I don't have mine yet......tell us a little more about the article.

still waiting on mine also

Josh, has written a nice article on the merits of green hostas and how they are overlooked in the rush to plant variegated and other colored hostas. It makes you step back and think about greens in a new way... It's a good article.

Diann

Glad you liked it, Diann :) I hope it makes people think...there are so many fantastic green plants out there. Variegation is just one characteristic and that alone doesn't make a plant great.

Still don't have my Journal. Josh - which greens are your favorite?

The plants I mention in the article include:

ÂBridegroomÂ
ÂRaspberry SorbetÂ
ÂHoosier DomeÂ
ÂManhattanÂ
ÂCorkscrewÂ
ÂMarilyn MonroeÂ
ÂHarry van TrierÂ

There are lots of others I could have included. After the fact, I realized I neglected to include a dwarf!

I especially like that Raspberry Sorbet. I just might have to add it this year. :) I'll be up to see you later this spring, Josh. :)

Diann

I'm with you, Josh! My fave is Jade Cascade! Great article! :)

That's one I need to get this year, Andrea! That and Tidewater, and...and...

Can't wait for my journal to arrive to read this article.

The eye needs the solid ones to break up all that pattern in a hosta bed. As much as I love the variegation, I would estimate that 1/2 my plants are solid,to include golds and blues as well as green.

Love all those that Josh mentioned above-- each with unique traits and beautiful green! May I also mention 2 personal favorites? Yes, okay good-- White Triumphator and Lakeside Black Satin.

M-A

I just joined on March 11 and I got my Hosta Journal already...welll....bye...gotta go read it...Yea!!!!

Char

Please understand that this has nothing to do with Josh who is always kind and helpful.

I think the H Journal is dumbed down with each issue, it is very much the same people running things and I feel it is just stale.

I also know most of the people involved and they are all fine people, this IS NOT personal.

Geez, I feel kind of insulted (how can I help but take that comment personally?).

This is my very first Journal and I found it enjoyable and informative; and I have been growing hostas for several years, not a wide-eyed rookie. Maybe they need a "scientist" level Journal for people such as yourself. And, if I read correctly, the editors of the Journal conducted a survey and are only giving the readers what the majority wanted.

Not taken personally, Esther!

I think you aren't the only one who feels the Journal needs some fresh blood. As a matter of fact, when Bob Olson asked me to write something he said just that...he is trying to get some new writers involved to get a fresh perspective on things. I'm not sure how fresh my perspective is, but I was honored to be asked!

Hosta-haven is right...the current issue has results of a poll to see what people would like to see in future Journals. It will be an on going project. Not something that will happen over night. I do think the editors are aware and trying to freshen things up.

That said...I have not been an AHS member for probably 7-8 year. This was the first Journal I've read since then and I really enjoyed it! There were a couple of articles I wished were more detailed, but I completely understand the fine line between not enough and too much detail.

Also not to be taken personally, Esther, but if you have a good topic write about it! Anyone can submit an article...pictures, too. Don't worry about not being a good writer. The editors will make you look like a pro! It's the topic that counts.

I was asked and have corresponded with George Schmid about the subject. I found that parts of my subject had been covered by him in bits and pieces over the years. As you know it is a bit daunting to write anything even here and even when one tries there are still attacks.

Of course if you have a gripe then you should do something about it, my point was not a gripe just an observation. If I were the editor it might not feel like an observation!

Again thank you for the article which I enjoyed very much.

Josh, you'll fall in LOVE with Jade Cascade. I was hooked when I visited Whitmore's Dogwood Farms. They have VERY old and mature specimens all over the garden. I had never seen anything so beautiful (AND HUGE) - I had to have it! :)

Besides the incredible Montana Macro, I also am smitten with Flower Power and Tall Boy!

I very much enjoyed the Journal - it was my first. I think that it's really about "different strokes for different folks". Though I was a Biology/Geology double major in college and am also a Microsoft Engineer, I really enjoy looking at the pretty pictures most of all! LOL!

Though I suppose I have a technical or scientific mind, I enjoy a good "dumb down" now and then. At the same time, I think that perhaps if I were a serious hybridizer rather than just a hosta freakin' fanatic...LOL...I may tire of the lighter aspects of hosta-dom.

Perhaps they will eventually come up with the Hosta Scientific Journal or something similar, to address the desires of both aspects of the "sport" of hosta-ing. :)

Just my two cent ramblings for the evening.

Back to the pretty pictures! ;)

Maybe I will state my position better with this.

I find many questions here about water, shade, fertilizer, etc.

I feel that one should be able to go through hosta journals and find answers to all of these questions and more with reasons. I like pictures and horticulture.

Makes perfect sense!

Still Waiting for mine..

jill