H. 'Fire and Ice'

Call me a sucker for punishment, in 2011 I purchased a fair number of additional bare root bagged Hostas from Costco. That has been an annual crapshoot for the last 9 years, do the contents match the labels, and do we have HVX-free material? So far this year, with this cultivar, we can at least answer the first question affirmatively. The answer to the second one will be 3-4 years away to be quite certain, but, at least early indications are encouraging.

I don't know what possessed me to think that this was as labelled...DUHHH....it's not. 'Fire and Ice' has a pure white center variegation, not yellow/cream. Haven't figured out yet what it is...

In 2012 it was back in the Costco assortment and out of five in the package this one is correct. There were a couple of intriguing ones in the mix that plainly were not as labelled. One a most peculiar blue with medio misting, the others the same blue but solid coloured. As I'm writing this they are in bloom and the flowers likely hold the key to their identity, there are stamens, albeit deformed, but no pollen on either the misted one and the solid coloured ones.

Turns out those 3 mislabeled ones were a 'Ghost Spirit' and 2 'Valentine Lace'.