Hosta 'Green Fountain' 26 July 2025

My RAE (Real Academia Española) on line dictionary defines obsession (in Spanish obsesión) as:

Del lat. obsessio, -ōnis 'asedio'.

It seems that the word comes from Latin to lay siege. These days I am sieged by an obsession to scan my garden plants. When I started in 2002 and had beginner’s luck my purpose was to accurately portray a plant at 100% size, accurate colour and to include the day’s date. I thought at the time that gardeners elsewhere might want to know how a rose in June in Vancouver would compare to one in Toronto or Berlin. That did not happen.

Now and in the last couple of years I have become fussy with my scans as I spend lots of time rearranging my plants and moving leaves. I find that one scan is not enough. Why?

I am getting artsy. Accuracy is not quite out of the window yet. I have discovered the fun I get in interpreting the plant in more than one way. The case in point are these four scan of the green hosta Hosta ‘Green Fountain’. Hosta collectors and enthusiasts would scoff at my interest in an ordinary green hosta from a past when there weren’t as many variegated hostas as now (over 7500 of them are registered.).