2022 Hostas N, P, R

 We move along to the second half of the alphabet with N through R.  Some summer uglies in here...be warned!

Speaking of summer uglies...Night Before Christmas.  Go home NBC, you're drunk and you're embarrassing yourself.  Hoping for a bounce back year in its second year in 2023.  This guy came from Bill Gibbons' garden in Innerkip, ON.

This is Paradigm.  Paradigm is a solid classic with round chartreuse/blue, green leaves.  This was a fairly good size plant when it was purchased this year at DeGroot's, so I have high hopes that it will mature into a nice clump next to our Taylor's Sunburst Lodgepole Pine.

Next, we have Pocketful of Sunshine.  This is a great and prolific first year planting from Bordine's in Rochester, MI.  This one glows under the Purple Leaf Sand Cherry in the front yard, and has held up really well in the nearly full half day sun.  Super impressed and looking forward to this one year after year.

Another one from the garden of Bill Gibbons.  This one is a small/miniature hosta with nice coloration in the shade.  This is another one of the smalls planted under the maples.

Rainbow's End has some of the most stark contrast I have seen in a hosta.  The outer edge is deep forest green, against a middle variegation of chartreuse.  Now that I have blown up this photo, I see that something is chomping on this fella...need to watch that.  Rainbow's End was purchased at DeGroot's and this is the second summer in the ground.

Rainforest Sunrise is a beautiful small hosta with great coloration.  Although this one is a little rough during the dog days of summer, it will be a great addition in the coming years.  Rainforest Sunrise was purchased this year, but it is the only one that I didn't record the source for.  Weird.

Razor's Edge is a really nice small hosta with cool serrated leaves. This one was also from Bill Gibbons and was planted this year in the front yard.

Red October is all about the legs.  He is graced with red petioles that can be seen if the leaves are lifted up.  Nice limey green leaves contrast its red legs.  Red October comes from Bill Gibbons' sale in Innerkip.

This is Reptilian.  This will be a nice medium sized hosta with long narrow leaves that are a unique color of green.  Also from Bill Gibbons' sale in Innerkip.

From the Striptease family comes Risky Business.  This is a nice medium sized hosta with stark white middle variegation.  This will be a nice companion to Ghost Spirit, planted close by in the front yard.  Risky Business was purchased at DeGroot's, here in Sarnia.

Meet Road Rage. This is a plant I have been after for a while.  Road Rage seems to be very divisive in the hosta community with equally distributed love and hate.  I love it.  It will mature into a gnarly clump of heavily corrugated leaves.  I think it looks like a vegetable when it is mature, like kale, or similar.

I found Road Rage during a chance visit to Perennial Accents in Royal Oak, MI.  I found them by accident when somebody in one of the hosta FB groups mentioned the place.  As I was only working 5 mins away, it was a no-brainer that I had to visit.  I met Andy Torvinen, who runs the garden center out of his yard.  Andy has MANY cool varieties, and I came home with 3 total (Road Rage, Talking Point and Spartan Arrow).  One of the best things about the hosta community is the people you meet along the way.  I look forward to visiting Andy again in the future.

As is the case from time to time, I have purchased another hosta that came after I completed its letter grouping post...therefore, I present to you (absent from the F section previously) Fire Island.

Fire Island is another red petiole'd variety, with the red extending into the base of the leaves like little red freckles on the yellow leaves.  A great filler to break up a sea of green.

Listening to:  "You and Me selling weed" by The Flaming Lips