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 fifty new Hosta selections.  Many of these are new to us and to the Hosta market.

H. Praying Hands

The upright narrow leaves of 'Praying Hands' gives it an unusual look like no other hosta. Each green leaf is rolled and folded into a tube shape, displaying the prominent veins on the back of the leaf.  A thin white margin borders the outside edge of the leaf. Certainly a collector's hosta and for the customer in search of something unusual. Fascinating!

H. First Frost

* 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."

H. Liberty

This sport of 'Sagae' features a wider, more dramatic border, especially noticeable on younger plants. The leaves are thicker than 'Sagae', indicating its probability of being a polyploid. Like 'Sagae', the yellow margin fades to creamy-white later in the season. Lavender flowers top the clump in early summer.

Hosta 'Autumn Frost' is the latest in a long line of fantastic sports from Hosta 'Halcyon'. Hosta 'Autumn Frost' is a probable tetraploid sport of the lovely Hosta 'First Frost', which is a creamy-edged sport of Hosta 'Halcyon'. The 1' tall x 16" wide clump is composed of thick powder blue leaves with an exceptionally wide creamy yellow margin...simply stunning. In late spring, the clump is topped with stalks of light lavender flowers...a hummingbird delight.

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 retail.

With the increasing number of hosta cultivars being introduced each year it is increasingly difficult for nurserymen and gardeners to choose just the right hostas for their sales areas and gardens. To this end the American Hosta Growers Association established the AHGA Hosta of the Year in 1996. It is selected by a vote of AHGA members. Award winners are hostas that are good garden plants in all a regions of the country, are widely available and in sufficient supply and retail for about $15.00 in the year of selection.

American Hosta Growers Association 'Hosta of the Year' winners:

• 1996 Hosta 'So Sweet'
• 1997 Hosta 'Patriot'
• 1998 Hosta 'Fragrant Bouquet'
• 1999 Hosta 'Paul's Glory'
• 2000 Hosta 'Sagae'
• 2001 Hosta 'June'
• 2002 Hosta 'Guacamole'
• 2003 Hosta 'Regal Splendor'
• 2004 Hosta 'Sum and Substance'
• 2005 Hosta 'Striptease'
• 2006 Hosta 'Stained Glass'
• 2007 Hosta Paradigm
• 2008 Hosta Blue Mouse Ears
• 2009 Hosta Earth Angel
• 2010 Hosta First Frost
• 2011 Hosta Praying Hands
• 2012 Hosta Liberty
  

'Lakeside Paisley Print' is definitely a Hosta to get! 

Mary Chastain has created beautiful plants during her career, but this is quite possibly her most stunning. Heart-shaped leaves are gently cupped and edged with a fantastic, wide green margin that undulates softly.  A narrow, feather-like creamy-white pattern dances irregularly through the center of the leaf.  Not only does this plant have the looks, but it is a good grower with above average substance.

Hosta 'Lakeside Paisley Print' forms a mound about 12" tall and 24" across. This exquisite plant is topped with pale lavender flowers in mid summer. 

Limited supply.

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.