These hostas are given to me by friends. They are something old and common. I have hunch of their names.

Fast grower.

Slow grower, but it getting bigger every year.

Saija

Paula that tree is incredible!

Saija is there any chance you have pics of them (at least the 1st) in flower? There are so many possibilities. The first resembles sieboldiana, it is quite variable.

I only have one NOID, I purchased it as Touch of Class but it isn't. I think I am dyslexic too I didn't notice the leave color was in the wrong position. I think I was waiting for it to mature into Touch of Class. Here are a few pictures from different times of year.

Photo taken in June

Blooming in August

September, just received and planted

September in my garden, in a sunny spot. Medium sized hosta 14-18" tall

Paula - Love the garden center pic. I've come home like that, with the DW buried in plants. She wants to know why I have a truck but put the plants in her lap. Well I don't want them to fall over and get damaged.

Wish I could help with any ID"s above but if I can't name my own, what help am I?

I've been calling this one Royal Standard but thinking it is really Ventricosa. Ya think? Will know better when i see the floweers (if I remember).

I've had this one for many years and just called it small gold, there are a few in HL that look similar.

Another old one I've labeled as Gold Regal but ws never really sure.

One I got from a friend last year, I know it is an old and common one I just called it Vonda Lee after the gal I got it from.

I know I have more NOID's but I guess the old saying holds true for me, "I don't know what I don't know".

old_dirt I was thinking ventricosa too. Getting flower/bud pics would make it clear. Your small gold could be Gold Drop. The flowers look too pale to be Birchwood Parky's Gold.

Saija, such nice blue NOIDS!! Could your second picture be Elegans? As Laurie said, flower pictures can help ID.

Beth, as soon as I saw yours, I thought “that looks a lot like Yellow River from yesterday.” I assume I am wrong as I believe peren would have caught this right away. It’s also a very nice hosta…..

Old_dirt, yours first one is similar to one of mine. I thought it was Ventricosa until realized it doesn’t have the bell shaped flowers for Ventricosa as hosta_maker had indicated it would have. Your 2 golds are very pretty…..Peren may be right about the first one being Gold Drop. Sure looks like the ones in the HL. Could it be Francee? Again, peren is so good at ID she would have suggested these……I’m guessing! ☺️

debra

Old -d looks like ventricosa or lakeside blackmama. the flowers are quite different from rs

royal standard are white and very fragrant.

rest maybe birchwood parkey, gold regal and francee.….maybe ….could be gold drop too …mound size would be smaller

My observation note: flower color can differ slightly with temp. ….the anthocynin in the flower tends to be stronger in cooler temps.

Here are my 3 NOIDS:

Really shiny

the flower, definitely not ventricosa

Next

Flower

one more

Flower

debra

i will take a shot, ...hard to tell with immature plants

lakeside midnight miss

francee

fragrant blue

I had the same thought for Saija’s blue with round leaves as debra..Elegans..

Saija..does it produce lots of seed pods?..

old_dirt..I thought of Gold Drop along with Laurie and debra..I have Gold Drop but no great pics of it..

2 pics of small volunteers..

in back..small green with white margins and a small green with ruffles? piecrust edges?..are both terms proper?..

then in front..a similar small green..I love both of the little green ones but the one in front is my favorite of the two..

it occurred to me that since these hosta are volunteers maybe they aren’t named cultivars?..does that seem possible?..I’ll leave the pics anyway..

is there a cultivar that they resemble?..

Thanks everyone :-) Hearing no objections - I'm going with Ventricosa, Gold Drop and Gold Regal. The last one, after a little more looking on HL I'm wondering if it could be
Undulata Albomarginata?

I think second hosta ( slow grower) is probably Elegans. I have more in other bed and it has many white flowers. And it makes lots of seedpods. I just don’t have picture of that bigger clump of this hosta.

For those who haven't bothered to Google the giant tree In San Marcos, here's the story behind it. It's a fascinating story and in fact is not one tree but 6.....

Pieter

Pieter - Very interesting, thank you.

Debra thank you for the vote of confidence lol! I could go with LS Midnight Miss for your 1st as hosta_maker suggested. Your 2nd looks so different from the pics you posted last year. Any pics of it from this year earlier in the season? I can't recall why you doubted your third was Fragrant Blue since it is a "dead ringer" for it.

old_dirt I think you are correct that it is UA.

Hosta_maker and peren, I doubted Fragrant Blue because I thought the flower was different. I do already have FB and it’s flower is more striped than the other. Now that I read hm’s comment on how temperature can affect flower color perhaps that’s why????
If the shiny one is LS Midnight Miss, I am delighted, again though my flower is not as purple as shown in the HL.
In the past year, others thought that the little one is Francee as well.

Any other feedback?

debra