Hosta IDs if possible

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• Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

  May 2018

  Dovefromabove said:

  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. 

  Didn't you have it in the shade at some point?? 

  Devon.

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  May 2018 edited May 2018

  Hostafan1 said:

  Dovefromabove said:

  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. 

  Didn't you have it in the shade at some point?? 

  Yes, and it was just a plain nondescript boring mid green 
  
  
  
  But here it is looking beautiful in the sun (back right) .... excuse the washing 

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

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• Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

  May 2018

  I still your Fireworks. Mine is a wee  weeny thing.

  Devon.

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• DampGardenMan Posts: 1,054

  May 2018

  So the yellow centres only developed when it got some sun?
  

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  May 2018

  DampGardenMan said:

  So the yellow centres only developed when it got some sun?
  

  Yes, that's it. 

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

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