Donations from a neighbor!

11 years ago

My neighbor gave me two hosta from her well established yard these plants are at least 20 years old. I am guessing they are a common old variety and just wondering if anyone can tell me the names. I feel a need to keep the old varieties with the newer varieties I have. They both are medium sized.

And....

Thanks,

Sherry

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DelawareDonna Zone 7A

11 years ago

Sherry - Here is Ventricosa in bloom! Awesome!!

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mountainy man z8 Ireland
11 years ago
1. Zounds or August Moon

2. Ventricosa

These are guesses.

Denis
DelawareDonna Zone 7A
11 years ago
2, Definitely Ventricosa. The pointed tips are a dead give away.
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sherrygirl zone5 N il
Original Author
11 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago
Thanks Donna and Denis! Looks like Ventricosa is the darker one! I looked it up and it looks good to me! Just checked Denis suggestion and Zounds sounds like a better guess since it sending up a scape now, early for here. Description says August Moon bloom time is mid and Zounds bloom time is early/ mid

Sherry
ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
11 years ago
i wouldnt put much stock in bloom time as indicative of anything ...

e.g. in my z5 MI .. nothing is scaping.. and some arent even done extending completely ... yours look way ahead of mine ...

so how would you add that into scape timing????

what about a real oldie.. golden waffles???

ken
don_in_colorado
11 years ago
Those are nice gifts!
irawon zone 5a Ottawa.ca
11 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago
Sherry, I'm in zone 5 too but in Canada. When I looked at your gold hosta, to me it looked like my Midas Touch. I also have August Moon and Zounds. I took pictures of those 3 hostas for you but noticed that Rosedale Golden Goose also looked similar and was the only one of the four sporting a scape. Being in the US you should have flowering before me. Hope the pictures help.

Midas Touch

Midas Touch leaf

Rosedale Golden Goose

RGG leaf

Zounds

Zound leaf

August Moon

August Moon leaf

Don't know why the pictures are so small but you can single click on them to enlarge.
sherrygirl zone5 N il
Original Author
11 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago
Thanks again for the additional answers! I will check out the new suggestions and watch for bloom colors, maybe that will narrow down the possible ids.

Hey Ken, my Elegans are all sending up scapes now and so is the one new addition. Elegans is an early scaper so I just thought the new one would be categorized as such. Any more thoughts on this?

Oh... And big thanks for the Golden Waffles idea. That could be it! My guess is I won't ever know for sure, just have to enjoy it as noid!

Sherry
ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
11 years ago
My guess is I won't ever know for sure,

==>>> the only way to ever know for sure.. is to buy from a good nursery ... and never lose the label/tag ...

unless they are truly 10 foot plants... with some unique markings to them ... its just near impossible to ID some of these things

true elegans flowers.. should be under the leaves ...

ken