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Hosta ID Request

6 years ago

I was given many good reasons for sorting out which hostas I own in my other thread, so I'm going to give it a go. I started with my favorite hosta, since it seems fitting that I actually know what it is. After a bit of research, looking at the alphabet, searching Google, banging my head against a wall, looking at more pictures, squinting a bit... well you get the idea... is this one by any chance 'Majesty'? It seems to have many of the features, although I wouldn't call the flowers pale lavender - they seem more white to me.


I'm expecting to be completely wrong, so don't feel bad telling me I missed it by a mile, lol.


Here's the photos, starting with the overall shape of the clump currently:



Here's a baseball cap on the clump for scale:



An individual leaf:


And then, this picture from last July - as you can see, the margins have turned white, and it's in flower in the foreground in front of the mossy rock:



Many grateful thanks for any ID suggestions!

Comments (11)

  • 6 years ago

    In my very humble opinion, it does not look like Majesty which seems to have a much wider margin, coming from Sagae lineage. Majesty seems to have a much more upright dense clump of leaves which is unlike your third pic where the clump seems to cascade. Also when I enlarge you last photo, it seems the flowers are pale lavender, but it is really difficult to see without a closeup. I bet someone in the forum can nail this for you.

    debra

    Jenn thanked djacob Z6a SE WI
  • 6 years ago

    Maybe "silk kimono".

    Jenn thanked jimr66
  • 6 years ago

    Antioch?

    Jenn thanked mikgag Z5b NS Canada
  • 6 years ago

    Geez, I looked both of those up, it could be either one. Does Antioch emerge with those nice yellow margins?

    Jenn thanked djacob Z6a SE WI
  • 6 years ago
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    It's neither of those, as the vein pairs don't match. Antioch has differently shaped flowers.

    Are the flowers fragrant? The reason I ask is that several of the fragrants come up with yellow margins and turn to white in the summer.

    bk

    Jenn thanked bkay2000
  • 6 years ago

    Thanks all! I feel a bit better since it seems like there's a few possible options. I'm sorry, bkay, I never noticed if the flowers were fragrant. I will take note this July.

  • 6 years ago

    Good luck with all that. You will need it. Often a process of elimination. It can take years to positively ID an hosta. I have 2 small/med blues with slight differences and was able to ID one last year as a Halcyon by the bloom time - the other I still don't know - maybe I'll work on that this year! I have a Blue Angel that through process of elimination I decided was BA but I do remain open to it being something else. Once bought a bare-root Gold Standard from Aldi, when it finally grew up years later I looked at 100 photos of GS and could find only 1 photo that looked like mine! It is a GS.

    I have one that looks like your's above. It remains a NOID. So I do hope you ID yours. There can be so many variables and lack of interest in this location and hosta so I never tried. It would be nice to know what it is- besides just Hosta!

    Jenn thanked gardencool
  • 6 years ago

    So what have you narrowed it down to?

    Oh, by the way, there are like 8000 varieties (10 years ago?)!

    Jenn thanked gardencool
  • 6 years ago

    Jenn...I don’t know what that hosta is, but I am absolutely charmed by the glimpses of your garden in these photos. Lots of hostas obviously, and a fern poking up, and an amazing moss covered rock, and a tall ‘summertime’ pot with lovely trailing things. Someone obviously spends a lot of time pulling weeds because there aren’t any! What are the tiny white bell-like flowers just behind the mystery hosta in the first photo?

    jan

    Jenn thanked jan_on zone 5b
  • 6 years ago

    Thank you! I have been doing quite a lot of weeding while stuck at home. We're still on a strict stay at home order in my area. The white bell shaped flowers are leucojum aestiva - summer snowflake.


    Bkay, what do you mean about the vein pairs? I'm not sure I understand.


    I have looked up pictures of "Antioch" and it really looks quite like that in flower...