I have Prairie Sky, but it is an Echinacea not a hosta. I wonder if some customer had picked up the tag from an echinaacea and just stuck it somewhere in a hosta....

Here is a photo of the very frist bloom on Prairie Sky.... the colors are improving daily, if you want I will get another photo today. It is sort of a melon orange and pink, quite pretty!

Plant Delights lists a "Prairie Sky" that they say is one of the bluest hostas that they sell. Pic looks beautiful, but no I don't have one. Wish I did, though. lol.

I bought Prairie Sky last summer from Shady Oaks Nursery (through our local hosta society). It's a nice powdery blue color and is doing well. I just went on their website and they have it for sale (hostahosta.com).
Vivian

I bought it locally about a month ago when cashing in a gift card from a favorite garden store. It is very pretty.

The tag says it was grown in Canada, supplied by Heritage Perennials. Height 14-16", width 31-35".

Also, "Plants form sturdy mounds of foliage, topped with lily-like blooms. This midsized selection has thick, rounded powder blue leaves that hold their colour extremely well. Soft lavender flowers appear in July."

I was surprised to read it was grown in Canada, as my hosta came with a tag saying "PROPAGATION PROHIBITED BY LAW. This plant not to be sold without accompanying label". This hosta was bred by Hans Hansen of Shady Oaks Nursery in Minn., and has the patent USPP#17309. I went to the Heritage Perennials website and it does state about Prairie Sky that "unlicensed propagation prohibited"...so I guess they have purchased the license to propagate it. Interestingly enough, several other websites offer this hosta for sale without saying anything about it being patented. Hmmmm....
Vivian

Vivian - the website hostahosta.com belongs to Green Hill - Bob Solberg - not Shady Acres. Hans Hansen patents almost all if not all his hostas. I'm sure everyone selling Prarie Sky is buying trays of plugs from Shady Oaks where Hans works. I'm sure they all come with the same tags.

I bought Prairie Sky from Naylor Creek in 07.

Wow - all helpful info and of course the vendors you've cited who have it are the ones I didn't get to - I think I checked five or six and gave up after I didn't see it in the H.L. Guess that's not gospel. It is so BLUE - it's become my favorite blue because it amazing - even my DH remarked about it and he's not into any of this. Well I feel much better now. I do remember the stuff about Canada - it was actually told to me by the nursery owner. I have to buy more SOON.

But I still want to know what would eat the edges only - of this ONE hosta - it can't be the age - I know the younger and more tender are more delicious - because I have smaller, younger and more tender all over the place. I'll take a pic this weekend - I've looked for cutworms and can't find any. Could this be a bee or wasp and if so, why this one hosta?
Very odd.

Thanks to all for the help.

Westy

But I still want to know what would eat the edges only"
westy

This has to be cultural, not a pest?

I purchased Prairie Sky in July '06 from a dealer here in Iowa. Love the unusual shade of blue.
Marlene

I got 'Prairie Sky' last year at Hornbakers.
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Janet

It's really pretty with the Lamium!!! That's where I'm going to move it - I have it in a 'temporary' home right now - I couldn't plant sensibly at the end of the Summer last year (rotator cuff surg) so I had to just dig fast and put about 20 hostas ANYWHERE and that was one of them. Now that I think of it I think I got this at Hornbaker's too!!!! Last year.

The Lamium is the perfect backdrop for it. Why is yours twice as big as mine. Is it in total shade - mine is.

EO - I don't know what you mean by 'cultural' - pls explain.

Westy

Westy, I was thinking maybe that's where you got it. I remember you telling me of your trip there.

Here's what mine looked like last year when I first planted it.
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It's planted under a silver maple, of all things, so I was even surprised at it's size this year. It gets some morning sun, but then mostly shade the rest of the day. I don't fertilize, but last fall I put a good amount of shredded leaves over this area.

Janet

Cultural; water, heat, sun, moving from low light to high light. See my post on moving from low light to high light.

There isn't a pest that attacks one hosta, or most of the leaves on one plants. Pest will be random?

Spotted one at nursery this morning, & brought it home. When it grows up a bit, it'll be fun to compare its colour with Dorset Blue, Blue Jay, Blue Ice, Halcyon, El Nino, and Pewterware, Not to mention my many Blue Jay seedlings.