Re: trailing in pots
"Saxton, Susan" wrote:
> For dwarf hosta, a darling one is Goldian Tiara, green with gold edges.
Susan/David,
Golden Tiara is nice, but it depends on how big/small you want the
hostas to be. Golden Tiara is about one foot tall. Below is a list of
dwarf and miniature hostas that I took from a catalog for another member
of the group. They all sell for $10 or less from this particular
company. I have Lemon Lime and Harmony. Lemon Lime is lemon line in
color, about 3 - 4 inches tall and about 8 inches across - current size
in my garden and their second year (catalog description - Chartreuse
gold, 3" x 1" leaves, makes good mound and edger; light purple,
reblooming flowers). Harmony is described in the catalog as - deep blue,
slug resistant, purplish flowers, late. Slub resistant is right! and
late flowers also - mine don't have any yet. It is currently about 6
inches tall and about 10 inches across - also second year in my garden.
D = Dwarf and M = Miniature
Amethyst Gem - green - D
Fortunei Maya (O.S.) - yellow center changing to grn, grn margin - D
Bunchocko (sieboldii) - green w/white edge - D
Purple Dwarf (O.S.) - lanceolate dark green leaves, deep purple flwrs -
D
Allen P. McConnell - green w/ white edge - M
Crown Jewel (O.S.) - chartreuse w/ white margin - M
Little Jim (O.S.) - vry sml ireg streaked grn,gold&white,lav flwrs - M
Little Razor - very pale gold, lavendar flowers - M
Little White Lines - small lvs med grn w/white margin - M
Masquerade - white ctr, dark grn, ireg margin, purple flwrs - M
minor 'Alba' (O.S.) - all green lvs make good edge or mound - M
Minuta (O.S.) - larger than H. venusta 'All-Green' - M
Munchkin (O.S.) - sml grn lvs w/good substance,forms tight mound good
edger - M
Shining Tot - small shiny, all grn leaves are flat, lav flwrs - M
Snowstorm (O.S.) - all green - M
Tiny Tears (O.S.) - tiny grn lvs form dense mound - M
Tot Tot (O.S.) - very small compact grower,all blue-grn - M
venusta (species) (O.S.) - green, glossy below, 1.6"x.5-1", abruptly
pointed, violet flowers - M
venusta 'Anderson Form' (O.S.) - very small dark green - M
venusta 'Benedict Form' (O.S.) - very small dark green selection - M
venusta 'Maekawa Form' - the original form, truly small - M
venusta 'Variegated' - white,ireg ctr,drk grn twisted leaf margin,purple
flower - M
Yakushima Mizu - small, very wavy, all green leaves - M
Yellow Waves (O.S.) - light yellow, white flowers - M
I just noticed Lemon Lime and Harmony are not on this list, so looked
them up. The catalog lists Lemon Lime as Small which by their chart
means a 6-10" mound (height). Harmony is listed as Medium = 10-18"
mound. For the list above - Dwarf = up to 4" and Miniature = 4-6".
Maybe my two just aren't "old enough" yet!
Karen
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