Hosta Virginia Reel Spring ephemerals After severe winters

After severe winters

Moss phlox make dense evergreen groundcovers that can suppress most weeds

and once established is almost impossible to eradicate

with the leaf tips on the old foliage becoming pendent

Hosta Virginia Reel Spring ephemerals After severe wintersSome hostas become legendary by being grown in everyone's garden, while other hostas become legendary because no one can get them. Hosta 'Virginia Reel' is the latter. A streaked Hosta 'Virginia Reel' (Hosta 'Crepe Suzette' x Hosta 'Riptide') in Judy Springer's Great Falls, Virginia, garden was the star of the 1995 Hosta convention and winner of the Savory Shield Award. I next saw the stable form four years later in Roy Herold's Massachusetts garden,