A few fun fact; gawa means river, did you get that well Ok here we go, sudare means curtains make up of reeds or bamboo, Yoshino is the name of a river in Shikoku, the source of Yoshinogawa, notice gawa, Ok the source of the gawa is Mount Ishizuchi at 6000 feet. Well not at the very top back down 300 meters, (So whatsupwithdat : ) Ken and I went there many years ago, but he may have forgotten because he found his fist love while climbing Mt. Ishizuhi, sake. Why do you think his yard is full of hostas? I think the low alcohol content knocked us both off guard. Notice I labeled the hosta with the wrong name it is Yoshinogawa sadare. Ken is a closet democrat, no no just kidding, do not send your lawyers after me again, I take it all back. Whats up with Marks new book did anyone learn anything from it?? "No" OMG don't tell anyone else its worthless. Ron has his copy over the fire-place, he has candles lite 24 hours a day on either side of it. Ummm au Ummm. Ken can explain that. I can't because I would be kicked off garden web again. Sorry Ron it's all good remember you coined that phrase. I am just pissed that I was not interview as well, my start sputtered out on the way up that mountain, I fell four times, no help from Ken of course, all I heard was a mutter gt ya own dam health insurance.I just said I needed a bandaid whats up with dat.

Is it time to lock up the cough syrup, my head is spinning.

Paul

Paul put quite a good bit of humor on what I was thinking. Spinning INDEED! If our head is spinning READING it, whatsup's head must be positively WHIRLING!

LOVE IT! You absolutely should have been interviewed for the book!! Waiting for Ken to put in his 'two cents' worth.

Just for fun one more.

Fire Island, this hosta is about three years old and growing pretty slow. Its sport Paradise Island, is that the right name, is growing much faster or it is older I don't know. I don't have a clue where this hosta in the pic came from.

I use After the Dead Line spell check and grammer check when I write directly in to these little boxes. What do you call it when you do word processing directly on the web.

Do any of you blog hostas?

I may be slow, but I have some trouble following your communications, whatsup... could you please tell me what your first language is? Sometimes knowing the source language helps me understand the translation into English...

Well I am from the south and you need to read my stuff real slow like, ya know real slow like we talk. We talk slow so we don't insult anyone, like as if we like you and we like being around you, not like y'all do up there talk real fast and the just take off like a bullet. When I go up north people always trying to get away make a dollar kinda thing. I get my feeling hurt real easy when I am in like New York, if someone talks real fast they are well, so you can understand that right. Do ya want to go to Tahiti ? I have a real nice car it would be an easy ride untill we got to well the,,, the water, that maybe a proBLEM I need thinking going on.

this is great..I'm totally down with whatsupwithdat. I'm from Kentucky... and ya'll know whats up with dat... maters and taters ya'll

I have been to French Polynesia (Tahiti and Bora Bora). WAY out there in the ocean, even when you just begin from the Left Coast. They are rather small islands and one could get "rock happy" in a very short amount of time. No hostas there.

-Babka

Ya know its not the place it's who you are with when you get there. I had to divorce my wife over a year ago, so this may have been a left over dream. I don't think I want to go there now. I think Kentucky sounds pretty good, I would also like to see some other states and Canada.
I really do need to lose some of these plants, I put some on ebay but they are moving to slowly. Last summer I drove for two days and ended up in Warren PA. I took some hosts and gave them away to people who would never have known what a hosta was. Funky Monkey sounds like a great little hosta for a road trip, but it sells out so fast and it cost too much.

post up a link to your ebay profile and I'll check out what you've got bro... I might just buy something for the cause right

it was NOT this ken .....

bora bora alum here

ken

Whew, ken! I was really getting worried!!! Thanks for clearing that up for me!! I just couldn't imagine...