m. Aureomarginata

Powder Blue

Powder Keg

Riviera Sunset

Smash Hit with Goober & Liberty

The King

Winter Snow

YPDB

Peren, all are stunning! You have a good eye for composition.

Paula, I couldn’t stop laughing as I scrolled through the jokes!

Peren, for not taking many leaf pictures, you still have quite a few. My favorites are Hanky Panky, LS Cupcake, Powder Blue, Powder Keg the King!

debra

I took quite a few leaf pictures:

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Arc de Triomphe

Seducer

Komodo Dragon

Wow! Wave Runner!!!

no photos of individual leaves..I never thought to do this! 🤦‍♀️..

this photo shows the leaves well..

a NOID..was here when I moved in..

anyone recognize it?..

Utog, I have Wave Runner and Amalia ear each other in the yard. I actually had them missed labeled. When I finally realized it, I had to write a note to remember which is which! Wave Runner has a dark center with a double light margin and Amalia is a light leaf with a darker margin…… lol

here’ a pic:

Had frost damage

Shadow, love all three of yours…. I am fond of rippled leaves! Love the colors on Seducer as well. A beauty!

Ann, do you think it could be a reverting June to Halcyon??? Not really blue though. Although at certain times it can look green.

debra

debra..a pic that shows the entire plant..I have a June in front with some solid leaves..

but this wasn’t June..was just green and developed a sport (?)..

Ann Kulpa

Bid Daddy

Blue Angel

Guacamole

Holy Mole

Hudson Bay

Majesty

Summer Music

OMG. Way back before digital cameras, I put a h.Wide Brim leaf on the bed of my copier machine and printed a leaf. It looked hand painted with a water color brush, and I wanted to save that and see it when the hostas were dormant. Yes, I too was mesmerized by the beauty of that leaf. Got hooked on hostas. Yes, there's something about a hosta leaf....

-Babka

utog thank you. What a nice thing to say!

Debra you did get a lot of beautiful leaf shots! Wave Runner is simply spectacular and GL BB is wonderful. I really only took a few pics and most were cropped.

Shadow I do like a rippled leaf and you have captured them perfectly.

old_dirt such great pics. I especially like Ann Kulpa & Hudson Bay.

Babka that is a great story. I too have often looked at a leaf and been mesmerized.

Ivory Coast

Snake Eyes

Striptease

Blusher goin down in fall, anthocyanin and transparent back epidermis hanging on.

seedlings

Wildest dreams

in spring, one that looks better as it bleaches

Shadow, love that shot of Snake Eyes. What a terrific leaf pattern!

hosta_maker, those seedlings are so cool!! What are the two pics after Wildest Dreams? Is the first one Guardian Angel? I have always loved those leaves…..👍🏽

debra

Deb

those are a big daddy sport and a mcwilliams streaker. ive got 3 cups full of streakers of that mcwilliams this year. maybe 100 or so.

here is wildest dreams after it bleaches. the jetting shows more.
One that gets better and better later in the seaon.

another pic showing the anatomy of a leaf.
the primary veins and sub veins and the back epidermis are the scaffolding supporting the middle and out layers.

side by side chimera cells in the meristem with some overlap. streakers are randomly organized cells in the meristem and stable plants have united their chimeras.

wildest dreams has some of the most extensive overlap in the transition that i have seen in a white margined stable hosta. the effect is really pretty

Fun to see the leaves up close.

Choo Choo Train

Dream Weaver

Earth Angel

Fragrant Bouquet

Goodness Gracious

Great Expectations

Part 2

Montana Aureomarginata

Night Before Christmas

Yellow River

love all of these leaves ❤️..

A couple of shots to add.

Ambrosia

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Aquamarine

Guardian Angel closeup 5-29-22

I like the puckered leaves the best. And I like the word puckered too.

i have a very large Guardian Angel, I love the leaf pattern. I can't wait until they are up again. It's very windy and lots of rain today, no pips yet but it won't be long now that it's April.

Only a few photos for me. I love to take pictures of the hosta, but there just doesn't seem to be enough time to do everything in the gardening season!

Fruit Cup

Hush Puppie

Lakeside Love Affaire

Frances Williams (maybe)

Snake Eyes

Snake Eyes in the fall

Newhostalady, that pic of (maybe) Frances Williams—- I see the telltale burn. It’s actually a mistake in the breeding from what I’ve read.

debra

debra, " a mistake in the breeding ", interesting I don't think I've heard that before.

According to hugos database frances williams came about as a sport of a seedling. in 1936 it was a big deal to have margined hosta of interest. So it became popular.

…today i would not introduce a plant with that flaw. there have been look a likes that have come after it that dont burn.

From hugos database

Alex J. Summers Distinguished Merit Award 1986 (Caroline Williams).
Purchased by Mrs. Williams out of a batch of H. sieboldiana seedlings at Bristol Nursery, Connecticut in 1936.
Named by G. W. Robinson of the Oxford Botanical Gardens (1963).
20" tall. Light Shade. 50-90% shade.
This yellow edged sport of H. sieboldiana 'Elegans' is always at the top of the popularity list. The heavily corrugated round blue leaves are edged with a wide golden border. The 3' clumps are topped with white flowers in late spring. In areas of low humidity, or with any sun, the gold margin tends to sun scorch.

Old-dirt, that info is from the HL when you scroll down to the bottom of the page. That That’s how I learned about it. It actually says “it has a major fault in that brown areas appear in the gold margin.” (Viktoria Serafin)

debra

My FW which is in a lot of shade still burns if any sunlight hits it directly. It's in the shade of an oak tree and is further protected by a hydrangea on the side and a magnolia on the other side. Still it will burn if I cut back any of the shrubs. The only one that burns even worse in my garden is Linda Sue, a Van Wade introduction named after his daughter. I have replanted Linda Sue 3 times, each in deeper shade and it still burns by July. Linda Sue is a sport of FW. I got my LInda Sue from Wade & Gatton, I doubt that you could find it elsewhere. But its edges burn to a crisp each year. The pictures of Linda Sue in the hosta library must have been taken in very early spring right after the leaves came out since it burned badly even in the shade at Wade & Gatton by early July.

Boy, do I miss Wade & Gatton. Wonderful memories of annual trips, packing a picnic lunch and spending the whole day there. Sigh.

Spilt Milk tonight.

Apparently, the "burn" on Frances Williams is not from too much sun.

Taken from Hostalists.org:

Bill Meyer wrote,
"I don't know how the word 'burn' came to be associated with this, but it is caused by edema - too much water in the leaves on cold rainy days. On the rainy days it looks like it is water-soaked as cells are bursting in the leaves. The next day the water is gone, and a week or so later the dead cells start turning whitish, then tan, then brown. If you go out on a cold rainy day you'll see it in the leaves. It only happens in spring when the leaves are still soft. Ones that do better in a lot of shade may be getting less water from the rain being blocked."