I suspect it's just an immature leaf. I've seen young Krossa Regal in box stores you would never know it was such a nice hosta looking at a very young plant. Also when they cram a bunch of pots together, they have only one direction to grow - narrow and up.

Paul

Yes, they are indeed more elongated when younger.

Here's a pic of mine when I bought it as a baby in 2009. It's hard to believe it has changed so much since then.

Thank you all! I will enjoy watching this little one grow up...this hosta business is a long game!

If you had seen my Sagae as a young plant,you would have never believed it was the same plant. It was a small,lance-shaped one eyed plant that one single leaf of the present plant could cover. Yes,they indeed look very different than adult plants! Phil

Hi Jadie 88, where are you in Maryland? I live in northern Montgomery County, about 20 minutes from the Frederick line.

chris

Hey Chris, I wondered the same when you mentioned the orange clay. :) we are close enough to have that in common! I'm in Timonium, Baltimore County.

AHHHHH, Jadie, you are in Timonium?
Let me see, we went to mass there one Sunday, and took a drive through your town, down an avenue lined with trees so thickly growing, you could not see the sky overhead, it felt like a tunnel. Dense, jet green coolness and quiet. You probably know just the spot I mean, it was quite an experience. Such an effect only repeated by the avenues of live oaks at some ante-bellum mansions in the old south.

oh, yes, there are quite a few of those beautiful tree tunnel roads around here...love it! I have only lived here for under a year, so I'm not perfectly familiar with where things are, but I think I know the spot you mean.

I was born closer to your neck of the woods in Long Beach MS and lived there until I was twelve. I remember lots of pecan trees and azaleas, but hostas had we none. :) Around here every house has at least a few!

Well, I'll be darned....Long Beach is about half way to New Orleans from here, and it has changed a lot since the gambling casinos came to town, and also since Hurricane Katrina did some urban renewal.

Not many people around have hosta to the extent of being addicted to the plants. But the lady at Lowes managing the garden center told me there are always folks buying a few along, and they just disappear into a garden space where they may be treated as annuals.

So far, I've had two friends and two neighbors ask to see my garden meaning the HOSTA part. They had NO IDEA hosta could look like this....and now they understand why I had a couple hundred pots tipped over.

I'll have to invite them back for the "Hosta Tipping Party" around Thanksgiving.

Ha hahahahha Moccasin...good thinking! Promise of pumpkin pie after the tipping...wait a minute...that's a Cannuck tradition..just in case they want your hosta lol