Nursery News: Carolyn’s Shade Gardens is a retail nursery located in Bryn Mawr, PA, specializing in showy, colorful, and unusual plants for shade. The only plants that we ship are snowdrops and miniature hostas. For catalogues and announcements of events, please send your full name, location, and phone number (for back up use only) to carolyn@carolynsshadegardens.com. Click here to get to the home page of our website for catalogues and information about our nursery and to subscribe to our blog.
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Clockwise from upper left: flowers of ‘Lemon Frost’, ‘Neutrino’, ‘Chartreuse Wiggles’, ‘Thumbelina’, and ‘Feather Boa’.
My last post called New Miniature and Small Hostas for 2014 highlighted four new additions to our extensive offerings of miniature hostas. In that post I talked about ‘Alakazaam’, ‘Baby Booties’, ‘Cherish’, and ‘Kiwi Golden Thimble’. To see the photos and descriptions, click here. This post will add five more profiles of cute little hostas that you will want to add to your containers and gardens.
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‘Feather Boa’ is extremely useful because it grows rapidly to form a dense groundcover of bright gold leaves. It is 11″ tall by 27″ wide, and its leaves are 3 3/4″ long by 2″ wide. The narrow gold foliage with very wavy margins is topped by attractive purple flowers in July.
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‘Thumbelina’ departs from the usual color scheme to give us a very cute bright green and gold mini with wavy, heart-shaped leaves and a wide yellow margin . It is 10″ tall by 24″ wide, and its leaves are 4″ long by 3″ wide. It has medium purple flowers in July and forms a small, dense rounded mound, great specimen!
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‘Chartreuse Wiggles has glossy, bright gold, very narrow and heavily rippled leaves that really stand out in the garden. It is 10″ high by 25″ wide, and its leaves are 5 1/2″ long by 1″ wide. Pale purple flowers appear in August. It forms a low dense mound, making an excellent specimen, edger, or groundcover.
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‘Neutrino’ is another mini hosta that really stands out. The bright green, pointy leaves have a wide white margin that streaks into the center. It forms a 5″ tall by 16″ wide neat but dense mound. Its leaves are 2 3/4″ long by 1 3/4″ wide topped by medium purple flowers in July. It is a tiny plant, a seedling of H. venusta.
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‘Lemon Frost’ features a very unusual color combination of light chartreuse leaves with a pure white margin. It is 10″ tall by 24″ wide, and its leaves are 3 1/2″ long by 1 1/2″ wide. The gorgeous, dark purple striped flowers appear in July (next photo). It is very fast growing and useful as a variegated ground cover or edging plant.
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The buds of ‘Lemon Frost’ are a desirable dark purple, and the flowers are striped—a hosta I would grow for its flowers!
There may be a third post in this series with a few more new additions. Meanwhile, if you would like to read more about little hostas, click on any of the following links:
New Miniature and Small Hostas for 2014, Part 1
2013 New Miniature and Small Hostas
Hostas Containers and Companions
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