SACRILEGIOUS!

OUCH!

-Babka

Let them eat cake!

Yikes! The hosta zombies are coming! Next stop pet dogs, cats, hamsters, sweet little guinea pigs. . .oh my!
Noooo, not this kid. . . I love my little seedlings. I keep some and give others away. . sort of an adoption program. . .lol I figure that if they are strong enough to survive full sun and sidewalk cracks maybe I should take another look at them.

This is a montana Mount Daisen sidewalk seedling that I saved a few years ago. . At the time I heard about a person eating the tender volunteer seedlings. . .Just think. . saved from someone's gut. . .shutter. . .

Sidney, I like that seedling a lot. It's got nice color, ruffles, leaf tip twist and white backs. It's worthy of at least a garden name and maybe registration. When was this pic taken? Does the color change during the season?

Steve

No, no, no....SLUGS eat Hosta. I've got a sour stomach just thinking about it. And BTW Sidney, that IS a very nice-looking specimen you have there. Beautiful, in fact.

Don B.
Westminster, CO.

Thank you Steve! I bought Mount Diasen in 2005 and found this seeding under him in 2008. This seedling starts out this color and turns golden yellow. About the very end of August she heads back to a light green. She takes quite a bit of sun. I measured her this year and she was 59" wide and 27" tall. This pic was taken early last year. In spite of her frilly look she really is a tough lady.. . not picky at all either.

Good argument for not eating hosta, Don. . lol. . slugs. . yuck!

Sidney: How about H. "Sidney's Glory"; I can see you feel that way about it! I would if I were you. I view seedlings value by how inclined I would be to see it and buy it, and your "Sidey's Glory" I would not be able to pass up.

Is the use of "N" proper for a garden name or a "not registered" name rather 'N' for a registered cultivar? Or as in your case where parentage seems known, H. 'N' "N". I believe it is.

Les

Wow. .Les, thank you! I started my garden because I needed exercise in my dotter age and walking the roads seemed kind of boring. . lol I didn't know much about gardening when I started and still know very little, but I caught that Hosta Fever and I'm not looking for a cure. hahahaha I've had a lot of fun and met the most wonderful people. I have to admit that this hosta makes me happy when I pass her spot. She just seems happy. Now, I know only a hosta person will not judge me nuts for saying that. . lol (I said that to my husband once and now he calls her the Happy Hosta. . lol)

Thanks, Les and Steve, for your encouragement. I keep a few seedlings because they appeal to me. I guess sometimes we tend to think they wouldn't appeal to someone else but we would like to share them anyway. . just because we do like them. I'm ever amazed at the combination of style, texture, and color a hosta can turn up with. Wonderful plant, our hosta!. . and so forgiving a plant, too. When we plant them wrong they give us time to right that wrong. They're good teachers. . lol

Sidney, that is a beautiful seedling! I can't seem to contact you through the forum. Could you please send me an email?

josh@inthecountrygardenandgifts.com

Thanks :)

Hostas come from China and unlike us fortunate people in the US hunger is not very rare. I remember having Chinese visiting for about 2 weeks at a time at the place I worked. They said when they looked at the snapper turtles, geese and other wildlife around the plant all they could think of what they would taste like.

For several days they enlisted me to try and catch a snapper turtle to make soup in their hotel room. Our guy in China related about how hungry he was with the adopted "family" he was forced to live with when he was seperated from his own mother and father as a teenager. They would search for frogs or anything else edible. They were pretty close to starving often.

Myself I have had such delacacies as chicken legs, duck's tongue, bull frogs, Kimchi, sushi, shashimi (SP?) and a lot of other stuff I could not start to identify. Once I was surprised to learn that the chunk of chicken I was gnawing at was actaully a chicken head with eyes, a beak and all, intact, YUK!

So, given the choice, I would have much prefered hosta to some of the things I have eaten in China and elsewhere. It is probably an equivalent of lettuce or cabbage there.

Jon

Gasp!! :

Kimchi is Korean Sauerkraut, so it is fine.
During trips to China we never really knew what we were eating, but it tasted great. Then in winter they had the heat turned off, so we first warmed our hands at the warm food so we could hold the chop sticks.

Close Bernd, Kimchi is cabbage and spices buried in urns and fermented. It has a far more pungent taste than saurkraut, which I really like. It was a staple for Koreans and provided food throughout the winter. They could not have survived without it. It is an acquired taste. I tasted terrible to be. Give me frog any day. The duck tougues were actually very good.

The only water that was safe to drink in Korea was warm and brown. They would boil barley in the water. When it was hot enough to turn the water brown it was purified and safe to drink or at least safer.

Then there was the hot milk in India. It seems that they would get milk locally and boil / pasteurize it on the train before serving it.

I only got sick once and that was in India. I was offered bacon for breakfast at a company guest house (unusual offer) It didn't look like bacon or taste very good. I was deathly sick. I had a meeting, went on five hour train ride to catch a plane in Mumbai and fly to Paris then to Boston. By the time I got back in the states I felt better, but was I sick. I blame the "bacon" or whatever it was they served me.

Jon

Oh I love naming things.

Sidney, that is a gorgeous plant. You have a great eye for hosta in your "dotage."

I have a couple of suggestions. Don't know the proper etiquette for the AHS, but here are the ideas. Maybe they will inspire an idea for you too.

Yellow Fever (very few Y's so this is a plus)
Golden Fleece (too many start with "Golden" though)
Jubilant Sidney
Hitchhiker Princess
Princess Sidney
Rapunzel's Gold
Sidney's Smiling Dancer

Or even

Yellow Daisen.....which could mean Yellow Great Mountain.

Sidney, that's a very beautiful plant! Good eye!

You are hereby invited to cruise our many seedling beds and flag ones you deem hopefuls. Here's one of the beds:

hh

Jon, I ate Kimchi in Korea, was OK. My mother in Germany made Sauerkraut as you describe in our basement, but it stayed cool, whereas Koreans have their pot on their roof in villages I read. I only got sick once in Asia, in a Chinese restaurant inside the Intercontinental in Seoul, figure that.
Bernd

Bernd,

I have never heard of Kimchi being stored on rooftops, don't believe it is. There are several different Kimchis; Spring, Fall etc and different recipes from different areas. I have had sauerkraut in Germany and here in the US and I like it. Kimchi, not at all.

I know the Intercontinental well. I never stayed there. A couple of times at the Lotte (spectacular) and many times at the Seoul Plaza.

Jon