Not my best pic,but Abiqua moonbeam has been a good grower for me. When I planted this hosta 3 years ago,it was so small,I could now plant it under where it is now,and you wouldn't be able to see it! This pic is from last year. Phil

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Queen Josephine. I don't have a pic handy at the moment, but she has such beautiful shiny leaves and is very attractive in the garden.

I second Q.Josephine, everyone comments on her shiny beauty. I also love Tenryu a very tall stately hosta mine comes up a dark bluish gray then slowly turns greenish blue then it goes to a light grayish green. The color changes & shape are outstanding as I have a green leafed Chinese Wisteria behind it. Then when the scrapes grow its like jack & the bean stock. I think the flowers were about 6feet tall last season what an amazing sight. We had a very rainy summer & it was good for the plants. In a sea of variegated plants sometimes we over look a hosta for its shapeliness. I think its a must have, but give it some good space behind or at the end of others in the boarder as it will be so much taller.

Royal Flush. No pics handy, but I do love her!

'Wolverine.' Looks like a walking tarantula. Love the blue & green streaks inside the creamy margins. Grenfell/Shadrack's picture is the best.

Patann, you should check out Lakeside Dragonfly - it's Wolverine with wider margins - a real beauty. I also love Radiant Edger, Risky Business and Piedmont Gold.

I have grown very fond of Lime Piecrust. It isn't as frilly or as yellow as some of the newer varieties, but it has been a good steady hosta for me. I like it next to Millennium.

I don't have pictures, but my choices are Salute (a beautiful blue that's also slug resistant) and Captain Kirk (a pretty bi-color light/dark green).

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Paul

Jester

Emily Dickinson & Raspberry Sorbet
AND.......I agree with Mary 52 @ Spritzer

Another recommendation for Salute. It's lovely wherever I put it. Very fertile, too. Very slug resistant, nice blue foliage and its upright habit demands attention. A good companion, it also makes other hostas look better, too.
I think El Capitan is underrated. Beautiful, slug resistant foliage and it too, shines wherever placed. Fast grower, yielding lots of divisions, if you can bear to split.
My absolute new favourite is 'Sleeping Beauty.' Pointed, frosted nlue-grey leaves with an irregular creamy margin.
The margin differs from leaf to leaf, from hosta to hosta. No mound is exactly the same. Sleeping Beauty grows quickly, and in a new bed, planted last year, she is my favourite among about 150 new hostas planted.

I love several of the lakeside hostas such as metermaid, shoremaster and accolade.
Non lakesides are sweet home chicago, party favor, spring fling.

For me it's Formal Attire. About eight years ago when I bought my first hostas I found it mixed with a number of Fortunei Aureomarginata. Leaves are a dark blue-green and held quite upright. In spring Formal Attire has a gold to cream edge, but in summer it turns almost white. ThereÂs a lighter green color where the margin overlaps the center color. The leaves are about 9 inches long with the margins reaching 1 inch. The substance is good, but I do see slug damage later in the season if I don't use bait. It has not grown fast, but after all these years it is about 4 ft across. I don't often see Formal Attire in others' gardens or offered for sale. Although it is not flashy visitors often ask about it.

Mark

This is a really fun thread. There are a lot of good recommendations here.
McTavish, those are two beautiful hostas. But please tell us about the flowers. Are they really that blue?

I had not even heard of this hosta until I was sent one as a freebie with some I had ordered last year. For a second year plant, Dust Devil is really impressing me! It has grown a lot even from the time this picture wss taken about 3 weeks ago.

chris

I agree with Patann. Wolverine is one of my top 10 favorites. Looks great all year.

I wanted to try some sun tolerant, and preferably fragrant hostas in my sunnier back yard. Lots of large ones to choose from, and all did well.
I was also looking for small ones to put on the outer edge of my daylily garden. This is 'Sugar Babe," one of Solberg's intros. Makes a nice dense mound, is maybe 15'-18" across now. It has fragrant purple flowers on short scapes. PERFECT for edging in a sunny area.

Sugar Babe

ninamarie -Yes Hirao Majesty flowers are exactly that color. I'm posting one more picture of the stages it's flowers goes through. I remember when I ordered that one from Hosta Choice in Ontario. Margot told me the emerging flowers reminded her of a bird beak. They really do. From tht stage they become tight clusters above the foilage then the contrast of purple and white. They end up a fairly strong lavender color.

Cool Hand Luke also has some pretty nice flowers.

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Gorgeous, McT!

Sum & Substance
Sorry, no pics

I have something that looks like Spritzer with more blue, wider margins that gets asked after often. I have a bad habit tossing tags when I plant, and that one got plugged 10 yrs ago.
It's parked with german iris and a cinnamon fern.