Re: harvesting hosta seed pods was: hostas blooming
- Subject: Re: [SG] harvesting hosta seed pods was: hostas blooming
- From: B* N*
- Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 14:11:31 -0400
At 11:21 AM 10/21/2001 -0700, Terry King <taeking@ENDLESSHEALTH.COM> wrote:
>Is Frances William self fertile?
Terry et al ...*Frances Williams* (the true form?) is very fertile indeed;
and being, one of the first hostas to bloom, thereby, the bees do a
terrific self-pollination job on it. I'm not going to get into the debate
about THE TRUE FORM verses 'Aurora Borealis' being sold as Frances
Williams; and so on and so forth.
Seedlings from Frances Williams, by my trials, have proven to be
tremendously beautiful: highly saleable specimens at their mature stage;
and landscapers, go absolutely bananas: wanting to use them? ..as soon as
they see them!. These kids have: very large BLUE'green leaves, not
green. There is, a very good bloom of waxy-coating over the green in the
leaves therefore, when one wants and needs large and big *BLUE* hostas,
early flowering, with white florets: then growing seed from Frances
Williams is very highly advisable! As stated earlier, this seed is mostly
a *self-pollination* done by the bees; and which, triggers "Hybrid
Vigor"... well worth growing, by my idealism of perfection?... in the BLUE
LEAF/white flowering specrum of hosta coloring?
<just a few thoughts> hope this helps
Bill Nash Guelph Ontario Canada Zone 4
<subnote> AN Oklahoma Hosta-Hemerocallis Seed Bank, will be launching
it's seed available for growing season 2002, very soon. Go to
www.yahoogroups.com and check out *hostapix* group if interested. This is
where it will happen. Else contact: "Betsy Mahtani Cleveland OK Zone7"
<bmathani@flash.net> or myself, for more information.
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