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Hosta IDs if possible

DampGardenManDampGardenMan Posts: 1,054
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Not sure if they're all the same or not. We inherited them with the garden. Not sure if it's possible to tell what they are at this early stage? All about 12" across and 9" high.










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  • Pauline 7Pauline 7 Posts: 2,246
    Bumped up for @Hostafan1
    West Yorkshire
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Does it matter?   The Hosta Library has a 40 page list of named varieties - 150 to a page.  Not sure how you'd narrow them down........
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • DampGardenManDampGardenMan Posts: 1,054
    I was just curious! But I didn't realise it was that difficult (impossible?) a task.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I might suggest Halcyon for No3 , but nothing certain on the others.
    Devon.
  • Joyce GoldenlilyJoyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933
     I wondered if No 3 might be one of the glauca varieties. The leaves will grow much bigger, go darker blue and be more puckered and pleated. The flowers could be lavender instead of white.
  • DampGardenManDampGardenMan Posts: 1,054
    OK, thanks. I'll wait to see what the flowers are like (slugs permitting!) and then see if I can get any closer. Glauca sounds good by the way, we like the blue ones though some of the ones sold as such seem awfully green to my eyes (OH claims to see blue in them).
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    The degree of blueness in the glauca varieties depends to a large extent on the amount of sunlight the hosta is exposed to. 

    https://www.hostasdirect.com/learn/hosta-color-changes/ 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • DampGardenManDampGardenMan Posts: 1,054
    Interesting link, thanks. Quite startling the colour change in their example of Hosta 'June'!
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    We have Hosta 'Stained Glass' http://www.hayloft-plants.co.uk/Hosta/Stained-Glass-(AGM)/prod9052.html  which loses it's patterning totally if in the shade.  It needs direct sunlight for at least half of the day. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • DampGardenManDampGardenMan Posts: 1,054
    I will be planting hostas at some point, mostly in shady "woodland" beds. But some will go alongside the stream and they will get direct sun in the late afternoon/evening. And very wet feet! A lot of experimenting called for I guess ...
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