Yes, there are some Mice that I very much welcome in my garden. Blue Mouse Ears (BME) and it's family are the cutest part of my hosta collection. I like small and miniature hostas and BME as well as its sports is fitting my taste perfectly fine. They all have neat clumps with small round leaves. Thick substance is not very much appreciated by slugs. Flowers are very nice as well.
BME was registered in 2000 by E. & J. Deckert as 13x23cm (HxW) plant with moderate growth. I have 2 plants of BME. One is growing in ideal for hostas light conditions - morning sun followed by dappled shade for the rest of the day. The other one (right photo) is getting full sun from 10:30 to 15:30. Both are doing equally great.
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Cat and Mouse is my favourite BME sport. It was registered in 2007 by H. Hansen as 8x15cm plant and is a smallest member of the family as far as I know - true miniature hosta. Last year I bought it from Karin as a 3 shoot plant and it stayed the same size this season but it's flowering. So I hope it will produce more shoots next year. Leaf colors are very subtle - chartreuse with blue-green margin.
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Another mediovariegated BME family sport in my collection is Holy Mouse Ears or HME. It's a stable tissue culture sport of streaked Royal Mouse Ears registered in 2006 by M. Zilis & E. & J. Deckert. Very bright and healthy plant.
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From margined BME family members I have 3 hostas. Frosted Mouse Ears is like HME sport of Royal Mouse Ears. It was registered in 2006 by M. Zilis & E. & J. Deckert. My plant was very unlucky this year. Earlier in the season roedeer stepped twice on it and half of it was eaten by a slug. Despite all that torture it looks good right now with a new flush of leaves.
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Mighty Mouse is margined sport of BME registered in 2006 by Walters Gardens. Although description of FME and Mighty Mouse is very similar as well as their pictures in Hostalibrary their coloration is slightly different in my garden. Since they grow next to each other in identical light, soil and watering conditions I can easily compare them. In FME margin holds its chartreuse-green spring color until now, whereas in Mighty Mouse it turned creamy-white very early in the season.
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Green Mouse Ears is green sport of BME registered in 2004 by E. & J. Deckert. It emerged good looking but got some fungus disease at petiole base so couple of leaves fell off. I figured out that the problem was caused by maple leaf mulch touching the crown. After moving mulch away from the crown the leaves stopped rotting off. I'm planning to further treat the plant and soil around it with fungicide to make sure to kill the rot completely.
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My most recent addition to the Mouse collection is Dancing Mouse a new sport of BME found by M. Fransen. It has wavy yellowish-green margin on blue-green leaves.
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1 comments:
Hvor har du mange smukke Hostaer.
Jeg har også nogle stykker. Jeg er i gang med at lave 2 Hosta bede.
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