One of our favorite new hostas is Hosta ‘Pocketful of Sunshine’.  The longer we grow it, the better we like it…here’s a new photo.  It originated as a sport, originally from Hosta ‘Maui Buttercups’.  Hosta ‘Pocketful of Sunshine’ has very thick, corrugated leaves, with a dramatic gold and dark green pattern on a small-medium sized clump.

 

I've got hostas on the brain today, since in a few hours, we'll soon be hosting 420 hosta friends for an intimate dinner, as part of the 2015 American Hosta Society National Convention. I'm also just back from a road trip to Walters Gardens in Michigan to visit one of the top perennial plant breeders in the world, our friend Hans Hansen.  While there, I snapped quite a few hosta photos, and here are some of my personal favorites. Hosta 'Happy Dayz' is a sport of the difficult to grow Hosta 'Orange Marmalade'...a plant that grows fine in a pot, but sulks in the ground.  This mutation has dramatically more vigor and makes a superb garden specimen.   Hosta 'Key West' is an enormous gold-leaf hosta with great vigor from our friend, Indiana hosta breeder, Olga Petryszyn. Hosta 'Bridal Falls' is a stunning, ruffled leaf introduction from Holland's Jan van den Top that I just adore. Here's one more or Olga's best hosta creations, Hosta 'Brother Read more [...]