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.