by Sara Begg, Executive Editor

A couple years ago, I was plant shopping with my friend Carleen. Every nursery we went to, she kept picking up teeny tiny hostas and squealing with delight. (I should have know then that her love affair with agaves would be quickly coming to an end.) I didn't have much time for the little hostas, they seemed yet another plant on the fast track to squat dwarfdom. Well, let's just say that I've always been a little slow to pick up on trends and have been spending many an hour on the computer or the couch (or both), searching out which of these tiny delights to get for my garden this spring. One that will definitely be there and hopefully in quantity (for me that means 3) is Hosta 'Blue Mouse Ears'. It has just been named the 2008 Hosta of the Year by the American Hosta Growers Association. See it in this photo and buy it from Plant Delights or Song Sparrow or any other nursery headed up by the hosta-obsessed (find more vendors at the American Hosta Society).

Thursday, February 07, 2008 1:33:02 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [1]