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  1. Palustris

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    Here is a challenge for you. Can you decipher this Hosta label?
    hosta1.jpg
    The Host is a small, plain light green leafed one.
    TIA
     
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    It's a Hosta :heehee:
     
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      Plant formerly known as hosta?
       
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        If the leaves are mostly green with a bit of variegation it's likely Fragrant Bouquet. I had one in Belgium and it thrived but a cutting I brought here has been annihilated by the snails.

        There's also a Fragrant Blue with glaucous blue foliage but I haven't met one in person.
         
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        Wrong shaped leaves for Fragrant Bouquet. These are narrow and a lot lighter green.
        Thanks
         
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        Nothing on the Miniature and Small Hosta site.
        Thanks
         
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        I will take a picture when the plant has recovered from being dug out from under a shrub.
         
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          On another look, I believe it reads "the diamonds are behind the fake panelling in the library" :heehee:
           
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            Intriguing… Can we see more of the right hand end of the marker, as the second word looks like “Bo…”
            Is that a date? Then something then Bo… ???
             
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            Could the first word be yellow, with a previous name underneath?

            To me the second word looks like it might be Boo rather than Bou
             
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            If it’s been under a. Bush the colour may be more muted, less variegated than in normal light
             
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