Inniswood (2nd year)

Ice Age Trail - My only"I" and streaker

The hosta are nice...the CAT killed !!

Very nice all. Paula you are awesome.

Independence early season.

Independence

Indigo

Indigo showing heat & drought stress

Invincible and seedling

Itsy Bitsy Spider

Dave and joc, lovely Ice Age Trail. Hope mine looks like that one day. I know I need to prune out the solid blue and I did take out one leaf - so hard to do when it is a new hosta and you just hope it survives. Like you Joc, my only "I" and my only streaker.

Ice Age Trail

I've only got two....so I will post more pics of the two :).

Ivory Queen...when new

Irish Luck, new 2015

Love your Indigo, Laurie!

Love the jokes, Paula! LOL

Off to a slow start in its second year but hopefully will mature nice.

Infatuation 2015

Infatuation 2016

not too many I's,,,,but here they are,,,

Ice Age Trail seedling purchased from a friend,,,Ice Age Trail,,,10 years old and never divided,,,,a slowww grower,,,,

Ice Cream,,,

Illicit Affair,,,,Invincible,,,

Irish Luck,,,new in 2013 and a fast grower,,,

Island Breeze,,,new in 2014

Itty Blue,,,new in 2015

Ivory Necklace,,,,picture doesn't show the awesomeness of this plant,,upright and corrugated,,,

Ivory Queen,,,new in 2016

thanks for looking,,,jill

What nice plants everyone.

Inniswood - late September

Island Charm and it's adorable flowers

Incoming in October - one of the last ones standing

Mctavish, love the flowers on Island Charm!

Newhostaddict: Such lovely Ice Age Trails - the colouring and streaking is particularly nice!

Very nice Everyone!! I'll be looking for Ice Age Trail next. Thanks Paula, glad the cat 'fessed up!

Inspire Greatness ...one of my favorites...supporting Special Olympic Athletes

Young Infatuation...can already see the color of the pets coming into the leaves

Invincible....in bright light

Irish Luck on left Dancing Queen to the right

...a little closer look

Young Ivory Coast

Thanks for looking!

Ice Follies

Irish Luck

Irish luck was the last hosta I bought in 2016. It came without leaves end of October. But from them pictures you're showing I have something to look forward to in spring...and Ice Age Trail will be put on the list...

Iris Frazier-- a branch fell on her in the early season windstorm we had, but she held up well the whole season. Second year in my garden.

Iron Gate Delight--a sweet little fragrant. About one third the size of the mature Guacamole next to it.

mbug, thanks for that picture of Inspire Greatness, I got one at the end of the season, all roots no leaves. I'm excited about seeing it next year!

Kathy, I was thrilled to see that you have Iris Frazier! I first saw this hosta in someone's garden while touring hosta gardens on YouTube several years ago. It was a mature size and absolutely exquisite. I fell in love instantly!!

It really commands attention with its upright growth as well as its beauty....and yours is a lovely example. After staring at your photo my eyes popped when I saw the name following. Can't wait to see it later on this year! I do hope you take a few progression pics of this one throughout this growing season. I'll be looking for one too in the meantime. ;-)

Inspire Greatness is definitely a must-have hosta - not only for its beauty but for its paying forward ----> proceeds towards supporting Special Olympics Athletes. Mbug, yours would make a great poster child for this hosta.

mbug_gw I was going to make pretty much the same comment. Great to see such a superb specimen of Inspire Greatness. How many years have you been growing it?

sandyslopes z5b n. UT and Tiddisolo Wales UK Very, very nice Ice Follies!

zkathy Iris Frazier really caught my eye too. What a beauty.

Everything posted by everyone is terrific. The Alphabet is such a perfect way to help us get through winter.

Would you consider submitting your photo of Inspire Greatness to the Hosta Library, mbug?

Congratulations to all those who have been able to maintain their Ice Age Trail reversion-free. I bought mine with the reversion before I knew better. I'm wondering when would be the best time to divide out the reversion. Barb, when do you plan on doing yours?

Newhostaaddict/Jill how big has your 10-year old Ice Age Trail gotten? I'd like to know whether I should move mine. BTW those are great pictures of Ice Cream and Illicit Affair.

Ice Age Trail between Parhelion on the left and Royal Standard.

Irish Luck, 3 years old.

My brand new Imperial Palace. I hope it overwinters well.

Island Breeze in front of Blue Angel, planted there for lack of a better space.

I think it's supposed to be the same as Volcano Island. Does anyone have it?

Ice Cream -- it's rhizomatous/stoloniforous but hasn't spread very far yet. Have given it more sunshine so it might take off next season. Excuse any spelling mistakes I may have made...I'm new to this addiction!
Invincible. I like this hosta and so do the slugs. It's a good plant to get if you like to spray slugs with ammonia water.... a surprisingly fun activity!

Peren.all, I have the same hostas as you, except for Itsy Bitsy Spider...each one of yours is a perfect specimen. You're shaking my resolve not to buy any more greenies, IBS is such a cutie...what great form!

Such beautiful Invincibles shown above. I call mine Swiss Cheese! I like the shine on the leaves though...I'm considering moving it to a dryer location that the slugs may not like as much. I've used ammonia, diatometious earth and such without much success. Is there anything that has worked for the rest of you?

McTavish, that's a beautiful Island Charm and in bloom to boot. Since moving mine, it has increased somewhat in size but still is not as nice looking as yours.

I enjoyed seeing all the lovely Ice Follies. I just added it to the garden and hope it does as well.

That is such a great compliment coming from you irawon. I think your Hostas and gardens are spectacular! I am sure everyone else here thinks so too!

IBS really is a cutie and a good grower. I have another greenie coming up tomorrow that has impressed me very much, perhaps it is one that you have too. We shall see.

In the past I have used beer in shallow containers under susceptible ones but wait until I see the first slug hole before putting it out, I would not want to attract them if they weren't already there. I do a thorough cleanup in the fall and have had very few slugs. (2 years ago (I think) we had a really cool wet spring and Cracker Crumbs looked like Swiss cheese before I noticed)

Thanks peren, jo, and newhosta.....I've had Inspire Greatness for three years. It has looked great right from the beginning. My Son runs the Special Olympics program for his school district so I think we had an infinity from the get go!

irawon,,,my Ice Age Trail got all the way up to 10 eyes in 10 years,,,

for 7 years it was only 2 eyes,,,

the 8th year it jumped to 10 eyes,,,

the 9th year it dropped down to 4 eyes,,,

the 10th year bounced back to 6 eyes,,,

did move it one time sometime after 2009 when we added more land,,,maybe it didn't like to be bothered,,,

it is a medium size hosta i would say,,,

jill

Thanks, Laurie. You are very kind. I use the crop button of the edit feature in iPhoto a lot to improve the garden. The hostas seem to like that. LOL

Jill, I appreciate the info. Seeing that IAT is a sport of Big Daddy, I was worried that it might get as big. In the event it did, I didn't give it enough room between 2 large hostas that are spreading still. I looked up the parentage of IAT in the Hosta Library and learned that it doesn't produce many streaked seedlings...so you're very lucky to have one.