Dawes - new in 2010

Delta Dawn - 2nd year

Diana Remembered - 2nd year

Paul

Dance with Me (new last year)

I may be the only person on this forum who has intentionally bought Dee's Golden Jewel. It's slow but I like it. My Jewel of the Nile is also starting to revert but that's ok. I'll be glad to keep the gold version.

McTavish,
Your pictures are just beautiful. I particularly like the ones with filtered light, like Dancing Queen and Deep Blue Sea. Do you take these in the early morning to get that light?

Steve

Thank you Steve. I'm glad you like the pictures. I am fascinated with light and the way it works or doesn't in photos. My hostas are everywhere (except maybe in the house). I do try to pick either early morning or late afternoon light when possible. Dancing Queen, Birchwood Parkeys Gold and Cold Heart (from the B's and C's) are in the woods. The sun hits at random through the day and I take pictures when it looks right. Camelot and Citation (C's) face east so that must have been in the morning. Dee's Golden Jewel, above, is down by the pool facing West in sun all afternoon. That one would have been late evening probably. One of my favourite light conditions is shown on Carolina Sunshine. There is a place the sun comes through from the west in early evening and slants across the plants facing south around my little lawn. They really light up. I've gotten some good ones there.

Here's Dawns Early light,down and to the left of Paradise power. It's not really down,as this pic is taken from above these plants,but for the purpose of this pic it is. Phil

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A very young Dancing In The Rain:

Mctavish, I noticed you posted a pic of 'Deja Blue'.
I have a 'Deja Blu'. Are they different plants?

Dick Ward, VERY slug resistant (heavily corrugated):

Julie

No Julie, our plants are the same. My picture above was taken at the very end of August with wet foilage and unusual light. Here is a picture earlier in the season.

Mctavish,

I was refering to the difference in spelling.

Mine is Deja Blu, yours is Deja Blue.

Julie

Here's Dress Blues,a really good grower for me. Phil

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Seems like most of us have the same 'D's' but I'll post for comparison reasons anyway:

Dark Star:
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Dream Queen leaf:
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Dorothy (seems my only unique contribution ;-)
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Dixie Chick, ok another new one, this is yr 1:
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Delta Dawn, not a good grower for us:
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Deja Blu:
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Dee's Golden Jewel leaf:
The way our several Jewel of the Niles are reverting, we'll be selling off a bunch of DGJ, teehee:
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Day's End, very early season, lower right:
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Darwin's Standard - does anyone else have trouble with this one reverting?:
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Dark Shadows:
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Dance With Me:
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as in 'Happy Hostaing'

A few more-

Dream Weaver - keeps slowly plodding along

Dragon Tales

Dixie Chick - new

Diva - new

Paul

Sorry to keep bringing up the D's but I found this pic of Dream Queen,and it's one of my favorites. Phil

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A few D's

Thanks for all the great pics all! Now my want list is growing again, darn!

hh

Yes sir, hh, we're here to corrupt. . er. . I mean serve. . .lol
I find myself jotting down names, too. . .hehe

There is a problem when you are able to expand your hosta plantings. My shadier space is about filled, and some of those I planted will be too crowded in a few years and will need bigger spaces, so it seems. That probably means donation to society sales. I am looking forward to see my Dream Queen, Dream Weaver and Thunderbolt fully mature, nice thick leaves. Bernd

Dark Shadows. New 2009.
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Dark Star. New 2009.
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