Re: Hosta seedlings

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• To: g*@hort.net
• Subject: Re: [CHAT] Hosta seedlings
• From: "Gene Bush" g*@otherside.com
• Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 07:26:44 -0400
• References: B38CD13E-AD96-11D7-B560-000A959AC6B4@rnet.com

Hello Cathy,
    I certainly am not an expert in hosta, but I have had them in the garden
for years now. When I forget and let them form seed pods and then forget to
clip the pods, I end up with seedlings all over the place. Most hosta are
pretty prolific in the seed department. All I have ever seen from all the
fancy foliages is green seedlings. Believe it takes a breeding program, or
lots of luck ... probably both, to get babies worth bragging about..... In
any case, mine get treated as weeds.
   Gene E. Bush
Munchkin Nursery & Gardens, llc
www.munchkinnursery.com
genebush@munchkinnursery.com
Zone 6/5  Southern Indiana

----- Original Message -----
> Am not a hosta breeder or anything, but I have noticed a number of
> seedling hostas in my front beds this year. One of the parents has got
> to be H. "Tokudama Flavocircinalis", or H. "Frances Williams", since
> they are in the bed where the seedlings are located. The other parent
> could be anything. My question is, how soon can you tell, from a
> seedling, what the adult leaf patterning will look like? (If I have
> something potentially special, I want to know about it before I weed!)
Gene E. Bush
> Any hosta experts out there?
> Cathy

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