All of them....however if you have to be selective, one I purchased last year was Lakeside Downsized - Wavy Chartruese with a white edge and a fast grower. One I just received that is adorable is Rainbows End. Very pretty yellow with a green edge. I also love Dragon Tails and its appears to be a good grower too.

small blue? try 'blue mouse ears'

check out tok aureo nebulia, & queen josephine

Thanks for all your suggestions. I'll be looking them up. Anyone have pictures of them in your gardens?

I have a young Queen Josephine. I wouldn't call it little though.

Well, I guess I could have showed the bed it was in as well.

You can see it to the right. If it gets any bigger I wouldn't call it small at all. And I have learned that most hostas get bigger.

Some of my favorite hostas that are on the small side are:
blue mouse ears
kabitan
wylde green cream
ice cream
harts tongue
sea octopus
purple lady fingers
gum drop or any of the "drops"
green with envy
feather boa or anything with the name boa in it.
glass heart
muffie
estralitta
hope
little white lines
and many more :-)

I love my 'Fire and Ice' hosta - here's a link to photos & info:

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/2935/

For beautiful, vibrant, chartreuse color
Emerald tiara

and for blue,
Baby Bunting

These two stay compact, stay true to color all season, and have lovely form.

Lainey

Add to that:

Blond Elf, Lemon Lime, Lemon Frost, Fair Maiden, Abby, Cheatin' Heart, Gaijin, Allan P. McConnell, Dixie Chick, venusta, um.... Dorset Blue is small & intensely blue....
The list is long, and others will help you make it even longer....

'Blue Mouse Ears' may be too tiny and too slow for you.

May I commend 'Kiwi Blue Baby' instead?

'Blue Moon' falls between the two in terms of size and speed of growth over the years.

Stay away from 'Blue Chip.' Mine is slow to come up, slow to grow, and I suspect is going to up and die on me despite three or four years of tender loving care. Ptui!

Your ideas are so great. Thanks! Botonybabe, The Emerald Tiara is beautiful, love the color. How much shade is she in?

salute

I second Botany Babe's 'Emerald Tiara' idea. Mine is glorious too, in fairly deep shade.

'Blue Mouse Ears' may be too tiny and too slow for you.

Sorry to hear, Lisa, that your BME is a slow grower. It's been a fast grower for me, but then again, mine are exposed to a fair bit of sun. Anything that goes from three to six eyes in a year is a good grower in my books. My suggestion for something brighter coloured is 'Platinum Tiara', it's vigorous and sure brightens up a dull spot. Another bright one would be Fire Island....

My Emerald Tiara gets about 2-3 hours of sun in the morning and the rest of the time is in shade, though not deep shade. I'm glad you like it. It's my favorite small hosta because not only is it beautiful, it's carefree, multiplies rapidly, and is a fluorescent jewel at dawn and dusk.

Lainey

I love 'Blue Mouse Ears' and I use it in the front border of a small corner of my yard near my patio. Remember the more sun 'BME' gets the less blue it will look.

Here's my 6 year old Blue Mouse Ears. Those are 6" deck boards. This one is small, but not a mini. Very thick cute little mouse ear leaves.

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Here is a flickr link to my dwarf hosta bed, or most of it anyway, some are out of the frame. I love flickr's notes because it's an easy way to map a garden.

Here is a link that might be useful: my dwarf bed