Sing-along Messiahs in the Lexington, Ky. Area

Not a sing-along but similar -- a flash mob in action. Enjoy! :-)

Today I am on a quest to find a sing-along Messiah in the Lexington area. I still remember Dr. George Zack conducting one with the Lexington Philharmonic downtown at Victorian Square from a cherry-picker in the mall's central area with we singers positioned on various levels and the orchestra on the main floor -- it was so much fun!
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The Christmas Season isn't complete for me without attending a performance of Messiah. Standard orchestral performances are great -- I will never forget hearing Cleveland's Baroque ensemble Apollo's Fire doing Messiah on period instruments in Akron with a dramatic tenor, but actually joining in the singing of Handel's great Messiah choruses adds an even more profound level of enjoyment to experiencing this choral masterpiece.
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Here are Lexington-area (well, within easy driving distance) performances of sing-along Messiahs for this year that I have discovered so far (as of Tuesday, November 29, 2011, at 8:00 a.m.) --

• Sunday, December 4, 2011, at 3 p.m., at Georgetown College's John L. Hill Chapel, 400 East College Street, Georgetown, KY: Messiah Sing, with the College's combined choirs. -- (Web item)
• Tuesday, December 6, 2011, at 7:30 p.m., at Our Savior Lutheran Church, 8305 Nottingham Parkway, Louisville, KY: 22nd Annual Community Messiah Sing-Along. -- (Web item)
• Saturday, December 17, 2011, at 7:30 p.m., at Christ Church, 5165 Western Row Road, Mason, OH: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and May Festival Chorus, James Bagwell, conducting, with soloists. General admission tickets are $25 for adults, $10 for children, and $12 for CSO Ignite (members ages 18-30 and full-time students. For tickets and information: (513) 381-3300 or visit www.cincinnatisymphony.org -- (Web article) 

Check out this wonderful article, "The Glorious History of Handel's Messiah," from Smithsonian.com 

Mini List to TBOLH featured in The Hosta Journal Online

Happy Thanksgiving, folks! This morning the November 2011 issue of The Hosta Journal Online was published, and my list of AHS-recognized miniature hostas in The Book of Little Hostas (2010) was one of the featured items in Warren Pollock's "This and That: 2011" column.

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Thanks, Warren, for including the list and this blog in your column.

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From Warren Pollock’s “This and That: 2011” column, The Hosta Journal Online, Nov. 2011. (Accessible to members of The American Hosta Society at the society’s website, www.americanhostasociety.org.)

Cross Reference Available of AHS-Approved [Mini] Hostas in Shadracks’ The Book of Little Hostas John M. Spangler, Versailles, Kentucky, is a mini (miniature) hosta buff. He finds Kathy Guest Shadrack and Michael Shadrack’s book, The Book of Little Hostas (Portland, Oregon: Timber Press, 2010) particularly helpful. Numerous others do too. Because the book treats more than just AHS-recognized miniature hostas – which are John’s primary interest, he found he was repeatedly cross-checking hostas mentioned in the book with the AHS Miniature Hosta Lists, posted on the AHS and Mini Hosta Forum Web sites, to see if they are AHS-recognized miniatures. To avoid having to do this again and again, he decided to extract from the book’s index those entries recognized as AHS Registered Miniature Hostas and AHS Unregistered Miniature Hostas. It fits on the front and back of a single sheet of paper, which he keeps folded inside the book and can use as a bookmark. The Shadracks kindly gave permission to make this extract from their book’s index available to others. John has posted the document on the Mini Hosta Forum in pdf format. You’ll find it in the Forum’s “Files” on the left sidebar. If you want a copy as an attachment to an e-mail message, contact him at jmsinky@aol.com and he’ll send it to you. You might also be interested in John Spangler’s blog: www.minia­turehostas.blogspot.com. Check it out. Postscript: I was curious about John’s e-mail address. “It [is] supposed to be ‘JMSinKY,’” he told me. “My initials are JMS and I live in Kentucky, so the idea was ‘John M. Spangler in Kentucky’ shortened. But it becomes, when all lowercased, ‘jmsinky’, which often elicits questions and chuckles.” By the way, if you were wondering how Versailles, near Lexington, where John lives is pronounced, it is ver-SAILS, different from the French city of the same name.

Director's Autumn Plant Walk, Yew Dell Botanical Gardens

Eryngium planum, Sea Holly
Source: Missouri Botanical Garden website

On Wednesday of this week (October 13, 2011), I drove over to Yew Dell Botanical Gardens at Crestwood, Kentucky, a little northeast of Louisville, for an autumn plant walk with the Gardens' executive director, Dr. Paul Cappiello, whose plant walks and programs I have been attending for several years now both at Yew Dell and at Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, where he was Bernheim's horticulture director prior to becoming the founding executive director at Yew Dell in 2002.

It was a really nice early fall evening for the hour-and-a-half plant walk; the weather was great, and the walk ended with a spectacular sunset. Only three of us were there for the program (myself and two delightful ladies, who were much more knowledgeable about plants than I am), but that just meant that we had more time to ask Paul questions -- and we did. I enjoyed the walk very much.

Here are the names of a few of the many plants that we looked at (I took some notes on ones that were of particular interest to me), with comments and links to pictures of them here on the Web (to be added as time permits):
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• Aster 'Lady in Bloom' -- I may have this name wrong; Googling yields 'Lady in Black."
• Muhlenbergia 'Flamingo'
• Dwarf Solidago 'Golden Fleece'
• Eryngium, Sea Holly -- This plant struck my fancy on an earlier visit to Yew Dell, and I was glad to have the opportunity to ask Paul about it; it's a beauty -- compact, totally pale blue with a bloom that looks like that of a thistle. I definitely want to grow this charmer.
• Cyclamen coum and Cyclamen hederifolium -- I asked Paul how these would do as companion plants to my miniature hostas (he thought well) and may try them in one of my beds; they have differing blooming periods so there would be some color among the hostas for many months. The Shadracks discuss C. coum in their The Book of Little Hostas (2010), at page 177,  noting "They need to be in drier shade, which is usually easy to provide."
• Hosta 'Pineapple Upsidedown Cake' -- I have this medium-leaved hosta in my home garden, having purchased it at the auction at the 2011 Fall Hosta Forum last month. My specimen is very straggly and with very pale leaves, because it gets too much sun, I suspect; Yew Dell's plants were much more compact and colorful. Next year I will relocate my plant's pot and see how it does for me with less sun.
• Hosta 'Garden Treasure' -- Paul indicated that this hosta cultivar was a very good performer at Yew Dell this season; when I mentioned this at our Hostas of Kentuckiana meeting for October several members echoed his enthusiasm for it. Next year I want to try it out in a deck pot to see how it does for me.
• Rohdea japonica, sacred lily -- This plant was a Theodore Klein Plant Award winner in 2006 and is a favorite of my friend, Cornelia Holland, president of the Middle Tennessee Hosta Society.
• Angelonia angustifolia 'Wedgewood Blue' -- There was a good-sized bed of this plant that was in full bloom; it was still quite a sight this late in our growing season -- heat and drought tolerant.
• Buddleia 'Purple Wave'
• Salvia 'Black and Blue'
• Aster laevis 'Bluebird'
• Solidago shortii, Short's goldenrod -- one of the rarest plants in the world.

AHS 2012 National Convention Website Opens

The website for the 2012 American Hosta Society National Convention is now up and running. The convention is being held in Nashville, Tennessee, from June 13 to 16, 2012, and is hosted by the Middle Tennessee Hosta Society (of which I am a member).
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The convention has an outstanding program including presentations by leading hosta authorities, an AHS-accredited hosta show, tours of local hosta gardens, and much more. Be sure to check out the excellent video about the convention.
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It is going to be a great, fun-filled convention. Hope to see you there!

Dividing Perennials with Ann Mattingly

Yesterday evening (Wednesday, September 28) I drove over to Yew Dell Botanical Gardens for a program on dividing perennials presented by Yew Dell's Garden Manager, Ann Mattingly. It was a perfect early fall evening to be out in the gardens, and the five of us there had a very good time learning from an expert in a relaxed, hands-on class. (Actually there were six of us there for the presentation -- Persimmon, Yew Dell's friendly feline, joined us for most of the program!)
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Ann did a great job and fielded a multitude of questions from all of us, not just about plant division but about many other gardening points that we raised. The hour and a half passed all too quickly, and we left as the sun was providing us with a truly awesome sunset with divisions from the following plants:

• Siberian Iris 'Lady Vanessa'
• Sedum 'Matrona'
• Hosta 'Lemon Lime'
• A very special fourth plant whose name must remain cloaked in mystery -- how's that for a teaser? :-) My lips are sealed!

I was very happy to have a miniature hosta included in the group, and so H. 'Lemon Lime' (R. Savory, 1977, a registered miniature-leaved hosta, leaf size 3 x 1 in., clump size 7 x 5 in.) is now a new addition to my collection. The others I will share with friends who have more room in their gardens than I do.
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Yew Dell is a very special place, and I encourage local readers of this entry to visit there and support it by becoming a member. For me, it is always well worth the drive over and back to stroll around learning new plants or to participate in one of its excellent educational programs. I'll be going back next month for the director's autumn plant walk.

Now More than 50 Hosta Varieties in My Garden

My blog entry listing the varieties in my hosta collection has been updated to add the seven new cultivars that I have acquired in my current trip to Ohio and Pennsylvania, which has included attending the 2011 Fall Hosta Forum.


The new additions are --

H. 'Appletini' (registered miniature-leaved)

H. 'Curly Fries' (registered miniature-leaved)

H. 'Hideout' (registered miniature-leaved)

H. 'Hush Puppie' (registered miniature-leaved)

H. 'Little Stiffy' (unregistered miniature-leaved)

H. 'Pineapple Upsidedown Cake' (registered medium-leaved)

H. 'Swamp Thing' (registered medium-leaved)

Plus a very nice specimen of H. 'Popo' that I will give away to a friend.


And the trip isn't over yet!  lol


(Update. 9/18/2011 at 4:30 p.m.) Three more to add from a stop at Cahoon Nursery in Westlake, Ohio:

H. 'Cody' (registered miniature)

H. 'Tiny Tears' (registered miniature)

H. venusta (registered miniature species)

(Update. 9/20/2011 at 3:45 a.m.) There would have been even  more but I held off on stopping at Wade and Gatton Nurseries at Bellville, OH (just off Interstate 71), on the way home yesterday afternoon because of the constant rain and fog that I was experiencing. Tonight is the Hostas of Kentuckiana plant swap and reduced price sale, so never fear the collection will keep right on growing!


(Update. 9/21/2011 at 8:45 p.m.) Four more to add from yesterday evening's HOK plant swap and reduced-price plant sale:

H. 'Big Daddy' (registered large-leaved)

H. 'Fragrant Bouquet' (registered small-leaved)

H. 'Limey Lisa' (registered miniature-leaved)

H. 'Masquerade' (registered miniature-leaved)

Also picked up a Helleborus orientalis (Lenten rose) seedling, my first hellebore.

My First Clump Division

Early yesterday evening I did my first hosta clump division. Later this month Hostas of Kentuckiana, our local hosta society based in Louisville, is having a plant swap at its monthly meeting. In order to have some plants to exchange, I decided to divide my H. 'Silver Halo.' Below are photos showing the one plant that I started with, the five divisions that it yielded, and those divisions repotted.

The process was a lot easier than I anticipated, but I will feel a lot  more comfortable when I have done more dividing. Most of my hostas are miniatures so it was nice having a larger specimen to work with first.

My H. 'Silver Halo' before being divided.

The five resulting divisions.

The divisions repotted as five plants.

Visit to Cheekwood, 27 August 2011

Last month before leaving Nashville after attending the Middle Tennesee Hosta Society's August meeting, I spent several delightful hours at Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art. Here are some pictures from my visit, mainly from Cheekwood's Japanese Garden. In addition to wandering the grounds, I had a wonderful lunch at Cheekwood's fine restaurant and purchased several items (including a neat set of stainless steel miniature plant tools) from its gift shop. It was a great end to a very enjoyable trip.
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Here is the Cheekwood website's description of the Japanese garden there:
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Japanese Garden, Shomu-en
Shomu-en, the pine-mist garden, is a place of quiet and meditation, a refuge from the outside world. The lantern at the gate is a symbol of enlightenment, and the gate always stands open as a sign of welcome. The garden is in four parts. The roji, or crooked path, slows your progress and invites observation. Then you pass another gate into the dark bamboo forest, intended to turn the mind inward. A third gate takes you into a grassy courtyard with gingkos, maples, and a carved basin where water falls from a bamboo pipe into a rock basin. Ascending the wide steps and entering the pavilion, a great body of water, symbolized by raked gravel, comes into view. It contains granite islands and is surrounded by stunted pines seen on a distant shore. A stream comes down the mountainside and graceful maples complete the peaceful scene. Rest here and let your mind travel through this island of tranquility.

Hostas are native to Japan, Korea, and China, and there were a number of very nice specimens to see at Cheekwood, both in the Japanese Garden and in other areas.
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Selected Index to THE HOSTA JOURNAL

This blog page, created August 30, 2011, is a continuing entry that will be updated from time to time. It was last updated on August 30, 2011.

It was a big disappointment to find out in an e-mail exchange with one of America's authorities on hostas that there is no index to the American Hosta Society's The Hosta Journal and that this fine publication is not included in any of the standard periodical indexes. He stated that these conditions are "deep sore spots among [AHS] members[,]" and I certainly share in that pain.

I do not have the time or expertise to undertake that task comprehensively myself, but this posting to my blog will serve as a selected index on topics of particular interest to me.

SELECTED INDEX TO THE HOSTA JOURNAL

covering vol. 41, no. 1 (2010) to date

American Hosta Society -- National Display Gardens

• "Rotary Botanical Gardens' Hosta Hollow" (Janesville, Wisconsin) by Mark Dwyer. 41:1 (2010) 64-65

American Hosta Society -- Popularity Polls

• 2009 results. 41:2 (2010) 76-78

Book Reviews

• "Hosta Lists" by D. A. Rawson (book review by Patrick L. Coleman). 41:1 (2010), 11
• "Hostas: An Essential Guide" by Richard Ford (book review by Andy Marlow). 42:1 (2011), 56
• "The Book of Little Hostas: 200 Small, Very Small, and Mini Varieties" by Kathy Guest Shadrack and Michael Shadrack (book review by Jim Hartmann). 42:1 (2011), 57

Garden Photography

• "Pictures with an iPhone" by Alex Waterhouse-Hayward. 41:2 (2010), 54

Hostas -- Cultivation -- Wintering Over

• Q & A column. 42:1 (2011), 68-70

Labels

• Q & A column. 41:1 (2010), 67-72

Miniature Hostas

• "Sports of H. 'Baby Bunting' " by Tom Micheletti. 42:1 (2011), 47-49

My trip to Nashville to hear Bob Solberg

(10:00 a.m.) I will be leaving shortly to drive to Nashville to hear Bob Solberg speak at this month's meeting of the Middle Tennessee Hosta Society. Bob is the owner of Green Hills Farm in Chapel Hill, North Carolina; a former President of the American Hosta Society; a former editor of AHS's The Hosta Journal; and a hybridizer of hostas for southeastern gardens. It will no doubt be well worth the trip, and I will be blogging about it here in this entry.

In addition, I will get to see many of the fine folks that I met last month attending the AHS Judges' Clinics I and II that were held there just outside Nashville. I had such a good time that I even joined their local hosta society!

The Middle Tennessee Hosta Society is hosting next year's AHS Annual Convention at Nashville. HOK members should certainly plan on attending this event. Check out the neat video that MTHS has up on its website describing the 2012 AHS Convention. The convention theme is "Hostas, Friends, and Music," particularly appropriate for Nashville.

Well, enough said for the moment! I still have to pack and get on the road. More to come later. :-)

To be continued.

H. 'Raspberry Sundae' featured in FINE GARDENING

I picked up a copy of the September/October 2011 issue (No. 141) of FINE GARDENING today and found that H. 'Raspberry Sundae' is spotlighted in the "Plant Picks" section, at page 21, under the headline "A hosta with more to offer."

Here's what the magazine says in responding to a question from a hosta lover in Ohio about whether "there [is] anything new in [his] favorite group of plants":

'Raspberry Sundae hosta (Hosta 'Raspberry Sundae, Zones 4-9) has beautifully variegated leaves, but that's not what sets it apart. The base of the leaves, leaf stalks, and flower stems are all a striking burgundy color. Add to these unique traits the dark amethyst-purple flowers that appear in mid-summer and you get a hosta that will have even the savviest gardener gasping in awe. Like most hostas, 'Raspberry Sundae' is low maintenance, requiring a site in partial to full shade with moist, well-drained soil. Terra Nova Nurseries (the company that bred this plant) worked for many years perfecting the combination of variegation and red pigmentation in the foliage. This beauty was new in 2011, so keep your eyes peeled for it next year at your local nursery.

This hosta is not yet in the Hosta Registry, and the breeder's plant description does not give its leaf size. The clump size (9 x 21 in.) suggests that it is probably not a miniature hosta, but it is certainly a striking plant.

The photo shown here is from the Terra Nova Nurseries website and is the same one that appeared in FINE GARDENING.

I wonder if there are miniature hostas that have red or purple coloration of their leaf bases, leaf stalks, and flower stems. Perhaps some reader of this post will leave a comment to share their knowledge on that question.

Clump Sizes for My Hostas

The clump or mound size of a hosta plant is typically described by height and width at maturity. In 2010, the American Hosta Society eliminated clump height as a criterion for miniature hostas; the current standard is that a hosta is a miniature hosta if its leaf blade area is no greater than about 6 square inches (38.7 centimeters), with no restriction on clump spread.

Knowing potential clump size is still important in deciding where to place a hosta in the garden in order to avoid having to move it prematurely when it outgrows the space that has been set aside for it. Hosta retailers often designate and group their stock by clump size at maturity rather than by the leaf-size categories used by the American Hosta Society in classifying hostas.

Right now (22 Aug 2011) I have several new hostas waiting to be planted in the garden or in containers. This entry will set out the clump sizes found for these hostas and subsequent purchases; as time permits, I will go back and add plants already in my collection.

In the list set out below, I have separated information about clump size for my AHS-listed registered and unregistered miniature hostas from the other hostas in my collection. The dimensions are given in the format "height x width" in inches.

CLUMP SIZES FOR JOHN SPANGLER'S HOSTAS

Last updated August 22, 2011

Abbreviations for References Cited: PGTH = Timber Press Pocket Guide to Hostas (2007); TBOLH = The Book of Little Hostas (2010); TH = The Hostapedia (2009)

AHS Registered Miniatured Hostas

H. 'Bitsy Gold' -- 7 x 18 in., fairly fast growing and loose (TBOLH 96); not given in PGTH; 8 x 21 in. (TH 109)

H. 'Blue Mouse Ears' -- 9 x 12 in., moderately fast-growing, fairly upright and loose (TBOLH 120); 6.5 x 11 in., an open mound of horizontal leaves (PGTH 51)

H. 'Cameo' -- 4 x 8 in., tight, with a moderate growth rate (TBOLH 92); not given in PGTH

H. 'Cherish' -- 8 x 12 in., slow-growing, compact (TBOLH 122); not given in PGTH

H. 'Cotillion' -- not treated in TBOLH; not treated in PGTH

H. 'Country Mouse' -- 3 x 6 in., slow growing and flattish (TBOLH 139); [dimensions not given] "should become a mini-sized mound (TH 206); 2.5 x 9 in., a dense irregular mound (PGTH 64)

H. 'Dixie Chick' -- 6 x 15 in., fast-growing, flattish (TBOLH 80); not treated in PGTH

H. 'Frosted Mouse Ears' -- 7 x 12 in., slow growing and flattish (TBOLH 139); not treated in PGTH; [dimensions not given] small, dense mound (TH 320)

H. 'Gaijin' -- 6 x 12 in., fast growing and dense (TBOLH 98); not treated in PGTH; 6 x 15 in. (TH 327)

H. 'Green Eyes' -- 5 x 12 in., fast-growing, dome shaped (TBOLH 100); not treated in PGTH

H. 'Green Mouse Ears' -- not given in TBOLH; not treated in PGTH

H. 'Holy Mouse Ears' -- 6 x 12 in., a slow-growing, flat rosette (TBOLH 63); not treated in PGTH

H. 'Hope' -- 5 x 10 in., neat, with a slow to moderate growth rate (TBOLH 108); not given in PGTH

H. 'Itsy Bitsy Spider' -- not given in TBOLH; not treated in PGTH

H. 'Lakeside Elfin Fire' -- 5 x 10 in., loose and fairly upright (TBOLH 166); not treated in PGTH; 4 x 10 in. (TH 529)

H. 'Lemon Frost' -- not given in TBOLH; not treated in PGTH; 10 x 24 in. (TH 552)

H. 'Masquerade' sport -- [for 'Masquerade':] not given in TBOLH; not treated in PGTH

H. 'Pandora's Box' -- 8 x 12 in., slow-growing, dense (TBOLH 144); 4 x 10 in., a diffuse mound

H. 'Popo' -- 7 x 18 in., dense and fairly fast-growing (TBOLH 70); 7 x 15 in., a dense mound (PGTH 151)

H. 'Slim and Trim' -- not treated in TBOLH; not treated in PGTH

H. 'Stiletto' -- 12 x 24 in., fast-growing and tall (TBOLH 103); 12 x 32 in., a low, cascading, dense mound (PGTH 175)

H. 'Surprised by Joy' -- 6 x 12 in., loose and fairly fast-growing (TBOLH 145); not treated in PGTH

H. 'Teeny-weeny Bikini' --4 x 9 in., low and compact (TBOLH 112); not treated in PGTH; 4 x 9 in. (TH 940)

H. 'Tweeny' -- 3 x 10 in., loose and irregular (TBOLH 89); not treated in PGTH; [dimensions not given] small, dense mound (TH 970)

H. 'Twist of Lime' -- not given in TBOLH; not treated in PGTH

H. 'Woodland Elf' -- not given in TBOLH; not treated in PGTH

H. 'Yellow Eyes' -- not treated in PGTH; dimensions not given, low, dense mound (TH 1037)

AHS Unregistered Miniature Hostas

H. 'Cat's Eye' -- 3 x 12 in., low, flat, fairly dense rosette (TBOLH 137); 5 x 14 in. (TH 172); 2 x 6 in., a low, dense mound (PGTH 59)

H. 'Little Devil' -- not treated in TBOLH; not treated in PGTH

Other Hostas

H. 'Blue Ice' (small) --

H. 'Buttercup Baby' (unregistered) --

H. 'Cracker Crumbs' (small) --

H. 'Craig's Temptation' (small) --

H. 'Doubled Up' --

H. 'Francee' (medium) --

H. 'Great Expectations' --

H. 'June' --

H. 'Liberty' (giant) --

H. 'Little Aurora' (small) --

H. 'Mighty Mouse' (small) --

H. 'Peanut' (small) --

H. plantaginea (medium) -- 24 x 60 in., dome-shaped mound (PGTH 150); 25 x 57 in. (TH 721)

H. 'Praying Hands' (small) --

H. 'Shiny Penny' (small) --

H. 'Silver Halo' (unregistered) --

H. 'Spartan Arrow' (small) --

H. 'Sugar Babe' --

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

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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