Aaaaw thankyou Elizabeth, its lovely to meet another addict , when yours get big enough to split we could swap some!!
I too have had many wrong plants over the years some I've managed to identify but still lots of unknown one I sent for twice from different suppliers and each time it was wrong!!, I've never known one change colour so drastically from dark to yellow, only thing I can think is if the supplier had planted Ezekiel in the spot where a yellow used to grow and didn't get all the root out of the yellow if enough roots left in it will regrow and if its a stronger plant, take over, shame I've seen pictures of Ezekiel its lovely.
Slovenia I'll have to look into that I've never bought from outside the UK but do swap regularly with my friend in the Azores 6 or 7 lovely ones coming from him in a couple of weeks.
Hope you get them going Hosta
It is a lovely one Lorna if there are no takers I'll pot it up and grow on for you for next year it'll be bigger then and survive really well in the post, I had one sent to me one year from Bulgaria 19 days in the post!! heaven knows where it had been, a bit yellow but it was fine after a soak and went on to flower the same year!
Kathy, it will be good to do a bit of swapping in the future but I don't think mine are as flamboyant as some of yours. Sometimes the plainer/simpler ones are more beautiful and make a bigger statement.
Your foliage looks so much better than mine as I planted the first wave of plants in full sun in a pebble bed and it gets too hot with the refelctive heat, this makes the leaves burn but the flowers appreciate it. I have turfed out some plants from another slightly more shaded soil bed and planted another dozen there, so I will have to see if that is better for the foliage. I am in the process of cleaning out a 15 metre x 2 metre bed that has become rampant with the common variety one while rescuing my little Corky which I love. There are others in there but I don't know which ones are worth keeping as the labels seem to have disappeared.
Do you have Elizabeth Salter. It is not a particularly pretty one but it is the name of my great great grandmother whom I have got to know through genealogy and old photos. If you have, this would be a swap for me.
Here is the link for the Slovenian plant specialist if you are interested. Dana speaks very good English and the plants are only a few pounds each, if that. I have ordered twice now and not been disappointed. One was wrong and another died but both were replaced with no bother when I ordered the next time. Plants were good quallity packed well and arrived in 3 days which I thought was pretty good.
I do have some plainer ones too Elizabeth but I do love the patterns and spiders are my absolute favourite the bigger the better
Mine are mainly grown in a large(ever increasing) bed in the middle of the garden in full sun, there are some in the borders too, think what helps them here is our house is built on old allotment land so has been improved over the years, we also have a friend with horses so plenty of free manure.
I'm sorry no I don't have Elizabeth Salter.
I looked at the site crikey the plants are so cheap!, I was also drawn to the hosta page Wow some lovely varieties there too at a very good price, postage is reasonable too for the amount of plants.
That's really kind Kathy thank you. Your right about the mouthful for the (Yazoo Wild Violet x Wild Rose Fandango) x(Lavender Blue Baby x Black Ice), It has lovely colours especially the last one.
Elizabeth that was site you gave, I love hosta's they have loads I don't have, Think I will have to give hubby a few hints.
Kathy for plainer ones they are really lovely, Bali Hai, Little Missy & Neyron Rose are my favourites out of the plainer ones but they are all lovely. You are very lucky having a garden on a old allotment, I bet your flowers grow lovely. xx
I have sent for a few of the hosta plants but only those that will tolerate a fair amount of sun which does restrict the choice for me. We only one place that does not get sun all day and that is quite cold and damp in the winter, so that is where they are. Our house is set in the middle of its plot and there are fields all round that so I am trying to plant up barriers with shrubs and trees to give us a bit of shade especially during the middle of the day. This takes time.
I'll look through my photos to see if there are any variety you have not posted that are worthwhile uploading.
Here are a few of the self coloured plants that I have.
This is the one I bought as Ezekiel but has turned out to be golden yellow. It does have single flowers as well. I think it could be Aztec Gold but perhaps you have another suggestion Kathy.
This one is Vohann, a brilliant performer.
Last is Charles Johnson
This is the first time I have uploaded a photo to a site, so hope I have done it correctly. It did not help when the internet went down on me halfway through and the photos were then in the wrong order. Good way of learning I suppose.
Yes very lucky with the garden we had to terrace it as it was on quite a steep slope so we had to bring some soil in too which was very sandy compared to the clay that's in the rest of the garden, so we can grow quite a wide variety of plants, even better the allotments are now at the bottom of our garden and we have one of those too
That is a lovely gold one Elizabeth I wouldn't like to make a guess though, there are so many with similar colouring, I have managed to id a couple of mine by going through old catalogues of the suppliers they were bought from but only the more distinct ones.
A few more of mine
Beat the Barons, this is one I'm never sure is a right plant, the description matches but it doesn't look like any other pictures I've seen of it, oh well its lovely anyway.
Strawberry Candy, this is the one that survived 19 days in the post
I agree with Beat the Barons it is a lovely plant. I too have Strawberry Candy, which is perfumed, as well as Strawberry Swirl, which is not.
I have a few doubles but the plant of Double Firecracker has only ever had single flowers as this one until 2013.
This is how it manifested itself that year in one stem while the others were as above.
Until this one appeared with 10 petals so not sure which one it was supposed to be.
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I find that a lot of the flowers have different shadings especially on the darker blooms, I suppose it is something to do with the intensity of the sun at the time of photographing.
I still have a few flowering and quite a few buds on some others but I don't know if they will bloom this year as the temperature is beginning to drop now. Still need to water though as we have not had rain for many weeks and the ground is so hard that I cannot prepare my next bed to plant out all the plants I have in pots.
Kathy, your lucky your allotment is only at the end of the garden, mine is about a 3 minute drive or maybe about a 20 minute walk uphill . Beat the Barons is a lovely one, the darker middle with the outer yellow is really lovely, Strawberry Candy is a lovely colour as well, must be a good plant to last that long in the post. love the name of the Well of Souls.
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Aaaaw thankyou Elizabeth, its lovely to meet another addict
, when yours get big enough to split we could swap some!!
I too have had many wrong plants over the years some I've managed to identify but still lots of unknown one I sent for twice from different suppliers and each time it was wrong!!, I've never known one change colour so drastically from dark to yellow, only thing I can think is if the supplier had planted Ezekiel in the spot where a yellow used to grow and didn't get all the root out of the yellow if enough roots left in it will regrow and if its a stronger plant, take over, shame I've seen pictures of Ezekiel its lovely.
Slovenia I'll have to look into that I've never bought from outside the UK but do swap regularly with my friend in the Azores 6 or 7 lovely ones coming from him in a couple of weeks.
Hope you get them going Hosta
It is a lovely one Lorna if there are no takers I'll pot it up and grow on for you for next year it'll be bigger then and survive really well in the post, I had one sent to me one year from Bulgaria 19 days in the post!! heaven knows where it had been, a bit yellow but it was fine after a soak and went on to flower the same year!
Some more of my seedlings today from the weedy wasp bit
These are all from a cross of (Yazoo Wild Violet x Wild Rose Fandango) x(Lavender Blue Baby x Black Ice) bit of a mouthful lol.
Kathy, it will be good to do a bit of swapping in the future but I don't think mine are as flamboyant as some of yours. Sometimes the plainer/simpler ones are more beautiful and make a bigger statement.
Your foliage looks so much better than mine as I planted the first wave of plants in full sun in a pebble bed and it gets too hot with the refelctive heat, this makes the leaves burn but the flowers appreciate it. I have turfed out some plants from another slightly more shaded soil bed and planted another dozen there, so I will have to see if that is better for the foliage. I am in the process of cleaning out a 15 metre x 2 metre bed that has become rampant with the common variety one while rescuing my little Corky which I love. There are others in there but I don't know which ones are worth keeping as the labels seem to have disappeared.
Do you have Elizabeth Salter. It is not a particularly pretty one but it is the name of my great great grandmother whom I have got to know through genealogy and old photos. If you have, this would be a swap for me.
Here is the link for the Slovenian plant specialist if you are interested. Dana speaks very good English and the plants are only a few pounds each, if that. I have ordered twice now and not been disappointed. One was wrong and another died but both were replaced with no bother when I ordered the next time. Plants were good quallity packed well and arrived in 3 days which I thought was pretty good.
http://www.eurohosta.com/hemerocallis
I do have some plainer ones too Elizabeth
but I do love the patterns and spiders are my absolute favourite the bigger the better
Mine are mainly grown in a large(ever increasing) bed in the middle of the garden in full sun, there are some in the borders too, think what helps them here is our house is built on old allotment land so has been improved over the years, we also have a friend with horses so plenty of free manure.
I'm sorry no I don't have Elizabeth Salter.
I looked at the site crikey the plants are so cheap!, I was also drawn to the hosta page Wow some lovely varieties there too at a very good price, postage is reasonable too for the amount of plants.
Here are a few of my less patterned daylilies
Bali Hai
Barbara Mitchell
Joan Senior
Little Missy
Neyron Rose
That's really kind Kathy thank you. Your right about the mouthful for the (Yazoo Wild Violet x Wild Rose Fandango) x(Lavender Blue Baby x Black Ice), It has lovely colours especially the last one.
Elizabeth that was site you gave, I love hosta's they have loads I don't have, Think I will have to give hubby a few hints.
Kathy for plainer ones they are really lovely, Bali Hai, Little Missy & Neyron Rose are my favourites out of the plainer ones but they are all lovely. You are very lucky having a garden on a old allotment, I bet your flowers grow lovely. xx
I have sent for a few of the hosta plants but only those that will tolerate a fair amount of sun which does restrict the choice for me. We only one place that does not get sun all day and that is quite cold and damp in the winter, so that is where they are. Our house is set in the middle of its plot and there are fields all round that so I am trying to plant up barriers with shrubs and trees to give us a bit of shade especially during the middle of the day. This takes time.
I'll look through my photos to see if there are any variety you have not posted that are worthwhile uploading.
Here are a few of the self coloured plants that I have.
This is the one I bought as Ezekiel but has turned out to be golden yellow. It does have single flowers as well. I think it could be Aztec Gold but perhaps you have another suggestion Kathy.
This one is Vohann, a brilliant performer.
Last is Charles Johnson
This is the first time I have uploaded a photo to a site, so hope I have done it correctly. It did not help when the internet went down on me halfway through and the photos were then in the wrong order. Good way of learning I suppose.
Thanks Lorna
Yes very lucky with the garden we had to terrace it as it was on quite a steep slope so we had to bring some soil in too which was very sandy compared to the clay that's in the rest of the garden, so we can grow quite a wide variety of plants, even better the allotments are now at the bottom of our garden and we have one of those too
That is a lovely gold one Elizabeth I wouldn't like to make a guess though, there are so many with similar colouring, I have managed to id a couple of mine by going through old catalogues of the suppliers they were bought from but only the more distinct ones.
A few more of mine
Beat the Barons, this is one I'm never sure is a right plant, the description matches but it doesn't look like any other pictures I've seen of it, oh well its lovely anyway.
Strawberry Candy, this is the one that survived 19 days in the post
Well of Souls
I agree with Beat the Barons it is a lovely plant. I too have Strawberry Candy, which is perfumed, as well as Strawberry Swirl, which is not.
I have a few doubles but the plant of Double Firecracker has only ever had single flowers as this one until 2013.
This is how it manifested itself that year in one stem while the others were as above.
Until this one appeared with 10 petals so not sure which one it was supposed to be.
.
I find that a lot of the flowers have different shadings especially on the darker blooms, I suppose it is something to do with the intensity of the sun at the time of photographing.
I still have a few flowering and quite a few buds on some others but I don't know if they will bloom this year as the temperature is beginning to drop now. Still need to water though as we have not had rain for many weeks and the ground is so hard that I cannot prepare my next bed to plant out all the plants I have in pots.
Kathy, your lucky your allotment is only at the end of the garden, mine is about a 3 minute drive or maybe about a 20 minute walk uphill
. Beat the Barons is a lovely one, the darker middle with the outer yellow is really lovely, Strawberry Candy is a lovely colour as well, must be a good plant to last that long in the post. love the name of the Well of Souls.
Elizabeth your daylilies are lovely.