Carnival, Gold Standard, Francis Williams,First Frost and Heatwave are in the most shade. Hopefully they won't mind too much. I decided to put the rest more in the sun for the next year or so, so they can get established. I will probably change my mind a hundred times before they actually get in the ground(though I have to make it quick-like tomorrow!)

They will all be fine with shade. Really, some are more sun tolerant than others, but no hosta really wants deep shade. They all grow slower in deeper shade... they all will grow in deeper shade... usually deep shade means tree root competition, so water is important - but it is for sun-dwellers as well...

Some will look better in less sun - basically anything blue. But I'd consider everything on your list about equal for shade...

discussions of SHADE are problematic ...

full shade can be no sun hitting a leaf.. but with trees limbed up 40 feet.. extremely bright.. to the point where you still need sunglasses ...

or a dank cave ...

sooooo .. how hosta do in your shade... in your yard... is left to you to figure out ...

if we presume white tissue is pretty .. but useless to a hosta, since it does not produce food for the plant.. then it would follow.. that plants with a lot of white can NOT be put in deep shade ... since the white tissue can not help it process the little light available ... to make food .. so that the hosta thrives ....

so as a gross rule of thumb.. try to avoid putting said plants in deep shade ...

ken