Friday, April 30, 2010

Hosta ‘Secret Treasure’

   I just bought a new hosta ‘Secret Treasure’
   with red petioles and it’s a sport of
   h ‘One Man’s Treasure’ from Jan van den Top.
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Hosta ‘Rosemoor’

I’ve been very busy in my garden for the last days…..but here is a cute hosta which is a present from a wellknown hostaman in Nederland:
Jeroen Linneman in Hostavalley.
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Saturday, April 10, 2010

Hosta ‘Cherry Berry’ flowers

This hosta has very beautiful flowers:

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Hosta ‘Cherry Berry’

Hosta Cherry Berry lance-shaped leaves have yellow to white centres with dark green margins and violet flowers with rosy-red petioles. The name comes from the fall colour of the reddish seed pods.
CherryBerry
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Thursday, April 8, 2010

H. ‘Cinnamon Sticks’ – the petioles

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Tuesday, April 6, 2010

H. ‘Cinnamon Sticks’

Today’s hosta is h. ‘Cinnamon Sticks’.
It’s another hosta with red petioles.
The leaves are heartscaped and it’s a very rare collectors Hosta.
Medium mound size at maturity.
CinnamonSticks
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Monday, April 5, 2010

Hosta ‘One Man’s Treasure’ Petioles

Here you can se the red dots and they are going up at the leaves too!
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Hosta ‘One Man’s Treasure’

A very beautiful hosta with red petioles.
Medium mound size at maturity.
Hosta ‘One Man's Treasure’ has very shiny dark green leaves that are slightly rippled.
The outstanding characteristic of this hosta is the reddish-purple dots that are evident on the tops and bottoms of the petioles.
Good slug resistance.
One Hosta not to be without in any garden.
OneMansTreasure

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Friday, April 2, 2010

H. ‘Little Red Rooster’

Here you can see the beautiful red petioles:
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Hostas with red petioles

I like the hostas with red petioles and I have a lot of them.
Here it’s H. ‘Little Red Rooster, which I got in 1997. The introducer is Danny van Eechaute from Belgium. Please look in my linklist.
LittleRedRooster