easy cull for me. It looked ugly, so I pulled it out, put it in a pot over the winter, started to rot, the dogs liked the smell and pulled it out of the pot where it lay outside for a while. If only they had left it on the driveway, it might have survived.

Lakeside Old Smokey looked fantastic until the Maple tree roots invaded.

Mbug did a great job capturing the color on that L. Color Blue, but I bet it looks even better in real life. I love the color on mine, but didn't get any pics last year as it got moved and is still small. The way the blue is reflected onto other leaves make it seem to glow. (From 2018)

The ones that do well for me include L. Banana Bay (planted in 2018)

L. Dragonfly was moved a couple times and never even noticed (planted and replanted in 2018) - also in my pic of June (J's)

Lakeside Full Tide - bought 3 eyes split from a gallon pot (literally just cut in half) and planted in 2018. Bounced right back.

Hopefully, next year, I'll have more to show.

Steveduggins, all of yours look really healthy and good. Sorry about Cupcake. Yes, maybe if the dogs had left it on the driveway......you need to teach them that! :-)

I am in love with LS Color Blue. I am already looking around to purchase it. I think I already have a good spot for it. Really like Banana Bay, talk about glowing—-wow! Is it in full shade?And last but not least, that Full Tide.....I think that would cover half of my front yard! That is a big one, and is it in a pot.......?

I am having trouble posting. I'll try again.

Wonderful Lakesides on this thread!

My mom cut my hair too, but not as well as cat's mom---mine's crooked and soooo short----what was she thinking!!!! LOL

This is what a small Lakeside Down Sized looks like

Lakeside Prophecy Fulfilled

Lakeside Paisley Print

Lakeside Baby Face

Lakeside Banana Bay

Lakeside Breaking News

Dave

Lakeside Cindy Cee

Lakeside Cupcake

Lakeside Doodad

Dave

Lakeside Dragonfly

Lakeside Grandee

Lakeside Kaleidoscope

Dave

Lakeside Fancy Pants

Lakeside Doodad

Dave

Lakeside Miss Muffet

Lakeside Old Smokey

Dave

Lakeside Paisley Print. Mine too struggles.

Lakeside Prophecy Fulfilled

Dave

Lakeside Ripples

Lakeside Shore Master

Dave

Lakeside Spellbinder

Lakeside Zinger

Dave

mbug, I love Lakeside Hoola Hoop. I have nonbuyers remorse. I saw it years ago but thought I would buy it later and now it is hard to come by.

Nonbuyers remorse, I know that feeling. Especially after seeing those L. Cindy Cees.

Honestly, L. Cup Cake looked ratty enough I didn't mind losing it.

(And that's when it looked good).

L. Old Smokey after being invaded by Maple tree roots.

and the year before

The leaves were less than 1/2 the size and even shorter than that.

The L. Full Tide is planted in a spin out bag under some maple trees.

newhostalady..so cute!..I can't believe our mothers couldn't cut our bangs better than this Lol..I think my mom wanted to make each trim last as long as possible..she didn't worry about how I looked at first..haha

I know about nonbuyer's remorse too. For me, I didn't take the opportunity to purchase Luna Moth, unfortunately.

Steve Duggins, I can empathize---I have experienced the dreaded maple tree roots too. The tree roots can be so aggressive.

You know what I figured out nicholsworth---I think it was the "style" in the 1950's to have short bangs. Look at a photo of these girls taken in the 50's.

Lakeside Surf Rider

Lakeside Symphony

Lakeside Breaking News

Lakeside Prophecy

newhostalady..I bet you're right..now that I think about it my mother and her sisters had very short bangs in their graduation pics..and unlike a little girl I would think they decided how to cut their own hair..

Lakeside Meadow Ice

Lakeside Full Tide

Lakeside AlexAndra

Tiddisolo, holy smokes!! I counted 19—-are There more?? my favorites out of those 19 are , Banana Bay,Cupcake, Old Smokey, Shoremaster (amazing) and Spellbinder. Such an amazing collection!!

steveduggins, ah....Cupcake is such a cutie, maybe throw it on the driveway and replant it so it knows whose boss? Your Full Tide is amazing!

lindaliana, LS Prophecy.....the amount of rugosity in those leaves is so intenose. Breaking News has such nice color and ruffling. And that AlexAndra has a wonderful glowing color.

djacobz, they are a bit of a collecting project.

As of today 43.

The alphabet always give me others to look for and there are lots of beauties here this year.

I'm hoping to add to that number but so few are available to me in the UK.

A fun project all the same.

Dave

I left out one of my favorite LS’s: Surf Runner. The first pic is this season, the second to show forms from 2018.

nhl and nw, being the oldest of three sisters I got the bang treatment , but also watched it being inflicted upon the younger ones. Mothers were told to put a piece of tape over the bangs and use it as a guide for cutting. I watched my mom cut above the tape. Below the tape was the right way to do it, but that didn’t occur to her and we have an Easter picture of us all in homemade dresses with home done haircuts that look just like that.

kathy, I have never heard of the tape method. I still cut my adult daughter's bangs. Maybe I should try it! LOL

Lakeside scamp, fuzzy pic, but am practicing uploading from my account. I still have to figure out finer details.

Adding up to prior conversation on Lakesides, I have many and my soil rus around pH of 7.0. Lakesides do well here thus I collect them and love them the most.

My next step is upload several pics to one post.

DJ, I highly recommend LS Prophecy to any garden. Yes it is green but shape and rugose texture are so attractive, it is easily one of favorites in the family. This one is next to Simply Sharon.

zkathy, nice LS Surf Rider, it reminds me of 'Komodo Dragon'. Judging by the Library pics, though, it looks like LS SR is more dimpled at maturity, and possibly larger than KD.

lindalana, hopefully you will bless us with many Lakeside photos in next years alphabet, and show us what they should really look like.

zkathy..we had tape too!..I'm not sure if my mother couldn't tape straight..or if she couldn't cut straight..I'm also the oldest of 3 sisters..Surf Rider is a beauty..

newhostalady..unless your daughter's bangs look worse than the posted pics I wouldn't try the tape..Lol

Nice hostas Linda. The scamp is so cute. Prophecy is one I will add at some point

zkathy thanks for the words of advice on Lakesides.

Mae your LS Storm Watch is beautiful, I hope mine ends up looking like yours.

nicholsworth, so nice to see Bluebirds in January. They are long gone from our area.

mbug your LS Paisley Print is picture perfect. It looks like it is in it's happy spot

sandyslopes and Karin love the subtle streaking in your LS Elfin Fire.

Steve your LS Full Tide looks like it will be a beauty soon!

newhostalady, that is also how my bangs looked. My Mom would cut them and recut them and recut them in the end they were still crooked.

Love all the pictures of Lakeside Prophecy Fulfilled it has a little bit of everything.