They are superb!!..You did good..Jeanne

We've sprouted Blue Angel but don't have records of how fast or slow it was. It has a heckofa progeny list! Journey's End is another story. I'll plant some here and see how it goes. Now this year's batch has a winner for slowest to sprout: Hosta 'Journey of the Nile' at well over a month, but man-o-man are they coming on strong now! hh

"On Stage is often referenced as a sport of Montana Aureomarginata, but that isn't possible." Chris All this reasoning assumes that H.'On Stage' is a montana and I do not believe it is for reasons I won't go into, now if what I "THINK" I know isnÂt so then there is a great deal more speculation surrounding H.ÂOn Stage that isnÂt so. BIG BUTT, your reasons that H.ÂMontana Aureomarginata and H.ÂOn Stage probably are not related or the relationship is so far apart as to no longer matter and I canÂt see how anyone could disagree with your conclusions. H.ÂOn Stage is a hybrid so what are the genes and how many are at play to finally get to the final plant called On Stage. Ron Livingston told me he made 5,000 crosses last year, now go back all the years he has made crosses and add in all the hybridizers like Brian Skaggs, etc have made and multiply those numbers and tell me a new "hybrid" is HÂÂmontana or H.Âdensa or H.Âelata and there are just to many numbers to draw a narrow definition. Do the math of 100 crosses X 100 crosses X 100 crosses and one starts to see the possibilities, much less 5000X5000 etc. Here is a Don R plant H.ÂRhino Hide now trace it back to a specie and it is surely tetraploid so weÂve made a genetic leap, if there is or ever was Montana blood it no longer matters.

WOW, heck of a family tree. Check this out! Progeny: 'A Big Splash' selfed 'A Many-splendored Thing' = PP x 'hypoleuca' 'Alice Blue Gown' hybrid 'Alligator Shoes' = PP x 'montana' 'Band of Gold' = PP x 'hypoleuca' 'Bashful Polly' hybrid 'Benedict Arnold' hybrid 'Big and Blue' = PP x 'Blue Seer' 'Big Pizza Pie' = PP x 'Maekawa' 'Blast Off' = 'Mikado' x PP 'Blue Canopy' = PP x '(x 'Dorothy Benedict')' 'Blue Form' sport/gg 'Blues in the Night' selfed 'Brilliance' hybrid 'Celestial' = PP x 'hypoleuca' 'Chairman of the Board' = PP x 'Elatior' 'Cinderella' selfed 'Clyde's Birthday' hybrid 'Dandy Randy' selfed 'Dazzling' = PP x 'Maekawa' 'Eggs Benedict' = PP x 'Incredible Hunk' 'Final Answer' = PP x 'hypoleuca' 'George W.' = PP x 'Incredible Hunk' 'Gil Jones' selfed 'Go Dorothy' hybrid 'Gold Dorothy of Richland' hybrid 'Grand Maw JoAnn' hybrid 'Grandchild' hybrid 'Heavenly Beginnings' = PP x 'Elatior' 'Herb Benedict' = PP x 'Tokudama Aureonebulosa' 'Hideko Gowen' selfed 'Hot Flash' selfed 'Huron Blue' hybrid 'In Sook' = PP x 'montana' 'Janet's Joy' sport/gg 'Jim Wilkins' selfed 'Lickity Split' = PP x 'pycnophylla' 'Lovely to Behold' = PP x '(x 'Dorothy Benedict')' 'Lover's Leap' = PP x 'Nooner' 'Lucky Fifty' sport/o 'MacBenedict' hybrid 'Mean Mama' sport/yg 'Miss Tokyo' = PP x 'montana 'Aureomarginata'' 'Misty Mary Ann' = PP x '(x 'Dorothy Benedict')' 'My Friend Nancy' = PP x 'montana 'Chirifu'' 'My Love Dorothy' selfed 'Nifty Fifty' sport/gy 'Outrageous' = PP x 'montana 'Aureomarginata'' 'Roller Coaster' = PP x 'hypoleuca' 'Ruby Benedict' = PP x 'Tokudama Aureonebulosa' 'Sails at Sunset' = PP x 'hypoleuca' 'Seducer' selfed 'Silk Kimono' = PP x 'montana' 'Simply Sharon' seedling 'Skyward' = PP x 'hypoleuca' 'Song Sung Blues' = PP x 'Maekawa' 'Sportscaster' seedling 'Spring Break' = PP x '(x 'Dorothy Benedict')' 'Stellar by Starlight' = PP x 'hypoleuca' 'Super Star' = PP x 'Maekawa' 'Surf and Turf' = PP x 'Incredible Hunk' 'Teacher's Pet' = PP x 'montana' 'Unexpected Pleasure' = PP x 'montana' 'Van Wade' = PP x 'Northern Lights' 'Warwick Curtsey' = PP x 'nakaiana' 'Xanadu Contemplation' selfed