Yachtlady Hosta

[Jennie in MT]

I know others must have gotten hosta from her.  How are yours doing??  Mine are going to be a thrill this summer.  I think I may have lost 2, but I was so psyched to see them coming up this spring!!

(UPDATE:  I was on my way to the car and went by the spot where Red October and Saishu Jima were planted last fall.  POP!  They have come up!!    Just way behind the others.  Ahhhhhhh  )

[Susan]

I bought 5 or 6 from Karen. All of them came back like gangbusters. I didn't lose any. I thought I had lost one, but it is a smaller Hosta and just popped up later than the others. I feel like a made out like a bandit with her hostas.

Jennie, I think I saw a post of yours over at GW Hosta exchange, briefly mentioning you were hoping to find a Red October. If that was indeed you, and you want to trade, PM me with what hostas you have to trade. I have divided a RO and am just procrastinating putting up a post over there. If anyone else is interested, I have atleast one other trade of the RO.         

Susan

[Jennie in MT]

It IS ME.  I will PM  Thanks!  The RO and the Saishu Jima did not come back    waaaaa

[Ky Kim]

That is were I got all my sedums, semps and succulents from her.  Something called strange plant, it lives up to its name....  Few other things but can't think of what they are right now.  I did get a mini-hosta from her, I haven't seen it this year  :'( .  I really wanted that mini-hosta.  It only got to be about 8" high.

Kim

[small fish]

I also bought about 5 or 6 hostas from her.  Seems all but one came back.  I placed my order with her rather late and she did not have all the choices that were available in the begining.     Wished I would have ordered sooner. 

Susan, could you post the web site for the GW Hosta exchange.  I would be interested in getting some different hostas than the few I have.


Myra

[Susan]

Here ya go Myra http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/hosta/nph-ind.cgi?type=exch

[Jennie in MT]

~~~~~~NEWSFLASH~~~~~~~I have just talked with Karen/Yachtlady.  I think she will have more hosta.  She is putting together a list of what she has that came up this spring.  I will have her post it or post it for her when she has it together.

Hey, Myra!  No need to go all the way to GW.  What ya got and what ya lookin for?? 
I have:  Wide Brim**, Sum & Substance**, Krossa Regal**, Blue Mammoth**, Honeybells**, Frances Williams**, Blue Cadet** (a mini), Whirlwind (now I can't find this in my gardens, so maybe I have lost it), Samual Blue, Love Pat, Royal Standard, Tokudama Flavocircinalis**, Gold Standard**, Saishu Jima**(just popped up), The Night Before Christmas, August Moon, Invincible, Antioch, and Blue Angel. **Divisions may be available.

Jennie

[small fish]

Hey, Hey ...  Jennie, looks like you have them all ... I will look them up and get back with you.. thanks

Myra

[Yacht Lady]

Hey y'all, Yacht Hosta Lady here . . . be patient on those hostas that haven't come up yet, my Blue Ice just started to pop yesterday.  No lie!  My plants are always late, so maybe they just need to adjust.  When the daffodils in town are done blooming, mine are just popping open.  My entire yard is that way.  Not sure why.

If those plants don't come up, please drop me a note and we will see what we might be able to do about that. 

Jennie, thanks for the thread.  I have only been able to talk to a few of the folks who have gotten my babies.  It's good to know what is going on with them.

Yes, I am updating the catalog.  It seems my babies liked me moving out about 1000 hosta last year.  They are coming back stronger than last year.  Some have come back that I thought I was sold out of and two came up I haven't seen in a couple of years!!!!!  Forget Blue Mammoth though.  That one was a steal as all of you who got one knows and I am sold out of them.  I managed to keep one division for myself.  Oh yes, I have a massive pot that I am planting up with my favorite hostas to go on the yatch with me.

Give me about a week or so to finish out the catalog.  I want to open up some of my specialty hostas this year to sale that I didn't offer last year.  Some aren't up enough to be sure what they are yet, but they are coming.  Also, those of you who know me know that if I didn't have bad luck, I'd have no luck at all (but I'm still smiling anyway).  Fell two weeks ago in our garage in the dark when I was home alone for hours.  I laid there for hours until I finally found my wheelchair (by the braille method) and was able to get up.  Doc thought I'd broken 4 bones in my left foot (oh the pain) and popped off the nail on big toe on right foot.  Ends up just torns ligaments and tendons and bruise muscles in the left foot, nothing was broken, but you should see the surgical shoes I have to wear.  They give ugly a new meaning and I'm hobbling around a bit, so I'm moving especially slow.  So, as usual, I appreciate your patience.

Oh yes, we are going to Baltimore on Wednesday tomorrow to look at a yatch.  Just maybe it will be our new home.  Just maybe this year (I hope) we will finally make that much needed and much wanted move.

Kim, a personal favor, if I may.  My "Strange Plant" didn't winter over.  Michael said he'd brought it in.  He brought in the wrong strange plant!  Can I get start from you?  It sets baby plants all over the leafs in early summer, so a start would give me plenty in no time.  And what mini hasn't come up?

Karen

[Ky Kim]

It was a mini hosta, All I remember it was the one with the sleeping dog in the pic.....OK on the strange plant.

Kim

[luvmyasagis]

Hey I want to see a picture of the strange plant, you have me wondering what it looks like.

[Yacht Lady]

Kim, I think I have more of what I was calling sleeping dog hosta, but I will have to check.  Has it still not come up?  I will check tomorrow and see if and how much I have.  I will drop you an email when I know and we can decide what we are going to do.  Thanks so much for being willing to send me the start of the strange plant.  Did I give you enough to send me a start?  I know I just threw it in the bag at the last minute as a Just Cause, since you got the other succulents!!!

luvmyasagis, I don't believe this, but I don't have a picture of the strange plant.  Do you have a picture of it Kim? 

It is a succulent that I took a little snippet of in Kauai and it multiplied and multiplied.  It is obviously not cold hardy.  Leaves are light steel blue and the flowers are odd with pinks and yellow.  In the summer it forms baby plants at the many nods on the leaf.  That is the one you are calling strange plant, isn't it Kim?

Karen

[Ky Kim]

Well, it hasn't bloomed for me yet.  I'll take a pic of it tomorrow for you.  I just remember the white paper with Strange plant written on it, and it had a story written on it where you had got it.  I thought that was cool, I kept that paper for a long time.  It might even still be in my greenhouse.

Kim