Shining a Light on Liberty

To quote one of Patrick Henry’s gardening descendants, “Give me Hosta ‘Liberty’ or give me death”. Looking good in the garden this week is the amazing sport of Hosta ‘Sagae’, discovered back in the late 1990s at Virginia’s Mobjack Nursery. Twenty seven years after its introduction, Hosta ‘Liberty’ is still near the top of our list of all-time greatest hostas. In the nursery, it poses a challenge since it takes two years from a liner (small plant from tissue culture), to show the wide edge, so it isn’t that impressive in a one year old pot. Like most things in life, patience will be rewarded. The wide, golden yellow border changes to cream in summer.