Liberty is my choice. That hosta makes such a statement!

Put Queen of the Seas in the middle. In my garden,QOTS grows far faster than all of the others. Just my experience,from the ones I grow. Yeah,I know your Atlantis is the biggest in your pics,but I have found that Liberty is very slow growing in my garden,while QOTS is a monster already! Just MHO. Phil

My vote is for QOTS as well, since all of the other hostas going in there will have some form of gold and yellow in the leaves, the large, blue ruffly will look nice and stand out. At least in my mind.

Karen

QOTS should be planted in full shade and is 48" in diameter fully grown. Atlantis can take a good deal of sun and will be 70" in diameter at maturity. I agree that a blue would look good with those colors, but it depends on your space and cultivation needs. Will you be raising the bed in the middle as a means of showing the centerpiece hosta more completely?

Steve

I vote for Atlantis, for sure. Hirao Majesty second.

I can raise the center of the bed. Whichever gets planted in the center can have as much room as it needs and grow right across the tops of the edgers. The inner ring will be Golden Scepter which I find to be the weakest of the three I will be using and is my least favorite of them. They would be the first to be grown over. I can't cultivate anywhere in my yard ever because my shade is from two huge Silver Maples that make it impossible to dig without using a hatchet and pruners.

I had my Ultramarine planted in the circular bed for a few years and my Halcyon and Flemish Sky are both still there. All three of those blues have always held their color well getting a couple hours of early morning sun and about an hour or two of mid afternoon sun. The rest of the time they got full shade.

Atlantis.
Not sure? Look at Margo's again!
Plus, fast grower!

Here is a link that might be useful:

I may have to aquiesce! My Alantis has grown fast,but it only just coming up this year,after being planted last year! My QOTS was planted in 2006. Liberty,while beautiful,is still slow growing for me. Phil

Frank, are you sure those 4 hostas when mature will fit into the 8ft circle? 2 years ago I planted multi-eyed plants of Liberty and Atlantis, both are doing very well, 40 in wide, 22 inch tall, get 2-3 hrs sun, but Atlantis is a little taller and wider. Behind Atlantis I have two Queen of the Seas planted close together, and they are about the same size. Here my Atlantis with QoS behind it. My Liberty is shown in the second of my recent garden posts.

Bernd

I am almost finished with the circular bed. I had to dig out hostas Twilight, Dream Queen, Whirlwind, Halcyon and Flemish Sky, 4 astilbe, white bleeding heart and a columbine and pot them all up this morning before laying out the bed. I did hump the center up 6" with soil since using a ring of the retaining wall blocks would have taken up too much room.

I made the outer ring 6" wide for the Lemon Lime and the two inner rings 12" wide with 36" left in the center.
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Atlantis went in the center. Fourteen Golden Scepter in the inner ring. 28 Golden Tiara in the middle ring. I still have to put in 56 Lemon Lime for the outer ring. My hands hurt for some reason. ;)
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THAT!!!! Is going to be beautiful, can't wait to see it all done.What a great idea,and a lot of planing.Thanks for sharing.
cAROL

Now I just need a few years to zip by.
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It's going to be fabulous!
Gayle