Greenthumb, where did you buy your Golden Meadows? Are you sure your plant has only one eye? The reason I ask is that I googled GM to find that that GM is a sport of 'Elegans' which is a blue hosta,so the different looking leaves aren't a reversion. If you have more than one eye, then, perhaps you got two different hostas as GM. That's happened to me in the case of ferns. If your plant has only one eye, then perhaps the different leaves are more immature leaves. I know I received a Grand Canyon where some of the leaves were less rippled.

If you look at my Golden Meadows which hasn't completely unfurled you can see that some of the more immature leaves aren't rippled.

It looks like a sport to me, but I'm no expert. I have one that is doing that and it looks like it's all one eye, too. I'm not sure what to do with it either.

bkay

Yeah - pretty sure it's only one eye. It's wrapped around itself actually, which is kind of weird in itself. I bought it from a local Hosta grower I went to a few weeks ago. I'm telling myself for now that they're just immature and I wouldn't even start to look to see if it's a sport until I have more than 3 leaves. I guess I'll just watch and wait. It just looks like everyone else's come up looking like GM, not like mine (don't get me wrong, it's pretty!!!) I'll try and get another picture tonight, or maybe tomorrow. The weird thing is that it looks like the GM leaves kind of rotted off (stems were kind of mushy where they came off) so maybe it's just gone back to a really immature version because of something that happened when they potted it up...I dunno. It's in my nursery bed with a few others so we'll see how it does.....I'm just totally confused.

so often is the case that the young 1 that doesn't look like a mature 1

Update: The leaves are starting to darken up and are getting some ripple to them. I'm going to assume that this is just an immature plant and over time will come to see the beauty that is Golden Meadows.....I can't wait!

Update#2: Can anyone help me shed light on what might possibly be going on with that top leaf (12 oclock), just on the side there, there is a half moon dark spot. It's gotten much worse. I'll try to get another pic tonight, but was hoping someone can help me out with this.

Thanks, Pam

here is my "Golden Meadows",,,

it has been "shared" a few times,,,

a favorite of mine,,,

"Torchlight" is above it,,,and "Toy Soldier" below,,,

jill

This is my Golden Meadows yesterday. It is streaked green in the latest version of coloration. And the older leaves are even more green. But I'm liking the ruffled and seamed look, which is what I thought I'd get with Embroidery, which is not all that much stitched.

I think Hornbaker's sale has Embroidery and other specific hosta for $4.99 which is a big reduction from its $xx price tag just a year ago in most nurseries.

Golden Meadows joined my hosta family in 2006,,,
here are a few pics of the early years,,,

9-11-2006

5-24-2007

and 6-6-2009

thanks for looking,,,jill