Here are a few pics from my trip to Wade & Gatton this past spring. Figure someone might find them interesting. This is a seedling of Dick and Jane Ward, which is currently labelled 'Mona Lisa Child'. Deeply cupped blue-green leaves with huge puckers. Zitronenfalter, which is very bright yellow in the spring, puts on a good show. It was introduced by Klose and the parentage is unknown. The German name means "lemon butterfly". Zitronenfalter does not seem to be very common in American gardens, even though it's been around for over 20 years. Unnamed seedling which looks interesting, with dusty blue-green leaves and lots of puckering Here's another unnamed seedling which we happened to stumble upon. Extremely upright. Bright green shiny leaves stand very erect. We suggested to name it 'Skyscraper Green' because it's going to be a tall one! (In this pic it's already 2-3' high) Look at the unnamed hosta in the lower part of the pic: Here's a close-up photo. It's a very contorted and wadded up mass of bluish leaves. Wonder what it will turn out to be. Van has an entire series of American Indians hostas. Here is a pic of Algonquin, one of the better Am. Indian hostas, IMHO. A very large plant with nicely corrugated leaves.

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