Gold/yellow centered small/dwarf hosta: are there any?
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last yearHow small are you looking for? Whirlwind is small-ish and the center changes throughout the season.
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Favorite Gold/Yellow Hostas
Comments (13)Paul, my Alabama Gold did not keep to being yellow, think maybe I put him in too much shade. I was disappointed in mine, but seeing yours gives me faith. My favorites include Fried Bananas, August Moon, Midas Touch, and of course all those fine hosta with gold middles and dark green margins--my favorite look for variegations. Plus, I much prefer the gold middles with a cream or white margin, much better than the dark green w/ white margins. To me, the white/dark green look too much alike. And yikes, GardenCrazy, your Zounds looks wonderful. Hope mine grows up like yours. Three golds here: 2 August Moon, 2 Midas Touch in this tub, with an order of Rich Uncle on the side Then tough-as-nails Dick Ward Faith And Fragrant Bouquet is a green/gold with creamy margins...See MoreLookin' for a gold hosta, ideas?
Comments (5)Sea Fire probably would do well, as well as it's progeny Dawn's Early Light. Then you have St Elmo's Fire and Eye Declare, which are same family. They are bright yellow in spring, and greener as the season goes on. Dave...See MoreDwarf and mini hosta in pots or bowls
Comments (3)I went and got my wide bowl pot all ready and ran out to pick up some minis. Didn't have any at the nursery and I came home with a biggie in a 5 gallon pot and a concrete angel. lol. Then I was going to repot the biggie into a larger pot, but it was so much work getting it out of the 5 g. pot I said "no way - I'll plant it". Then when it took me 3 hours to dig the hole in the hard, dry dirt with a post-hole digger, for which it took me 2 days to recover: well here we go with minis in a pot gardens again. Now you'uns got my juices flowing again. A month ago I was at a local that had several mouse ears and some others. Might just go out and peak. Oh well, I get my ss check in a week so maybe my budget won't suffer so badly. Shame on you people for throwing temptations at me like this. lol Les...See MoreBlack and Gold - With Hostas Included
Comments (14)Thank yous to all! I've been spending time off and on all day researching hostas ... Thank you, Thisismelissa! We got the blizzard today, our slightly toned-down Illinois version, but it's kept the world inside and church was canceled. So I went to the Hosta Library site. I can't see pics, so have to glean what I can from verbal descriptions. When I'm really hot on a particular plant, I'll try to look it up in multiple places. Some catalogs just don't really know what they're talking about. The written descriptions at the HL sound a little like gibberish with my voice synthesized computer, but I can get some idea about size, color, form, rugosity, etc. Many of you guys collect 100's of hostas. Me, I love them in a little different way, I suppose. Even my relatively tiny collection gives some evidence of the variation in hostas, but each is, nonetheless, clearly a hosta. A small hosta was the first plant I id'ed with just a few clues. A previous owner had 3 or 4 varieties -- one small heart shaped guy that was spreading happily all over a front bed, a white edged small to med, and the fragrant ones. I couldn't see leaf colors, but could tell that these plants that shot up flowers on stick-like stems were all cousins. I remember discovering an amateur breeder in my church at the time. He told me about "plantaginea", taught me the term "scapes", and took me on a tour of his drip-irrigated hosta collection. So I felt minis up to the giants ... Fun! But composing a bed is very hard for me . Because I love hostas, I will always use them, but I've found out the hard way that I need the ones I choose to be distinct in form and/or size. Otherwise ... well? So, I guess I was asking both about the color combination ... which I've played with before. and I'm trying to figure out a showy, sun-tolerant specimen hosta. Since I don't currently have any "large" hostas I guess I thought that might be an obvious distinction. Vase or upright form would be distinct, too, as I gave my gorgeous 'Krossa Regal' to a special friend who admired it. It was a 3 year old in a rather large pot ... heavy sucker and happy friend. Melissa- Guacamole will definitely stay put. Plantaginea may need to be shifted, but he got reduced last year, so isn't quite the monster he'd been. I mean some of him got moved to another place that I wanted solid green ... Love him though ... He's been divided before and comes back gangbusters. I think of him as northern gardenia ... Edie- That's been a want list plant for several years. Vetivert8-Yep, the Dahlia's have a number of dark-leaved beauties. Got to go to bed ... I've got 'Golden Sculpture' in my head, but, man, that would be one honking big thing some day. Should I live dangerously? Hmmm ......See Morenewhostalady Z6 ON, Canada
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lindalana 5b Chicago
last yearlast modified: last yearSome of them are not easy, like Popcorn and Peppermint Ice.
I have Happy accident and Enchanted Mist which seems to be happy campers.
Allegheny fog grows well but creates wider clump.
High society can be fussy too.
Mary Marie Ann was a bit fussy and lost during transport and Eleanor Lachman seemed unhappy but she did not have good location so deserves another try.
Then we have Timeless beauty, White bikini, which likely have more white than yellow middle.
Lakeside Banana bay, good grower but likely more than small.
Faithful heart is a good grower for me.
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peren.all Zone 5a Ontario Canada
last yearI really like all of these suggestions. I am rather partial to Dinner Mint.
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Dinky DonnaPeren., thank you for posting! I knew it was somewhere and was very familiar, I found my dinner mint.
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