Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 9:09 pm (GMT 0)
Nice Hosta!
There are lots and lots of blue-leaved Hostas out there. If you search for "Hosta blue" on the net you'll get near to five million hits.
Is the way of growth shown in the photo it's habitual way of growing? The leaves are hanging down, not standing up or pointing out?
Philip's Abba Dabba Doo has a white edge. Yours is all blue, correct?
The H. sieboldiana-group have a hanging way of growth, so it might be a hybrid from this group. There's one called "Blue Angel" that looks very similar to yours, but it's supposed to grow to near 3 ft not 2.
The Hosta montana-group also has a hanging growth form, so it might be one of those as well.
If you check the Hosta Library and click your way to the "Blue"-section it starts with Blue Angel, ends with Blue Wonder, and all the blue ones starting with another letter, like "Hadspen Blue" aren't even mentioned in that section.
I won't recommend entering the Hosta Library unless it's a very rainy, cold day and you feel like doing nothing for a few hours.
I frequently loose myself in there. I'm sorry I couldn't help you better, but ID-ing hostas are becoming more and more difficult due to all the different breeders who manage to raise a hybrid and name it just as a hybrid looking just like it is raised and named somewhere else on Earth. We had "Blue Boy" and "Blue Cadet" in our garden. I picked five leaves off Blue Boy and put them into Blue Cadet while my husband watched. Then I asked him to pick them back out. He couldn't. The ones he were certain I'd put in weren't.
The botanists can tell the difference. It has to do with pollen bearers and stem cells or whatever. I also stood at a Hosta specialist, holding two different Hostas and I couldn't see which was which. Hopefully somebody else will come along and help you better.
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