You got it! Congratulation, the big one is a beauty! I have a h.'Seducer' I bought last year locally, and it is smaller. When you start with a large plant, the wait to maturity and full satisfaction is so much shorter. I got big ones from Land ot Giants and Glenbrook Farm, and they look really good too. Bernd

Oh, wow! That is a huge plant! Congratulations, DD. When it comes up next spring, it'll practically be full grown. Lol. I have that one coming to me this fall from Hallson's. I can't wait!

Those are really nice plants. I love every picture of Spartacus and when it grows up it will be a big wow too. Seducer is a big wow.

Happy Planting,
Beverly

the seducer looks sickly ....

since you still have the box... send me the plant.. and i will observe it for you for a few years .... and send you back a piece.. should it turn out ok

ken

I'm seduced! I foresee my next hosta. Wow.

LOL Ken!

Don B.

No wonder you're seduced! I passed on Seducer a couple years ago. It was a small plant with a narrow brim. Looks like it changes from an ugly duckling to a swan.

Ken - Actually one of the leaves has a siamese twin - something I've never seen before? So I thought I would send the plant to you to perform surgery.....NAH! NAH! NOT! NOT! NOT!

DD

Very nice plants. The reason you got such a mature Seducer is that it is patented. The nurseries can't cut them for resale...legally. So their loss is your gain. Enjoy!

My Seducer was little when I got it a few years back. First year, maybe second year TC that I bought off of eBay from the diggin dutchman (hostabargains). It's doing really well, even in full sun. Love it.

Karen

Picture taken in mid June:

ken, send me a piece when you get it. Then we can see if it grows well in three states.

I have a special intensive care bed on which I Installed "the clapper"

I teach the hosta to clap when they need water.

Unlike corn, however, they do not have ears, and don't follow instructions well.

so I play a ... tape... in the driveway

^_^ --~

dave

Should also be tested in a bit more of an arid environment. In the West, perhaps. In high elevation. There must be a region like that. No, no, not Utah. Not THAT far West.

Ah! Wyoming!

Don B.

I can attest to it growing well in Ontario. My third growing season with it. When I got Seducer it was only 3 leaves. I was shopping at a hosta nursery and seen it in his show garden and pointed it out and exclaimed "what is that one?" Most money I ever spent on a hosta but it "seduced" me immediately.

Zowie! Looks like a real stunner. I'm looking forward to next year. I'm also going to plant it in a sunny spot in front of my garden. And Dave, I'll have to install one of those "clappers." Don't want this beauty to become dehydrated.

DD

Reminds me of a giant-sized 'Deja Blu' that actually has the white lines nice and pronounced. Hallson Gardens has this? I hope it's not sold out yet...

Don B.

And as an added bonus, Donna....If your 'Spartacus' grows as fast as most others of it's kind do, it'll come up like GANGBUSTERS next spring : )

Don B.