Mocc, your greens look great thanks for sharing. If you remember my Stained Glass sport Emerald Stain is very dark, seems to be a fast grower and very strong so far. Don't want to put up any pictures until next year. But here is a picture of Elatior another one of my fav's.

Picture showed in preview but not in post. Hummm!

I received Devon Green as a bonus plant this year. This medium sized hosta with its shiny dark green leaves is a sport of Halcyon.

Another vote for the dark greens - Undulata Erromena....

Paul

....and Fortunei Hyacinthina.

Paul

I love the shape of Lakeside Lollipop, mocc. Do you have a picture of the plant? Will need to add that one to my wish list.

Love the dark greens especially if they are shiny.

Sport of Dixie Chick

Huge plant with beautiful flowers

The last two are not shiny but wonderful anyway.

My favorite dark green, Black Jack Chew.

T.

I was also going to mention Rosedale Spoons- it's by far the darkest one in my garden. Almost freakishly dark!

Hi, Mr. Gary! Glad to see you posting with the forum again. I will be here when your Emerald Stain pokes its nose up.
There are beauties among the darker hosta, I think the textures are very visible when the color is dark like this.

Let me see about a whole plant of LS Lollipop, I was smitten by it from first look too....... this shot taken a few minutes ago.

Lakeside Lollipop

Black Hills....tall as a big pine tree, I'll have to remove the tape later, does not appear it needs the tape at all.

Whirlwind, it kept getting darker and darker, now it is almost black

Who likes em shiny slick and jet green? Here is Nightlife

And now, Lederhosen. I have ONE that I know is Lederhosen, and then the NOID beside it changes its colors much slower but winds up looking like #1. Very strange. I've had them both since 2010, from a very mixed up first-ever hosta order to Plant Delights Nursery...the LAST hosta order I ever placed with them. Too confusing for me.

BTW, in another month, Lederhosen will look like melted green patent leather with almost no sign of the veins, just a smooth shiny dark green leaf surface. The other hosta I call Lederhosen NOID is still powdery blue. But....what else could it be if it winds up looking like the other one?

How about a smaller one. King of Spades.
More later, we're headed out to dinner for our anniversary right now. Bye.

My neighbor Bobbi has Mystic Star and it is a gorgeous dark green hosta. She packs hers close together and when they get too crouded she digs them up and replaces them.

I plan to sneak over there at night and fertilize it, just waiting with my bucket in hand waiting for her to dig it up. lol I have not kept my desire for it a secret from her, so it is just a matter of time. It is so dark it almost is black, and shiny. I love it.

Theresa

Happy Anniversary, Mocc and DH!! May you have many more!

Sincerely,
Don B.

Here is a fairly mature Lakeside Lollipop about to flower taken a few days ago. The second picture is when it flowered last year near the end of July along with Blond Elf. I noticed the white flowers work really well with the dark green.

'Devon Green' was getting too much sun, and lightened up a lot. Not to my liking, so I moved it into a lot more shade. Should look much darker next season.

Don B.

My Clifford's Comet sport is very dark...

Paul

Great thread....beautiful plants everyone
My two darkest....and fast becoming two of my favorites
Cup of Grace ....tall and gracefully upright....leaves are starting to cup

Obsession ....leaves are very dark and shine

Love the look of the leaves,,,some areas look almost black

A closer look

Have to say, I've added a few more to my wish list

Mojito and Tongue Twister, two of my favorite dark greens. I love all of them.

Beverly

Simple but stunning, I think. Lancifolia.

How about Potomac Pride, or Lilly Pad.

Gotta get the camera out ...

^_^ --~

Yes, Bragu, we need some pics of that Lily Pad. Sounds like I'd love it.

Ah yes, that reminds me of THREE MORE dark ones.

Celtic Uplands, Sweet Bo Peep, and Candy Dish together in this 2012 picture. Easy to upload 1 and get 3 down. :)

Irish Luck

Nippers..and Happy Hearts, in May..... rather small but good jet greens that are greener now than then.

and Steffi, which has a white margin, but it points up how dark the leaf becomes. Dramatic. Chose to grow it because it reminds me of my drama queen granddaughter, named Steffi. :)

I've got Lily Pad next to Rosedale Spoons, so it doesnt seem as dark to me by comparison. Its a beautiful shiny emerald. I love this one too

The dark green rest your eyes from looking at all the varigated ones. Here is Invincible.

And here is Moonlight Sonata.

I just bought a single eye h.'Irish Luck' which will be a real beauty in a few years, see the picture from the Hosta Library. Bernd

Here is a link that might be useful:

Loving those Rosedale Spoons !

I'll come back later with the picture which is in my camera now. It is my last standing bloom scape, on Royal Accolade, which is of course fragrant and a sport of Royal Standard.

Of note, once again, the assassin bug nymphs are all over the stem around the flowers. I am keeping a list of hosta which hosted those fragrant hosta lovers, in case they know something I don't know.....that these are the hosta which get their approval for scent/fragrance....some pheremone? There must be some distinguishing characteristic for these hosta scapes that others, such as Mama plantaginea herself or Aphrodite or Venus or Doubled Up, do NOT have. Because these nymphs do not go from one plant to the next which is nearby. All the hosta they are seen on are in all different places in my garden.

I put this comment into this particular thread because Royal Accolade is a dark green. I found a spiny yellow orb spider and its web in the same corner too. It was eating a fly when I spotted it.

Thanks Mocc, please do. I'm glad you brought up this thread again. There are at the very least a few of these greenies I'll thank myself for later if I put them on next season's want-list NOW.

My 'Invincible' is almost toast, but I'm finding most of my other fragrant varieties seem to want to outlast their unstinky bretheren. How about in your neck of the woods?

Regards,
Don B.

Yes, thanks for bumping this up. There are some here I will put on my "want list."

This is my favorite, Valerie's Vanity. Very dark and glossy, no slug damage and lasts long into the fall.

Midnight Ride comes to mind but I can never get a good picture of it - well named - I think it might be the darkest one here

hh

potomac pride leaf w/ dime

hh

Moonlight Sonata qualifies, methinks...

hh

Wow, 'Moonlight Sonata' sure is nice. All that and fragrant, too? Count ME in!

Don B.

Moonlight Sonata qualifies, methinks...

hh

{{!gwi}}

A little late arriving on the scene, but this is a wonderful thread!

Belated Anniversary wishes, Mocc!

Gorgeous pics of gorgeous hosta, All...thanks for the treats!

I have some that are already listed, like Candy Dish, Sweet Bo Peep, Tall Twister (grower's cultivar), Whirlwind has gone dark green, June Spirit....all have that beautiful sheen to them. Devon Green pops first in my mind when I think green and I don't even own it. Got to fix that! :-)

Mocc...coveting LBSatin! :-).

Jo