H. 'Little Aurora'

Friday September 12th 2008 some more Hostas were added to the collection, courtesy of a benevolent secret trader from Ontario, this is one of them. Thanks again Kim! As you can see from the picture, I ended up with 2 divisions. When I went to pot them up I couldn't help but notice there were in fact 2 separate crowns, each with a decent root system, so it was a no-brainer to pot those individually.

While the ones I received are on the greenish side, this is apparently a gold-leaved cultivar, cupped and puckered, in the Tokudama family. Tokudamas are slow growers as a rule, so we'll see how true to form this one is. It will certainly see a lot more sun and I have no doubt the gold will manifest itself next year.

Sure enough, it is now early July 2009 and that gold that was supposed to be there is indeed showing and as you can deduce from the scapes you see, it even flowered in 2009.