Since our first year of business in 1995, we have been offering nearly 200 varieties of hosta each season.  This season is no different.

With over 300 hosta selections displayed among the perennial gardens, you are sure to find a few you either don't have, or just need to take home.  We stock almost all hosta displayed in the gardens.   

Each year, a few dozen more selections are added to our inventory list.  This year, we have added over thirty-five new hosta introductions.  Many of these are new to us and to the hosta market.

Hosta List
Hosta Database

* A sport of 'Halcyon' with the same intense blue-green leaf center

* Emerges with a gold margin early in the spring, then changes to pure white later in the season

* The leaves hold up well in the garden all season long until the "first frost"

* Light lavender flowers appear on 28 inch scapes in midsummer

This fantastic sport of 'Halcyon' was developed by Patricia Scolnik of Chapel Hill, NC. The beautiful blue leaves are edged by a creamy-yellow margin that brightens to creamy-white by midsummer. Lavender flowers top the clump in late summer. This durable hosta received its name because it looks great until autumn's "first frost."

Hosta List
Hosta Database

In The Hostapedia, by Mark Zilis describes every hosta that he has encountered over the past thirty years.

This includes forms he studied in gardens and nurseries throughout the United States and those he observed in native habitats and collections in Japan.

It encompasses all cultivars registered with the American Hosta Society and others listed in a wide variety of publications and websites.

The 1900 photos in The Hostapedia, highlight the most important hostas, as well as many unusual collector's plants and hosta oddities.

    * Over 7400 hosta descriptions listed A-Z.
    * 1897 color photos.
    * Complete index of hosta names.
    * Factual and entertaining.

The Hostapedia is the most definitive work on hostas in print and a must for every collector, nurseryman, and gardener.

K & K Gardens is offering the Hostapedia at the exceptionally low price of $69.95.  This is almost $20 less than Amazon.  

If interested, please contact us to secure an order.  You may pick them up immediately, have them shipped to you, or pick them up this spring.   

Hosta: Fingerprint

Plant Size:  24" high by 48" wide

Leaf Detail:  Gold Center.  8 1/2" long by 6 1/2" wide; deep green line divides the leaf center and leaf margin, creating an interesting "watermark" effect. Foliage changes from greenish in the center with a gold edge to gold in the center with a light green margin.

Flowering:  Pale lavender flowers are produced from mid-July into early August on three-foot scapes.

Growing:  Medium growth rate

Comments:  Ever-changing sport of 'Paul's Glory' with no two leaves quite being the same.

K & K Gardens will have this specialty hosta available for spring of 2010. 

Since it is extremely new to the market, and considered rare, we will only have a very limited supply.  To reserve the hosta 'Fingerprint', please contact us.

Hosta List
Hosta Database

Growing Hosta
Hosta Library
Hosta Society
The Hosta Network