Stories Behind the Names of Hostas

Here's another one.

Alex Summers says he named H. 'Blue Wedgwood' because the shape of the
leaf was like the shape of the wedge he uses to split his wood. "Blue
Wedgwood was in a batch of seedlings sent to Alex from Eric Smith. This
was back in the days when Alex and Eric were doing a lot of plant
swapping across the big pond.

There is a story floating around that Blue Wedgwood was named after
English dinnerware. Alex says this is not so.

I will archive all postings on this thread.

Dan Nelson
Bridgeville DE
zone 7
SussexTreeInc@ce.net

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Subject: Stories Behind the Names of Hostas


Many would naturally think that Abiqua Drinking Gourd was named such
because
of the cupped leaves. Chuck Purtymun gave me this account. He was in his
garden after a rain. His hounddog was with him and he noticed that his
pet
was drinking from one of the leaves where rain water had collected.

Neat and Tidy. Lucy Simpers gave me this account. She had planted a
number of
seeds from Golden Circles and wrote to one of the mavens, "The seedlings
are
neat and tidy." In many catalogs one finds that it was named such
because it
is NOT neat and tidy.Not so.

Do you all have some similar accounts to share? I am sure the archvist
of the
AHS should like to have them.

CH II
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