Hello, and welcome to my personal blog. My name is John Spangler; I live in Versailles, Kentucky, where since June 2010 I have been growing miniature hostas in my garden, along with some of their larger siblings in deck containers. I am a member of The American Hosta Society and the Greater Cincinnati Daylily-Hosta Society and have been accredited by the AHS as a provisional hosta show judge.

In addition to observations on my own hosta garden and links to numerous hosta-related websites, this blog will include occasional posts on other interests of mine. I hope that you find something interesting and useful here and encourage you to grow hostas, the Friendship Plant -- particularly miniature hostas. Good things do come in small packages!

Feel free to leave comments on blog entries or to e-mail me at JMSinKY@aol.com

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

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


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