H. 'Invincible'
A new addition for us this year, 2008, obtained through a trade. Thanks Myrle!
Over the past couple of years I've been keen to add fragrant flowered Hostas to the mix. I realize that Hostas certainly offer a marvellous addition to the landscape by virtue of their foliage, but they DO flower and why not try and add additional fragrance to the scents we get during the course of the gardening season. So, it's only natural to try and add a mix of cultivars that do just that. 'Invincible' on top of that apparently also offers substance and in the haven for slugs we have on the We(s)t Coast that's a good thing!
It's a little early for some pictures, if for no other reason than that my not-so-trusty Olympus C5050 has given up the ghost once more for the second time in the 5 years I've owned it. Me thinks it's time for something else.
Defective cameras have a funny way of getting fixed when it's by far the least
expensive option to get back into the picture taking game again. So it was with the Olympus and it's nice to be able to snap away again with reckless abandon.
This may not be the best angle, nor show off the plant too terribly well. One of the things you don't see with much emphasis, is the piecrusting the leaves can show. Hopefully that'll show better once the season wears on.
A few weeks later and the pie-crusting of the leaves shows rather nicely in this shot.
Now let's keep our fingers crossed we'll see it flower this year....
For 2009 we divided one of the plants, one division went as a trade, the other was used as the center fill in a hanging basket with perennials.
They're all showing good vigour and a couple of them are starting to put up scapes by early July.
I noticed a very peculiar looking flower on one of them a few days later. Although it's hard to tell in this picture where the flower attaches
to the scape -virtually right at soil level- what you can readily see is the overall length of the flower, it's longer than some of the petioles!
