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Hosta A 2022 .............

ilovetogrow z9 Jax Florida

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Welcome back. Darn it is cold. You will laugh but it is 29 degrees here. It is OK as I do not have to go to work anymore. So, let's play Hosta Alphabet!

for those of you with deer problems, you now know why.

I often lock my son outside, by accident. The colder it is the harder he knocks on that door. Have a great day everyone.

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peren.all Zone 5a Ontario Canada

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Yes Paula very cold for you, almost balmy for some of us. Thanks for the chuckles, especially Pooh and his bacon sandwich! Beautiful start everyone!

Alex Summers on it's 2nd year. I had slug damage for the first time. Really weird considering how hot & dry it was.

American Hero

Appletini

August Moon with some sporting. I redid the area around it.

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Beth - Michigan 6A
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Here are my A's

Abba Dabba Do

Abiqua Drinking Gourd

Abiqua Moonbeam

Alakazaam

Allegan Fog

American Halo
Beth - Michigan 6A
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Part 2

American Sweetheart

Ann Kulpa
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Beth - Michigan 6A
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Brad KY 6b
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This is also coming on the dayliy forum. I think you made a mistake. Hosta's are nice, but not really interested here. Don't know one from another. Please fix the post.
djacob Z6a SE WI
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Gary, your Alliteration is beautiful ! Never seen that one before…..
Hosta_maker, I am loving that A Spring Thing! I am a sucker for those blushers.
Sherry, I did not know there was an August Frost. Yours looks perfect!
Peren, the August Moon and area around it really looks good. Hard work pays off!
Erin, Afterglow is really thriving in your garden!
Beth, so many terrific ones! Never seen an August Moon the size of yours, and also your Autumn Frost has the widest white margins I’ve seen! Awesome.

debra
djacob Z6a SE WI
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Brad, someone from the daylily forum suggested we include you folks. The idea is that you would post your daylilies beginning with each letter. The letters change every other day and are always preceded by jokes. I don’t know anything about daylilies but would love to see the ones you have.

debra
djacob Z6a SE WI
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Ok folks, here are my A’s: New pic of Amalia as the previous pic was really Waverunner. I just caught the error.

debra
djacob Z6a SE WI
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Houzz giving me trouble with accessing my photos so I am back using the forum link.

More As:

debra
djacob Z6a SE WI
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Couple more:

Second pic later in the year.

debra
Mosswood
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I have two 'A' hosta, but did take new pictures this year!

'Abuiqua Drinking Gourd' still fighting off the roots.

H. 'Andrew' still fighting off those dang rabbits... this one has lots of promise, but has been glacially slow.
sherrygirl zone5 N il
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Daylily peep here! I do the hosta alphabet too! if any of you hosta peeps have the time the daylily alphabet starts on Jan. 2

Sherry
hosta_maker
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Haha blame ken, he is trying to start a virtual street fight between the dayliliy and hosta people. maybe at sunrise in the houzz parking lot.

haha
nicholsworth Z6 Indianapolis
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nice A’s everyone 🙂..my 3 A’s are mentioned with better pics than I can post Lol..I have 3 areas with multiples of August Moon and not one nice pic!..

there’s a group of August Moon to the right of the Viburnum trunk near the center of the right edge of this photo Lol..this is like where’s Waldo for hosta..

Autumn Frost bottom right before I put it in a teal pot..

Abiqua Drinking Gourd..the cupped leaves in the center..

I have a new phone..my pics transferred but not in albums 🙁..I’m organizing and deleting..lots of pics were fuzzy so I deleted them thinking that with my new phone I can replace them this summer..

I don’t have perfect shots of individual hosta for the alphabet but any pic is better than none right? Lol..

a better look at Abiqua Drinking Gourd..
djacob Z6a SE WI
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Mosswood, thar Andrew is just beautiful!

Nicholsworth, thanks for sharing…..you are right, any pic better than none!
debra
djacob Z6a SE WI
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Found one more…. I really had to search for it!

debra
nicholsworth Z6 Indianapolis
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thanks debra 🙂..do you find yourself cleaning debris out of Abiqua Drinking Gourd?..I do..
djacob Z6a SE WI
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Nicholworth, I do have to clean off many of the large leafed hostas in the front where my maple and the city’s locust tree are. They drop a variety of ”stuff” especially in spring.

debra
nicholsworth Z6 Indianapolis
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debra..I can relate..
lindalana 5b Chicago
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Wow, you guys are starting strong! Please keep going as I use it as search reference all the time.

Hoping to do much better next year. Here is Amalia, young one and more mature.
ilovetogrow z9 Jax Florida thanked lindalana 5b Chicago
peren.all Zone 5a Ontario Canada
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Sorry for all the critter troubles erin. The ones they did not get look great.

Very nice Beth! You are clearly giving them everything they want.

Beautiful Debra! Astral Bliss is a real standout.

Mosswood that is one terrific Andrew.

Ann absolutely, any pic is better than none. Your property is lovely and I enjoyed playing Where's Waldo for August Moon lol.

lindalana Amalia is a beauty.
gardenchick2010
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ilovetogrow: Happy to see you're doing this again this year. My pics will be the same hostas as last year, as I didn't get any new ones in 2022. Plan to do better in 2023. LOL

sherrygirl: thanks for letting us know about the Day Lily alphabet. Most of my day lilies are unfortunately NOID's, but I do know the names for some of them, so will join in when I can.

AUTUMN FROST
djacob Z6a SE WI
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Lindaliana, I think my Amalia does not look like yours and I believe I mixed up my Amalia with Waverunner as they are close to each other in the garden. I am surprised no one caught that……lol lol lol

I am going to change the post above to correct the error.

debra
sherrygirl zone5 N il
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Gardenchick, glad to see you will stop by the daylily alphabet at times. The focus will be on good performers.

BTW, Ken got it right, the more the merrier!

Sherry
gardenchick2010
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sherrygirl : Looking through my pics, I only have 10 named Day Lilies, so my appearances will be limited, and possibly the ones I post won't be considered good performers by other members. But I would still like to participate, if possible, as I love all my day lilies.
sherrygirl zone5 N il
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Please check in! The hope is to find good performers if you have room for another daylily. No need to post blooms if you dont want to….ask questions instead. There are quite a few hybridizers with lots of experience ready to help!

I am looking forward to B hosta posts ; )

Sherry
peren.all Zone 5a Ontario Canada
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gardenchick yes please join in the Daylily alphabet, I do but have relatively little to offer. You will be impressed with the beauty and sheer number most have.
indianagardengirl
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Antioch, an oldie but a goodie
old_dirt 6a
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A day late here but that's par for the course. Great start and thank you Pauline!

Allan P. McConnell

American Sweetheart

Ann Kulpa
old_dirt 6a
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A couple more

August Moon

Autumn Frost - slowly disappearing from tree root competition.
Shadow -4A-NB Canada
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Alakazaam

August Moon

Autumm Frost

Atlantis

Alex Summer

Abiqua Moonbeam

American Halo
rosaprimula
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I had no idea there were so many varieties of hosta.

I actually have a single specimen (with no name apart from hosta). Generally ignored by me since within a week of its emergence, it invariably looks moth-eaten and undistinguished. I can barely believe all these pics of entirely intact leafage. How can this be? I managed to keep mine relatively intact for a couple of months,by using UK pennies as a mulch...but a heavy hailstorm soon put paid to the unblemished foliage. Surely there are slugs, snails, hailstones and wayward footballs in the US?
indianagardengirl
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Well, most don’t post photos of the ratty ones, like this August Moon…
rosaprimula
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Yeah, but I can't even manage to keep a single plant looking pristine...never mind dozens of them, IGG. O, and your 'ratty' August Moon looks a million times tidier than my sad and sorry hosta.

Wish we still called them funkias though.
djacob Z6a SE WI
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Rosaprimula, the secret to keeping hostas looking good is to buy the “slug resistant” ones. There’s a list of them in the HL under the listing Rawson’s Lists, middle column,second down. Also, I do a ammonia or vinegar drench twice a year. A ratio of 1 part vinegar or ammonia to 10 parts water. You pour this over the pips as they come up in spring to kill any slugs/eggs already there and then in the fall to kill eggs laid to hatch next spring. This makes a HUGH difference! I have lots and lots of hostas and with one person helping it takes about 30 minutes. Maybe that will encourage you to buy some other hostas ===> but I warn you, it’s addictive!

debra
peren.all Zone 5a Ontario Canada
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rosaprimula it looks like you will have to come over to the Hosta Forum to keep enjoying the diversity. It seems like it has been deleted from the Perennial & Daylily forums. We are doing the B's now. We have a NO ID category after the alphabet is done and we will be able to tell you the name of yours. Better yet you can start a new post to get an ID and join in the fun.
newhostalady Z6 ON, Canada
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Great to see everyone's A's. I will contribute what I have. Unfortunately, I usually organize my pictures during the winter season. So many of my photos are not filed away until the new year.

Atlantis

Autumn Frost

My Amalia is the tiniest thing! I envy those of you who are growing it well. I have 4 Abiqua Drinking Gourds, but have found no picture yet. That usually means it didn't do that well last season. I'll have to look into that!

Rosaprimula, there are some hosta that just attract slugs and pests like a magnet. For me, one hosta like that is Lemon Lime. Every time I checked for slugs, there they were! My plan is to move it to a pot. Why not try a thicker leaved hosta (like Debra suggested)? You might just fall in love with hosta!
sweet_betsy No AL Z7
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Ann Kulpa

Abiqua Drinking Gourd
ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
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is brad KY really in charge of the daylily forum... or is he just a humorless old coot???

i can hear him now.. get off my lawn .. and take your hosta with you ..

lol

ken

ps: actually.. collectors and collectors.. and putting roses aside.. the collector nuts out here are.. in no particular order.. hosta.. daylily and roses ... and then other things.. ive been on a couple national hosta tours.. and where hosta peeps dont have shade.. they grow daylily.. and many struggle NOT to start another collection ...
rosaprimula
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Yeah, I have been on the collector train... a propensity for gigantic briar roses acts as something of a limiting factor. Haven't bought one for 6 years now...but there's always something twitching on my plant radar - scented pelargoniums, auriculas, salvias etc.etc.

I had one of those glaucous-leaved, t tardianum types...and I also had one which supposedly had the best white flowers (names escape me of both) plus have definitely had a few real common ones over the years but all vanished in holey ignominy, even the so-called snail proof ones. But hey, I may rescue the sad one at the allotment and have another go-round under the ceonothus at home (there will be spaces since I am removing a failed paeony).
sherrygirl zone5 N il
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Ken, Brad is not in charge of the daylily alphabet, I am for the time being. I don’t know why he got his undies in a bundle………. that’s unlike him. Yep, he is old like me : )

Sherry
djacob Z6a SE WI
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Sweetbetsy, your Ann Kulpa looks great and so does the 2nd one, but what is the name of that blue.

debra
sweet_betsy No AL Z7
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Sorry, that is Abiqua Drinking Gourd, one of my very first hostas.
nicholsworth Z6 Indianapolis
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just found this Abiqua Drinking Gourd photo and decided to post it..
djacob Z6a SE WI
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Awesome!!
debra
ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
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you guys in daylily want some of my tree posts??... lol ...

well sherry.. if you stand by him.. he's my new best friend ... lol ..

ken
mbug_gw
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Late to the party this year.....a few A's

Alligator Shoes 6-29-22

Aquamarine 2 5-12-22

Atlantis 5-16-22

American Icon 5-15-22

Autumn Frost 5-12-22
peren.all Zone 5a Ontario Canada
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mbug so happy you are back. Gorgeous pics as always. Aquamarine & American icon are particular standouts for me.
mbug_gw
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Thanks peren!!
steve duggins(Z6a) - Central Ohio
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Is the party over yet? Or can I still join? Here's some I haven't seen here yet or already forgot I saw.

Alligator Alley grew so well I had to move it a couple years ago. Starting to bounce back.

Angel Falls early in the season, - Slow but steady after moving into a bit more light.

Appletini and Apple Candy (and Toy Soldier)

Awakening Angel

Ayesha
nicholsworth Z6 Indianapolis
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Hi Steve..nice to see you and your hosta!!!..

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