Miniature Hostas in THE BOOK OF LITTLE HOSTAS

Growers of miniature hostas have a tremendous new resource in Kathy and Michael Shadrack's The Book of Little Hostas (2010). Their book, however, does not reflect the new criteria for miniature hostas adopted by the American Hosta Society in 2010 -- leaf blade area no greater than about 6 square inches (38.7 square centimeters; no restriction on clump spread). To save myself the added step of checking hostas in TBOLH against the AHS Miniature Hosta List time after time, I put together the document set out below, which extracts from the TBOLH index entries for those hostas that the AHS lists as registered miniature hostas or unregistered miniature hostas.

My sincere thanks to the Shadracks for allowing me to make this list available to other miniature hosta growers. I apologize for the format here; my blogging skills are very limited. If you want the document in a two-page PDF file, feel free to e-mail me at JMSinKY@aol.com and I will be happy to send that to you.

MINIATURE HOSTAS INDEXED

IN THE BOOK OF LITTLE HOSTAS (2010)

Compiled by John M. Spangler

miniaturehostas.blogspot.com

August 19, 2011

Extracted, with the kind permission of the authors, from Kathy Guest Shadrack and Michael Shadrack, The Book of Little Hostas (Portland, Oregon: Timber Press, 2010.) Copyright © 2010 by Kathy Guest Shadrack and Michael Shadrack.

115 of the 270 hostas indexed in The Book of Little Hostas (2010) are listed on the American Hosta Society’s 2011 AHS Miniature Hosta List (June 20, 2011) – 97 of the 115 as “AHS Registered Miniature Hostas” and 18 of them as “AHS Unregistered Miniature Hostas.”

Indexed AHS Registered Miniature Hostas

H. ‘Academy Verdant Verge’ 77

H. ‘Alakazaam’ 119

H. ‘Awesome’ 120

H. ‘Bitsy Gold’ 20, 74, 96

H. ‘Bitsy Green’ 20, 96

H. ‘Blue Cadet’ 13

H. ‘Blue Mouse Ears’ 18, 120, 168, 193

H. ‘Blue Mouse Ears Supreme’ 137, 193

H. ‘Cameo’ 2, 4, 92, 190

H. ‘Carrie Ann’ 97

H. ‘Cat and Mouse’ 121, 193, 195

H. ‘Cheatin Heart’ 61, 190

H. ‘Cherish’ 122, 190

H. ‘Cody’ 22, 97

H. ‘Collector’s Choice’ 122

H. ‘Cookie Crumbs’ 123

H. ‘Country Mouse’ 138

H. ‘Daisy Doolittle’ 16, 17, 107

H. ‘Dawn’ 124

H. ‘Dim Sum’ 19

H. ‘Dixie Chick’ 80

H. ‘Dragon Tails’ 34, 150, 195

H. ‘Elsley Runner’ 25

H. ‘Faithful Heart’ 17, 190, 191

H. ‘Frosted Mouse Ears’ 139, 194, 195

H. ‘Gaijin’ 98

H. ‘Gold Drop’ 43, 99

H. ‘Gosan Gold Midget’ 22

H. gracillima 11, 19

H. ‘Green Eyes’ 94, 100, 106

H. ‘Green Mouse Ears’ 193

H. ‘Green with Envy’ 62, 116

H. ‘Ground Sulphur’ 11

H. ‘Haku Chu Han’ 87

H. ‘Hidden Cove’ 82

H. ‘Hideout’ 157

H. ‘Holy Mouse Ears’ 63, 194

H. ‘Hope’ 18, 24, 108, 190

H. ‘Iced Lemon’ 101, 191, 193

H. ‘Illicit Affair’ 127, 190

H. ‘Imp’ 108, 195

H. ‘Itsy Bitsy Spider’ 135

H. ‘Kinbotan’ 140

H. ‘Lakeside Baby Face’ 65

H. ‘Lakeside Cricket’ 109

H. ‘Lakeside Down Sized’ 127

H. ‘Lakeside Elfin Fire’ 166

H. ‘Lakeside Little Gem’ 191

H. ‘Lakeside Scamp’ 157

H. ‘Lakeside Small Fry’ 166

H. ‘Lakeside Zinger’ 110

H. ‘Lemon Delight’ 191

H. ‘Lemon Frost’ 95, 101, 191, 192

H. ‘Lemon Lime’ 94, 101, 190, 191

H. ‘Lemon Sorbet’ 191

H. ‘Lime Fizz’ 128

H. ‘Lime Meringue’ 191

H. ‘Limey Lisa’ 110, 178

H. ‘Little Bo Peep’ 66

H. ‘Little Caesar’ 141, 148

H. ‘Little Jay’ 35, 129

H. ‘Little Wiggler’ 19

H. ‘Little Willie’ 167

H. ‘Little Wonder’ 17, 85

H. ‘Margie Weissenberger’ 142

H. ‘Masquerade’ 16, 22

H. ‘Medusa’ 106, 141

H. ‘Minnie Bell’ 67

H. ‘Mouse Tracks’ 194, 195

H. ‘Muffie’ 143

H. ‘O’Harra’ 102

H. ‘Ops’ 68

H. ‘Pandora’s Box’ 13, 106, 144, 190

H. ‘Pixie Power’ 167

H. ‘Pixie Vamp’ 68, 195

H. ‘Popo’ 70

H. pulchella 11-13, 18, 21

H. ‘Pure Heart’ 168, 194

H. ‘Rock Island Line’ 165

H. ‘Royal Mouse Ears’ 193, 194

H. ‘Saishu Jima’ 111

H. ‘Shining Tot’ 13, 21, 158

H. ‘Stiletto’ 17, 21, 103

H. ‘Sugar Plum Fairy’ 19

H. ‘Surprised by Joy’ 145

H. ‘Teeny-weeny Bikini’ 112

H. ‘Tet-A-Poo’ 12, 13, 169

H. ‘Thumb Nail’ 22

H. ‘Tiny Tears’ 11, 12, 16, 22, 32, 106, 168

H. ‘Tot Tot’ 13, 22, 25, 169

H. ‘Tweeny’ 89

H. ‘Twist of Lime’ 18, 95, 178, 191, 192

H. ‘Uzu-no-mai’ 17

H. venusta 8, 11, 20, 22, 168

H. ‘Woodland Elf’ 24

H. ‘X-rated’ 25, 154

H. ‘Yellow Eyes’ 100

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Indexed AHS Unregistered Miniature Hostas

H. ‘Cat’s Eye’ 137, 195

H. ‘Chabo’s Unazuki’ 135, 138

H. ‘Change of Heart’ 92, 190

H. ‘Cheesecake’ 24

H. ‘Crepe Soul’ 107

H. ‘Hacksaw’ 81

H. ‘Kitty Cat’ 195

H. ‘Lakeside Zing Zang’ 128

H. ‘Little Stiffy’ 25, 93

H. ‘Manzo’ 136

H. ‘Mouse Trap’ 194

H. ‘One Iota’ 193, 194

H. ‘Orphan Annie’ 144

H. ‘Paradise Puppet’ 86

H. ‘Paradise Sunset’ 111

H. ‘Snow Mouse’ 130, 193

H. ‘Tiny Dancer’ 132

H. ‘Yellow Submarine’ 112