I have Teaspoon, and I love it, but I don't really consider it a cupped hosta, I guess because it's little. I also have Abiqua Drinking Gourd, which is gorgeous, when it is clean. I usually avoid cupped plants because they collect so much debris, and water, and mosquito larvae, and constantly need cleaning out.

Love Pat - debris collecting in cupping doesn't bothers me much.

Paul

Speaking of debris, here's a Hosta growing under a Maple

I only have one,Abiqua Drinking Gourd,so I guess it's that one! Phil

'Big Daddy'!

Don B.

I really like DEEP POCKETS. Not that I've had much experience with it., or with other cupped hosta. Very descriptive name though.

I also like Teaspoon, it is really a spoon sized little hosta with great looks. And my Love Pat will be growing for its first full season this year. I do not have any experience with the Ab.Drinking Gourd or Big Daddy. I have a LOT of stuff falling even though my only maples are Japanese and small at that.

ADG not yet fully unfurled, last year. It will be twice this size before it's done. This year it is just barely poking up. I guess because it is under an elm, and close to oaks, black walnuts, and honeysuckle and trumpet vines up the elm, I might get more bloom debris and leaves than most. If I don't clean them out on a regular basis I get compost in there.

I forgot I have Big Daddy but it isn't mature enough to bother me. Yet. This is only year 3 for it.

Sandy

That maple growing out of the debris in the hosta leave is priceless ! man do I know that feeling, those d*mn helicopter seeds can grow on a hot griddle I swear !

My neighbor next door (renters) blech
They had a row of maybe 100 small maples growing in their gutter on the garage. When the new people moved in they at least cleaned the gutters, but I found stinky wads of guck from their gutters on my fence, and in my mulch around my Hosta.. they just tossed it and didn't care where it went...

ABG is my oldest and best looking (when I take the time to clean out all the debris), but Deep Blue Sea looks like it will be gorgeous in a few years.

Teaspoon is cute, and not really cupped. I never have to clean it out.

Loved the maple in hosta photo!

Looks like ADG is the one to have, but Love Pat is awfully nice too.

The maple tree is priceless. You have to hand it to them, they are almost as determined to survive as Hostas.

Paul, may I ask what variety of Hosta that is? The one holding the Maple seedlings? Since it's my new wallpaper, I thought I should try and find out. :)

Thanks,
Don B.

I don't have a cupped one yet. However Deep Blue Sea has to be a current favorite. Here it is on tour, Midwest Hosta Convention:

Beverly

Sorry Don, I don't know the name. :shrug:

Paul

Bev,

I think Deep Blue Sea qualifies.

Steve

Can't pick just one. I love the cupped shape and don't mind the droppings on the leaf. I'm always picking and washing off anyway. Maybe in the first picture the rose petals would be decoration rather than debris?.

Fay, your Nippers is a lot more tender looking than mine. Perhaps mine was more beatup by the hot summer? Here it is

and I had another shot of it with a couple of other smaller tough guys. Let me see if that is on Flickr too.
Yeah, here it is with Rhino Hide and King Of Spades!

(If you do not have King OF Spades, it is a nice companion for Nippers.....and Rhino Hide can stand alone anywhere.)

And for another cupped hosta, with a lot of substance AND white backs, take a look at the Stuart Asch hosta Stiff Upper Lip.

Stiff Upper Lip

I posted this once, but it seems to have disappeared....

mctavish, you must be the one who started me on this. It was the rosedale spoons and the nippers. Beautiful, but I haven't found them anywhere.

I have a Black Hills, about 10 years old, but mine isn't really cupped?? Is it not Black Hills? Looked at the library pictures and it seems like some are a lot more cupped than others. I know I bought that one at Savorys, because its the only time I've been there.

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McTavish, love the Warwick Comet. I'm going to have to put that on my list this year! I have Abiqua Drinking Gourd so at the moment that's my favorite, until I can find a Warwick Comet . . . This hobby is addicting!

Terri

Moc.. That would be Myrle's plants and not mine. Mine are all still on their second season this year so any I have are not very cupped yet but I go to Myrle's place to dream of what is to come to be!
Faye