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| Hosta 'Liberty' June 22 2017 |
My entry into serious gardening began when we moved to a mostly
shady but big garden in Kerrisdale in Vancouver in 1986. Most botanical
publications mentioned a plant called hosta. By the time we left that garden in
2015 to our present location in Kitsilano I had amassed some 600 plus of the
plant. My discerning eye (because I like hostas) could and can note the
difference between one variegated wonder and another.
But if you look closely during the growing season of this
shade tolerant (never loving) plant you might notice as I did many years ago
that the unopened flowers on the tips of the scapes (hosta lingo for stalk) are
quite elegant. When they open some of these flowers can be awfully fragrant as
is the pure white flower of Hosta
plantaginea sometimes called the August lily.
Here you can admire the graceful about-to-open bloom of Hosta
‘Liberty’.