This was a single pip several years ago, purchased from on line hosta seller, wasn’t expensive. Lost the tag. There is Blue spruce pine cones and soaker hose to guess at size. Unfortunately I don’t remember anything about it’s blooming.

Sherry

Sherry it looks a little like Zipitty Do Dah.

Yep, came with the house, so that's a pretty good guess. Doesn't seem as tall or as corrugated as August Moon, but that's probably due to the Maple Trees nearby.

Steve, I had the same thought as DTeager that yours looks like August Moon. A.M. is an oldie but goodie, so it could be that one.

I'm still staring at the rest of them. I have one I'd like some help with...

I have a large seedling that must have come from the Sagae that it's growing underneath. I like the look of it and am planning on moving it this spring. I went to the HL and Sagae has a very long list of progeny, so it's possible it's been named already. You can see if has some blue to it. Any guesses what it might be? Pic was taken in the spring of its third year.

A little OT, but can anyone ID this new bird that showed up at the suet feeder?

Sandyslopes that looks like a nuthatch.

Red-breasted Nuthatch, to be specific.

tj

I got out my bird guide and it is, indeed, a red breasted nuthatch.

June 15th 2017

I bought 2 with no tags.

July 15th,

I bought the 2 hostas from a local garden center in 2014. I hope you can tell me what I have. It looses its yellow center to green by summertime.

Thanks Sandra

Sandra possibly Fortunei Albopicta.

Here's my NOID, a gift from Omy. The undersides of the leaves are waxy and in the shade it stays bluer then in the sun. Leaves are a good substance. The flower stalks are tall (approximately 24"), one of these plants even rebloomed in October.

Here is a picture as it is coming up

In June

In August

Sunnywood, tsugajunkie, and Donna, thanks for the bird ID. You all saved me a lot of time looking through my bird books. A Red-breasted Nuthatch, how cool!

perren, yours looks similar to pathfinder, loyalist, revolution types

I call the one on the right “Possibly Pizzazz”....but it is possibly something else!

I bought it along with another Hosta that grew up to be Liberty,so this one is probably something fairly common and easy to find. Sorry I can’t find a more mature picture.

jan

the yellows are Fire Islands but the green one on the right is ??..just a bargain without a tag..not fragrant..I love fragrants and check for that when they're blooming..the stems look dark in the pic but they're not special-just green..just an average size so far..

Bill..I have a guess..Powder Blue?

Everything I had was NOID up until a couple of years ago when I started frequenting this forum and suddenly cared about names. Here are a few of my old NOIDs.

This one closest to the wagon wheel came from a piece from my great-grandmother's yard in Indiana.

The big blue one in the foreground is another NOID. It's the "mother" of this one below:

Another NOID (a real monster!) There's another smaller noid in the corner to the right. It's blue with medium-sized leaves.

I have several other NOIDs but no more pics. Next summer I will try to document all my hostas a little better.

Sorry I'm no help with ID'ing, I only have questions. I have a few NOID's and they get put in the least desirable places so they never reach their potential.

This one I have no idea where it came from, possibly a seedling or somehow a baby from Gold Regal which is about 6 feet away. Maybe a better idea as it matures.

This small blue was labeled as Elegans, HA! It is several years old and never seems to spread much or get any larger. Seems to small for Love Pat and not quite Hadspen Blue.

This plain green was sold as Sheila Macqueen but definitely not as SM is a streaker. Seller acknowledge this and replaced it. Possibly a reversion but I can't find any info of its parents.

As I posted in N's, this was sold as Noah's Rainbow but evidently is not. NR is a sport of Green Gold, would i be correct in calling it that?

Paula, Spring can't come soon enough for the majority of us! Although the freeze-thaw cycles seem kinda frequent this Winter and have given us some "warm" days in between the freeze-your-behind-off ones.

Steve Duggins, what are the red flowers in your first pic?

Popmama, LOVE your great-grandma's hosta! I'm generally not of much use with ID, but to me that "baby" looks like Tokudama Flavocircinalis. One of my favs, but my own is still tiny (new this past year).

OldDirt, your blue NOID is very pretty too!

Hey, Paula! Glad to hear you are progressing - and you'll be in the garden long before me so I hope you'll post many pics including the day lilies! :-)

Popmama, the bright one in your last photo looks like Guacamole.

Here is one more NOID. Leaves are thick and it has been growing nice in my garden. Unfortunately I was not home when the plant bloomed so I don't know the bloom color, I am guessing the bloom is white blooming early July. The hosta is about 2' tall and around the same wide.

Popmama, I too would guess tokudama flavocircinalis for your first photo. The blues i would guess Elegans, they throw seedlings pretty well. Just a wild guess that the last smaller blue might be Blue Cadet. It goes to blue-green pretty quick, and puts up a nice flower show when it blooms.

old dirt, your bright blue one, to my eye, does look like it could be Hadspen Blue. Your last two, I think you could assume are reversions.

jan, Pizzazz was registered in '86, and the coloration looks right, but the leaves look maybe too large for Pizzazz? Possibly Robert Frost? I don't have Robert Frost so I don't know if the edges would look that white when it emerges.

Sherry, Zippity Do Dah looks like a good guess from sunnywood.

sunnywood, yours looks like some nursery help figured Papa, and Big Daddy, were the same thing, hehe.

Beth, my first impression would be Green Piecrust...has near-white flowers I believe.

Perren, compare to Royal Tiara, are they the same size?

popmama, the one by the wagon wheel could be Jack Of Diamonds?

I've promised myself that for every NOID hosta that I correctly identify I'll buy myself a bonus hosta (beyond the 30 or so I've already planned on ordering). So far my score is 0. I did however ID the nuthatch...guess I'll get a bird?

I purchased this hosta as August Moon. But, it stays green all season and is not corrugated. It has 5" white flowers but I can't remember if it's fragrant. Could it be plantagenia?

zkathy, I know that one is not Guacamole. The picture is probably not the best for identification. It's a beautiful hosta that looks wonderful in early Spring but gets far too much sun in the rest of the summer and gets all washed out.

Pampered Peeps and Steve, I think the guess of Tokudama Flavocircinalis is probably correct although that Jack of Diamonds is a good match too. But I suspect Tokudama or Frances Williams just because the hosta has been handed down for several generations. It is my favorite hosta. I would be devastated if it ever disappeared so I should probably divide a piece of it this year and plant elsewhere to ensure its survival.

Steve, I think Elegans is probably right as well. I usually refer to it that way but have no tag to prove it. It does make lots of seedlings. I've given away many over the years.

This year, I am going to try to catalog my hostas by taking better pictures and labeling them on the photo. I'm inspired by so many people here on this forum to do a better job!

Popmama, Might your 3rd NOID be Gold Standard?

mae..I have Gold Standard and mine looks like popmama's..

Hi PP, the red flowers are from a geranium our neighbors gave us. Guess they wanted to see more color in our backyard which faces theirs. They are gardeners too, and have said they like all the new plantings we've done since moving here. I'm excited for our 3rd spring since moving in.

Mae, does your noid get any sun? Mine gets afternoon sun from around 2:00 - 4:00, perhaps a little more. Glad to hear it may be August Moon. I almost bought one a couple years ago, but the ones I found looked to have HVX and I read that variety was known to have it in the marketplace.

I would say Gold Standard is probably correct. It tolerates a lot of sun.

Might be Paradigm not to confuse things.

Popmama ....Here is closeup of Tokudama Flavocircinalis. I agree with all of the above who ID'ed TF.

I'm usually not good with ID but Have a few hope someone recognizes.

Still small but seems to retain a nice apple green color

Noid #2....corrugated...blueish.....med/Lg

Noid #3.....Maybe Captain Kurk?

Thanks!!

sandyslopes that is a great looking seedling but I am wondering what else is growing in that area with Sagae. The seedling has a lot of corrugation, maybe an OP seedling with something else?

I have not been able to find any info on Blue Sagae and the list of sports is long. I got part way through.

Steve, my NOID is in sun from about 10-3:00 or so, planted in an area with pavement on 3 sides, landscape cloth and gravel...perhaps some tree roots added in for good measure. It's been hanging in there for about 4 years.

HVX scares me!!! So far I haven't had to deal with it, thank goodness.

mbug, yours are gonna be tough to ID. Any more info you can give, like how long you've had them, where they may have come from? The small apple green could be Lemontini, maybe? Or possibly one of the all gold sports of June, in juvenile form? Your blue-green guy could be so many, Elegans, Bressingham Blue, Wheaton Blue, etc. The last one looks right for Captain Kirk, but...

mae, plantaginea is also referred to as August Lily, so maybe a mix-up there. Also with those large white flowers, seems to make plantaginea likely.

peren.all/ Laurie, thanks for looking. I found that long list daunting and hoped someone might recognize it. The hosta on the slope right above it is Great Expectations. Could it be related to that one instead? Or how far can seeds go? I've got many dozens of hostas in the vicinity. ....Whatever it is I think this seedling looks promising.

Your NOID looks familiar but .... what the heck is it? It's not one I have, but I feel like I've seen it here. Hope someone will get it.

old dirt/ Jerry ...your blue one might be Dorset Blue. Origin: tardiflora x sieboldiana 'Elegans' ...so there's your Elegans in the name, and it's a small.

Found a pic of my Royal Tiara from 2-3 years ago, yours has the shape peren.all, maybe a sport?

StevePA thank you for the suggestion of Green Piecurst for my NOID. MY hosta doesn't have the wavy edges of Green Piecrust. Thank you for the suggestions. I think it is close.

Peren.all I was just looking at pics of Apple Court and thought yours looked similar.

Almost forgot about this one I picked up from Cory's in 2016. It was out in his random Hosta landscape growing partially on the path. I was looking for Dark Shadows, but he didn't have any more and he swears he never planted any near here (and has never had Devil's Advocate). I've been hoping it's a reverse sport of his Cory's Sweetheart and I've been calling it Cory's Surprise (but just to myself). It comes up in the spring with a yellow margin that quickly becomes dark green with a darker center.

In April:

In May:

and August:

Steve D, I would be surprised if that's not Dark Shadows. Vein count, leaf shape, and coloration are spot-on.

BTW that Cory's Sweetheart would be nice to have. Too bad it's not registered to see the parentage.

StevePa I checked out all the sports in the Loyalist, Pathfinder, Revolution family and found Woop Woop which is a Pathfinder sport. It looks like a possibility.

Then I found some Whirlwind sports Cyclone & Oreo Cream. They are also in the running?

Lee I checked out Royal Tiara and read that it is chartreuse & white but there are similarities . The pic you posted looks very much like the coloration of mine so I will continue to explore the sports.

steve duggins I will explore that Apple Court avenue as well. My eyes were going buggy last night so I will continue today. Thanks all.

sandyslopes I think because of the corrugation GE is a possible contender in the gene pool. It is most worthy seedling either way. It will be interesting to see its growth.

Here is another shot of my NOID at the end of June with Gemstone & Curly Fries in front, Summer Squall & Choo Choo Train behind. All the plants are on their 3rd yr. This will hopefully help from a size perspective.

Thanks Steve - that's what I've been thinking about Dark Shadows. Good to hear some confirmation, but it doesn't seem big enough (and I'm hoping I have something unusual). Time will tell if it gets bigger.

Don't know if a pic of a young Woop Woop will help, (but it can't hurt).

Steve Pa6, Thank you for identifying my NOID and also for the correct spelling of plantaginea.

peren, so tough to tell the difference between Woop Woop and Oreo Cream, but either looks about right to me. Just judging by the HL pics.

Happy to help, mae. I'll never claim 100% certainty on these ID's though.

That pic does help steve duggins. Thank you so much.

Thanks StevePa. It used to be a whole lot easier to ID before there were soooo many new intros. I would say you are doing very well in the ID department.

jan_on I am wondering if your possible Pizzazz (which it could be) might be Barbara Ann. My Robert Frost usually comes up with a creamy yellow margin.

Thanks peren.all, Barbara Ann sounds like a possibility. Steve...maybe not Robert Frost....this one has very white edges in spring. It gets a bit cream coloured later, and last year had quite a drawstring effect. I’ll try to document it’s progress this year and post better photos next time!

jan

Jan, what are the other 3 hostas in your pic?

Jan, your comment on “Possibly Pizzazz” with respect to the drawstring effect makes me think you might well have 'Lakeside Kaleidoscope', mine drawstrings every year since I've had it..

Pieter