HORKELIELLA PURPURESCENS Ratko 98-323 PRICE 1@ $6.50

Collected from the edges of montane meadows at 7,800’ in part shade it forms impressive basal tufts with closely spaced pinnate leaflets, looking like some mutant Ivesia; the delicate sprays of white flowers are quite attractive.

 

Hormium pyrenaicum ....... PRICE 1@ $8.00

Evergreen rosettes like a huge Ramonda give rise to 1' stems of blue or pink mint like flowers. This showy plant is unique, indeed they even gave it its own genus and you know how much we like monotypic.

hosta

If not overdone Hostas can present a spectacular accent in a shady garden, Poorly laid out and overdone with prominent labeling they can be hideous, We have tried to offer a sampling of the range of foliage types available, focusing mostly on classic plants along with some moderately priced newer introductions. We have attempted to select the best in each category, and tried to avoid the yet another gold edged green Hosta with a new name and a $200 price tag scam. It was a daunting task to narrow the list of available and moderately priced plants to just the very best, we think we did a good job. Be wary when price shopping as you may receive a tiny plant barely out of the tissue culture tube, ours are all large divisions and many have multiple eyes. One of these years we will get around to releasing the Arrowhead Yet Another series (® never to be applied for) yet another blue, yet another gold edged etc.

 

hosta ‘august MOON’ ..... PRICE 1@ $12.00

Gold leafed sieboldiana, large yellow seer-suckered leaves almost white flowers.

 

Hosta 'Baby Bunting' ..... PRICE 1@ $15.00

The dwarf solid blue plant that sported Pandora’s box and Hope, it is a nice small Hosta.

 

Hosta 'Black Hills' .......... PRICE 1@ $20.00

An award winning plant with large dark green puckered and heavily corrugated leaves, a nice contrast to all the variegated plants you tend to see in Hosta collections.

 

Hosta 'Brim Cup' ................. PRICE 1@ $15.00

A sport of Wide Brim with very wide yellow variegation and cupped leaves, it is a standout, not "Yet another gold variegated Hosta". 

 

Hosta ‘cat’s Eye’ ................ PRICE 1@ $25.00

Venusta with a broad creamy center, this is one of the best dwarf Hostas we have seen in years, for a change it lives up to the Terra Nova photo, a truly outstanding plant

 

Hosta 'Cherry Berry' ..... PRICE 1@ $20.00

Outstanding hybrid from Lachman, narrow lance shaped leaves edged in deep green and creamy in the center sets off the red petioles and red marked flower scape; striking plant.

 

Hosta 'Chinese Sunrise' PRICE 1@ $15.00

A variegated hybrid of Hosta cathayana bred by Gus Krossa, it is an interesting small plant that seems to be experiencing a resurgence in popularity.

 

Hosta 'Color Glory' ....... PRICE 1@ $25.00

A nice gold margined sieboldiana type from Paul Aden that dates back to 1980, we deem it worthy of garden space.

 

Hosta 'Elvis Lives' ........... PRICE 1@ $25.00

Brigitta couldn't resist Tony Avent's seductive name, wavy margined arching leaves, 'Elvis Lives' is still fairly new; it is true, Elvis has been sighted leaving the nursery.

 

Hosta 'Fair Maiden'........... PRICE 1@ $25.00

The bold streaky cream edged variegation stands out in a crowd.

 

HOSTA 'FIRE AND ICE' .......... PRICE 1@ $20.00

Patriot reversed, this is one of the showiest Hostas we grow, much preferable to Patriot.

 

Hosta 'Flame Stitch' ...... PRICE 1@ $25.00

The reverse of Hosta ventricosa 'Aureomarginata' with white centers and streaky green variegated margins, a choice plant, distinctly different and highly sought after.

 

Hosta 'Fragrant Blue' . PRICE 1@ $20.00

Small to medium clumps of pointed very blue leaves and white fragrant flowers.

 

Hosta 'Fragrant Bouquet' PRICE 1@ $25.00

Spectacular light green leaves with a narrow yellow to white margin and long tubed very fragrant white flowers, a must have for every shade garden.

 

hosta ‘francee’ .................. PRICE 1@ $15.00

Excellent sun tolerance, deep green with a fine white edge, Patriot sported from this.

 

hosta ‘francis williams’ PRICE 1@ $19.00

The classic gold edged sieboldiana, it is old but still very popular.

 

Hosta 'Frosted Jade' ..... PRICE 1@ $20.00

A Eunice Fisher award winner, jade green leaves with a white margin, it resulted from a cross between H. montana and a Krossa B-1 hybrid.

 

Hosta sieboldii 'Gingko Craig' PRICE 1@ $8.00

Narrow leaves with fine white margins; it is a classic edging Hosta.

 

Hosta 'Great Expectations' PRICE 1@ $20.00

In my estimation, the finest variegated Hosta. A gold centered sieboldiana, the foliage is heavy textured and seer-suckered at maturity and the streaky variegation is almost tricolor with many subtle shadings, it is fairly slow growing but worth the wait.

 

Hosta 'Guacamole' ........... PRICE 1@ $20.00

Green on green variegate with a cute name, it is very popular but doesn’t do much for me, perhaps I lack the subtle Hosta appreciation gene.

 

Hosta 'Hope' ............................ PRICE 1@ $2500

An outstanding miniature from Shady Oaks, a reversed sport of ‘Pandora’s Box’, both of which are out of ‘Baby Bunting’, greenish blue centered leaves with a bold creamy yellow edge streaking into the area where they merge.

 

Hosta 'Inniswood' ............. PRICE 1@ $25.00

Seersuckered gold leaves with green margins make this a standout, the more I see it; the better I like it.

 

Hosta 'June' ........................... PRICE 1@ $20.00

The broad chartreuse yellow centers and narrow green edge gives this a unique look that stands out, which is our main criterion for selecting Hostas. There are just too many named look-alikes sold at outrageous prices in the Hosta world.

 

Hosta 'Just So' ................... PRICE 1@ $20.00

I'd rate this the best of the dwarf gold-centered green-edged Hostas, I like way the gold centered ones catch the light and brighten a shady garden.

 

Hosta 'Kabitan' ................... PRICE 1@ $15.00

Long narrow foliage with a clear green edge, 'Kabitan' has been around for a while but is still one of the best

 

Hosta 'kirishima' .................. PRICE 1@ $8.00

Named for a volcanic mountain in South-Central Kyushu, it is intermediate between H. 'Saishu Jiima' and H. 'Yakushima Mizu'.

 

Hosta 'Krossa Regal' .... PRICE 1@ $15.00

Krossa is no more but his hosta lives on also his house in Livonia is up for sale, complete with more state record trees than any other property in Michigan. Neighbors have ripped off a lot of the small stuff but it is still an incredible collection of plants, Contact Jim Langhammer if you want details of what all is there.

 

Hosta 'Last Dance' ........... PRICE 1@ $35.00

A big bold Hosta, gold leaves with an irregular green blotch in the center or if you prefer green leaves with a wide gold margin, Hans from Shady Oaks selected this sport of Summer Music.

 

Hosta 'Masquerade' ........ PRICE 1@ $15.00

A white centered sport of Hosta venusta with a fine green edge, it looks a bit like a miniature White Christmas, they were a sellout the last time we offered them.

 

Hosta 'Medusa' .................... PRICE 1@ $20.00

A gracillima hybrid with extremely long snaky leaves with a rippling green margin surrounding a yellow center and topped by purple flowers, the name brings back memories of one of the best hunting hawks I ever owned.

 

Hosta 'Millies Memoirs' PRICE 1@ $30.00

A mutation of Aspen Gold with thick heavily puckered and seersuckered leaves slightly cupped at the edges, dark green centers with a broad gold margin, an outstanding tokudama, named for one of the founders of Shady Oaks.

 

Hosta 'Minuteman' ........... PRICE 1@ $15.00

A sport out of Patriot with more cupping in the leaves, it is not hugely different but i like it.

 

Hosta 'Northern Exposure' PRICE 1@ $15.00

A white emargined sieboldiana, its a nice variation on the Frances Williams theme; this is more stable and a better performer than some of the other plants in the northern series, a decent plant with a good name.

 

Hosta 'Obsession' ............. PRICE 1@ $30.00

A spectacular sport of sparkling burgundy from Tony Avent; medium green leaves with a darker green margin and numerous lavender flowers, a unique looking plant.

 

Hosta 'Old Glory' .............. PRICE 1@ $40.00

Han’s beautiful edged sport of ‘Glory’ with the original thick golden leaf, margined with a 1” green band, a good grower with very heavily textured foliage, we think it is destined to become a classic.

 

Hosta 'On Stage' ................ PRICE 1@ $30.00

The reversed form of the classic Montana Aureo-marginata, Yellow centers turn white later in the year, the large clumps will stop traffic.

 

HOSTA 'PANDORA'S BOX' ... PRICE 1@ $19.00

Considered one of the best small Hostas, small rounded leaves with a splash of white variegation in the center, it is indeed very beautiful, but like so many of the variegates it can be a bit variable.

 

hosta 'patriot' ................... PRICE 1@ $12.00

Excellent landscape plant, a sport of Francee with wide white margins somewhat panned by the cognoscenti because of the way it was introduced. It auctioned initially for $800.00 or so, and the market was flooded a year later by a zillion tissue cultured ones before the mid level pyramid people could make a buck.

 

Hosta 'Pauls Glory' ....... PRICE 1@ $25.00

Another choice gold centered green edged plant smaller than On Stage and very highly regarded. 

 

Hosta 'Pizzazz' .................... PRICE 1@ $19.00

A blue, with wavy creamy white margins and dense masses of white flowers, big leaves with good substance, a contender in the yet another edged sieboldiana sweepstakes.

 

Hosta 'Queen Josephine' PRICE 1@ $15.00

Craig Masching made us add this one so it must be choice but for the life of me, I can't remember what the damn thing looks like. Look it up yourself, I have Hosta burnout; we only picked choice and unique ones but it is still hard to say something different about each of them. We have plans to introduce the Arrowhead 'Yet Another series' Yet Another Blue' 'Yet Another White Variegated' etc. to avoid this problem in the future.

 

Hosta 'Reptilian' ............... PRICE 1@ $25.00

Aptly named with warty scaly looking bluish gray foliage, cupped and puckered on the margins, with reddish petioles and flower stems, mature plants have a lot of character.

 

Hosta 'Revolution' .......... PRICE 1@ $30.00

A mutation of loyalist with the central white zone flecked and streaked with green, a cool plant, long term stability remains to be seen, but even if it reverts to loyalist it wouldn’t be the end of the world.

 

Hosta 'Sagae'......................... PRICE 1@ $20.00

A yellow margined Hosta fluctuans, one of the largest and most impressive Hosta species it easily made our best Hosta list.

 

Hosta 'So Sweet' ............... PRICE 1@ $19.00

1996 Hosta of the year large fragrant flowers and good variegation all in one plant.

 

Hosta 'STILETTO' ................. PRICE 1@ $12.00

Long narrow dagger like leaves with a white wavy edge, a nice contrast with wide leaves.

 

Hosta 'Striptease' .......... PRICE 1@ $20.00

Tease is right we paid a bunch of money for these when they were near the top of the pyramid and finally got them years later, of course by then the price had already dropped, live and learn, they are pretty enough with a nice skunk stripe and probably worth twenty bucks considering they were going for a hundred originally.

 

Hosta 'TATTOO' ..................... PRICE 1@ $25.00

Tony Avent’s outstanding sport of ‘Little Aurora’, gold centered leaves with a broad irregular lime green edge, what makes it unique is the dark green overlay markings. Tony claims they look like maple leaves, and given the variability in Acer I guess that is safe.

 

Hosta 'Tiny Tears' ............ PRICE 1@ $12.00

Very tiny like a diminutive venusta, it is perfect in a trough.

 

Hosta 'Warwick Delight' PRICE 1@ $20.00

An exciting plant from Gil Jones, it is a hybrid of blue moon; although you wouldn’t guess that looking at it; broad creamy white centers surrounded by a streaky dark green margin, it forms a relatively small compact clump in the garden

 

hosta 'wide BRIM’ ............... PRICE 1@ $15.00

Green center wide margins of creamy yellow, an older variety but still very nice.

 

Hosta 'Wogan' ...................... PRICE 1@ $12.00

Martin brought us this medium sized Japanese Hosta, its cute but not stunning, falls in my yet another Hosta category.

 

Hosta 'Wolverine' ............ PRICE 1@ $30.00

An excellent new plant from our friends Jim and Sandy Wilkins, (whose new garden we finally saw last summer) blue lance shaped leaves bordered in gold, a standout.

 

hosta ex rock PRINCESS   PRICE 1@ $8.00

A nice group of venusta like seedlings we raised from seed Betty Blake sent us, small enough for the rock garden.

 

hosta clausa.V CLAUSA .. PRICE 1@ $8.00

Similar to lancifolia but with tall scapes of reddish purple flowers that never open noted for its very long stolons; Korea 1930, very rare in the wild. 

 

Hosta japonica .................... PRICE 1@ $8.00

A.ka. Aletris japonica, A.K.A. Hemerocallis japonica, A.K.A. Niobe japonica, A.K.A. Hosta lancifolia, A.K.A. Hemerocallis lancifolia, A.K.A. Saussurea japonica, A.K.A. Hosta caerulea f. lancifolia, A.K.A. Hosta japonica var fortis, A.K.A. Hosta caerulea viridis, A.K.A. Hosta viridis, A.K.A. Hosta angustifolia, A.K.A. Hosta sieboldii f lancifolia, A.K.A. Hosta japonica f typica, A.K.A. Funkia ovata var lancifolia, A.K.A. Funkia japonica f typica, A.K.A. Funkia japonica, A.K.A. Funkia lancifolia; all in all, the taxonomy is pretty Funkiad up.

 

Hosta kikutii 'Kifukuran' PRICE 1@ $15.00

Named variegated forms of species Hosta are not very common, this is unusual, attractive, and very garden worthy; the Japanese know how to pick em.

 

Hosta minima ........................... PRICE 1@ $8.00

We raised this from British seed, minima is a species of somewhat dubious status sitting close to venusta, whatever its taxonomic standing it is a tiny little plant, worth growing.

 

hosta montana aureomarginata PRICE 1@ $19.00

Our most popular Hosta here at the nursery, still selling for high prices years later, possibly the best large gold edged Hosta.

 

Hosta plantaginea 'Aphrodite' PRICE 1@ $30.00

A beautiful hose in hose double form of H. plantaginea grandiflora it is perhaps the most lovely of all the Hostas in terms of flowers.

 

hosta plantaginea grandiflora PRICE 1@ $12.00

Huge fragrant white flowers in late summer always in demand we sell out as soon as customers smell ours in the garden; I'd take this over many of the new high priced introductions.

 

Hosta rohdeifolia ........... PRICE 1@ $12.00

A medium sized green species introduced in Japan by Fumio Maekawa in 1940, but remaining scarce in collections to this day.

 

Hosta tokudama 'Aureonebulosa' PRICE 1@ $15.00

An internally misted and streaked variegate that is quite stable, old plants show wonderful puckering, it is one of the all time classic Hostas, serious collectors will all have it but if you are new to Hosta this one should be on your acquisitions list.

 

Hosta tokudama 'Flavocircinalis' PRICE 1@ $15.00

Dwarf and slow growing this is like a miniature Frances Williams, it has been around a long time but its slow rate of increase has kept it a desirable and uncommon plant.

 

Hosta tsushimensis P.U. stripe PRICE 1@ $15.00

A named form of a rarely seen species Hosta from the Tsushima Islands in the Korean strait, it has not yet flowered for us, a rarity that you are not to likely encounter locally.

 

Hosta ventricosa 'Aureomarginata'     PRICE 1@ $15.00

Another variegated species Hosta, ventricosa is difficult to tissue culture and slow to increase, it eventually makes huge clumps of heavily ribbed leaves that are absolutely stunning. A must-have plant on everyone's list.

 

hosta VENUSTA  ..................... PRICE 1@ $8.00

One of the tiniest Hostas from Korea and Japan, small enough for the rock garden these have a high cute quotient.

 

Hosta venusta 'Kin Botan' PRICE 1@ $15.00

Yinger has been distributing this, and we could not resist; a nice gold edged form of the “thumbnail Hosta”; the large pinkish purple flowers seem huge next to the miniscule plants. Ender tried to translate 'Kin Botan' on the web and it is either small button or small tree peony.

 

Hosta venusta 'Porter ' PRICE 1@ $15.00

One of the smallest venusta forms, this is a perfect trough Hosta, when grown in the sun it really tightens up but it seems to tolerate such abuse and still thrive.

 

Hosta yingeri DJH 270 ...... PRICE 1@ $15.00

From a Hinkley collection on Taehuksan Island in Korea at 1200’ on dry rocky cliffs, it is named for Barry Yinger and an excellent species Hosta.

 

HOUTTUYNIA CORDATA CHAMELEON PRICE 1@ $6.50

unusual creeping ground cover with attractive multicolored foliage, it spreads rapidly on moist sites. the plants have a strange odor noticeable only when they are pulled apart for propagation purposes.

 

Houttuynia cordata FLORA plena PRICE 1@ $8.00

A double flowered form Dick brought in with quite attractive flowers, it has been very slow and restrained for us, on the other hand I think Punnett sprayed his patch with Roundup.

 

Hutchinsia alpina .............. PRICE 1@ $5.50

A cute little monotypic European crucifer with snowy white flowers and dissected deep green hummocks of leaves, it is pathetically easy but nevertheless a first rate rock plant.

 

Hylomecon japonicum.. PRICE 1@ $24.00

A fantastic little woodland poppy from Japan, this forms low slowly spreading mounds covered in spring by myriads of Meconopsis-like yellow flowers.  For all of you who have ordered it from the seed exchanges only to be disappointed when some big weedy thing germinated the wait is over. We finally have some divisions thanks to Punnett. Actually, he brought us a clump years ago but we could never bring ourselves to divide it, this fall he brought us more and we whacked it to pieces.

 

Hymenoxys scaposa....................... 1@ $6.50

A prolific bloomer with yellow daises for months and attractive grassy foliage these are from cultivated material from alplains.

 

Hypericum archibaldii .... PRICE 1@ $8.00

A highly desirable plant, neat foliage and large yellow flowers and obviously the Archibald name doesn’t hurt.

 

Hypericum olympicum ssp uniflorum grandiflorum 1@ $6.50

An attractive variant with particularly nice flowers that we got from H&H.

 

HYPERICUM YAKUSIMENSE (Pseudopetiolatum yakusimense)            PRICE 1@ $6.50

A neat mat former related to kiusianum, staring at this miniscule St. Johns-Wort creeping over the edge of a trough is more likely to calm your nerves than drinking some disgusting tasting tea made from some weedy species.