Great post, thanks for the pics!
The picture labeled Big Daddy looks more like the First Frost liner you posted below it or Sagae.
Vanessa

This post was edited by hippieindenial on Mon, Apr 29, 13 at 9:38

Really enjoyed seeing your pictures. That Victory does look gorgeous.

Pretty sure it's Big Daddy Vanessa. The vein count is different, but they do look alike, I think they will be quite different in a short time.

Thanks to you and to you, newhosta lady, for the kudos. Enjoyed the walk around.

Jon

Good start to spring Jon!

And much further north, the 60 plus F warmth yesterday coaxed the first pips out of the ground. Lady Isobel Barnet is usually the first up and this year is no exception. She was a single eye in 2005, was split in 2010 and is a very respectable 34 pips this year.

Last frost here is typically about May 20 so a few weeks yet to go - I expect the other hostas all to show in the next week or ten days.

Doug

Wow thanks for the tour Jon. Weather all this week should be quite warm so things will be happening rapidly here. Must get my camera dusted off!
Jan

Doug, I have all together too many spots that look just like your example or are still just dirt. Our latest expected frost here is tomorrow, but since the temps keep getting into the 30s at night, I think all bets are off for the last frost date.

Thanks Jan, look forward to your pics.

Jon

After a long, long early Spring.......

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New; Brother Stefan

Sum and Substance, transplanted last year.

Sagae. I think this is 2 individual plants.

Elegans

Her royal highness; Empress Wu

Liberty.......OMG

Blue Angel. Poking out along the cascades.

Wide Brim, next to the Angel

Fragrant Bouquet ???, making a bold entrance.

First Frost, one of 4 liners from last Fall. All 4 up.

Orange Marmalade...sweet

June

....and plenty of asparagus for the vegans among us.

Temps in the 50s and 60s with 30s, 40s at night. Many no shows still, but pips showing up all the time. Hope you enjoyed it.

Jon

Good to see plants come up up north,Jon! Yours look like mine did back in early April. Good to finally see pics from someone else! Phil

Thanks for the pics!

Thanks Phil and stoc. I am sorry it is still not straightened out, but I don't dare try and edit it. The last picture is Sieboldiana, Elegans.

Jon

Jon- I have this picture in my head of you crawling around on you hands and knees with a camera in hand. I totally understand your excitement. Sometimes I "caress" the soil trying to feel a hard little eye getting ready to appear. I discovered too that you don't want to ever edit a post with a photo in it unless you are prepared to re-do the whole thing over again.

-Babka

Babka,

Luckily not much of my property is level so I don't have to lay down so far...usually, but anything for the better picture. With these 60 degree days, you can almost watch everything grow before your eyes.

I don't know what it is with photo-bucket and me lately. It seems when I exit the web page it refiles the pictures and they disappear to another location, somehow. I think I am going to exit first, go back, and then go through the trouble of getting and copying the links. It still isn't what I wanted, but twice through the pictures and enough is enough.

Jon

Looking good Jon !

I love this part of the year when they are just emerging and unfurling. So much action happening in the garden itâÂÂs hard to keep track on a day to day basis.

Keep us posted as they grow on. :)

Ludi

Yeah, I figured all those eye level photos had you down on the cold cold ground. Me, if I can pick up the pot, it gets placed where I don't have to crawl around. Getting too old for that.

Jon, just about every batch of photos I take I have to make a quick trip outside to read a label or identify a hosta in the background. Sun glaring off the tags can be really irritating.
I never take a pen and paper with me, but I attempt to include the tag in the shot. And, as soon as I come inside, I try to add tags to the photos before I forget who's who. This year, so many of my hosta are changing their appearance, it is a whole different ballgame.

And then I still have some which are reluctant to break dormancy. Someone (Gesila? Babka?) asked on another thread why I still had hosta dormant. I'll try to account for it in another thread. Not here.

Enjoy your emerging beauties, Jon. Impressive!

Ludi, I can now look out the window and see a forest of stalks ready to unfurl. We still have temps in the 30s, but you can smell the earth again.

Mocc, I have no labels (far less of a collection than you) and I keep overestimating my ability to remember where each picture was taken. I can remember the names when I am at the location, but, one patch of mulch looks pretty much the same when I download the pics.

Thanks to you both for the compliments...it makes the dirty knees worth it.

Jon