Chickadee – Dixie Chickadee

Confusion reigns as this little plant was named Chickadee when I bought it but when it was registered – Chickadee was already taken.  Plan B is the new name: Dixie Chickadee which is a reference to its parent, Hosta ‘Dixie Chick’.   I believe I purchased this plant from Naylor Creek Nursery in 2007.  As it’s shown here it has been moved from the Berry Garden where it was barely seen to the new mini garden.  I divided it when I moved it so it’s set back a bit but in the end, two plants are better than one when you’ve got voles galore.  Seeing as a full grown plant will reach only about eight inches, I think I could lose it all in one chomp!

Don Quixote

Hosta ‘Don Quixote’ was beautiful last year.  The photo above is from 2007.  In the winter of 2007/2008 Don Quixote was the victim of the vole attack and the huge crown was quite simply decimated.  Despite the devastation, he came back.  I took the opportunity to divide him into three tiny plants, two with streaks remaining and one with almost no streaking visible that will probably turn plain green. 

I have not yet been able to get Don Quixote to set seeds and I guess that I will have to skip this year as well.  Sigh.  Don Quixote is a streaked form of ‘Don Stevens’.

Dancing Queen

Although I’m posting in June, this photo was from about a month ago in May and shows the amazing – no, stunning spring color of Dancing Queen.   Hosta ‘Dancing Queen’ is seedling from Split Personality.  Split Personality is a hosta that really does seem to have a split personality.  On the Hosta Library site there are two photos, one of a green split personality and one of a completely gold split personality.  Dancing Queen has lovely ruffled edges.  She’s dancing!  You can’t have just one of these plants.  It’s too amazingly colored to fit into your garden so go out and get three!