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\"Hosta

\u2022 Hosta \u2018Blue Cadet\u2019 emerging in April<\/p><\/div>\n

There are so many stages of hostas that I enjoy seeing. None of them include slugs by the way.<\/p>\n

Having a shade garden I naturally grow many different cultivars of hostas. This particular one is named \u2018Blue Cadet’ and was given to me years ago by my son Chris for Mother’s Day. Two Cadets and a Phlox subulata, I made out like a bandit!<\/p>\n

\"Hosta

\u2022 Hosta \u2018Blue Cadet\u2019 top view<\/p><\/div>\n

Each year I try to catch the hostas as they emerge from the ground but each one has its own timetable and the prime time is very short. If you go into the garden in the morning to look at their progress, by the afternoon’s stroll they’ve changed again.<\/p>\n

I’m always glad when I take these worm’s eye view shots with my Sony digital with a swivel screen so I no longer have to lie in the mud like the good old days. I can thank my friend Elise for nodding in the right direction when it came time to buy my first digital camera.<\/p>\n

I love the textures of the newly emerging hostas and the changes in coloring at the base. I love the unfurling spirals so dramatic from the top view. Each leaf unfolds with its own personality and destiny.<\/p>\n

\"Hosta

\u2022 Hosta \u2018Blue Cadet\u2019 in June<\/p><\/div>\n

I don’t grow hostas for their flowers but some of them do have quite beautiful and in some cases, fragrant blooms. The Cadet has a nicely formed lavender flower emerging by the end of June. The heart-shaped leaves have a blue tinge to them and in my garden is almost slug free. It forms a compact, well-balanced medium sized tidy mound like the rest of the tokudama clan of which it is an offspring.<\/p>\n

I think I should transplant some of my Athyrium nipponicum ‘Pictum’ to create a vignette. The scale of the two might get along nicely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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