I was poking through some old magazines when I found an old article on miniature hostas. The list is on the two-page snip species mentioned? pet. Does anyone have experience with any of the species mentioned? If applicable, I would very much like to use them similarly to the row of pots in the photo. Would any take being frozen in pots during winter? ...heat in pots in summer?

Have several varieties, but all in the ground.

I've got many of them and will post some pictures with comments. I see they have 'Kinbotan' on the list twice. I'm farther north than you; so my winter experience will be different. I bury plants I really want to keep, in my veggie garden for winter, or in the case of the 'Baby Bunting' gang which share a trough, I mound unscreened compost over the pot for winter, again in my veggie garden.

'Silver Threads and ...'
This has grown best for me in a pot. This is quite a mature plant. It changes colour during the season. This picture was last week in a slow spring in Ottawa.

This photo beginning of July last year and you see the colour change starting to happen.


'Blue Mouse Ears' - a good, very hardy little plant. I have my largest one in a trough, but put it in my veggie garden for winter. But I also now have a division in the ground with a few other minis. July 19 last year.


'Cherish' is the member of the 'Baby Bunting' family which grows most poorly for me. I'm always amazed when it emerges and I thought I had lost it this year, but it has finally poked up a little shoot.


'Dragon Tails' - I LOVE this enthusiastic, wiggly, yellow hosta. July 27 last year.

'Frosted Mouse Ears' - I like this one and it grows well, but I have trouble telling it apart from 'Mighty Mouse' which follows. Photo July 9 last year.


'Mighty Mouse' - as I said, very similar to FME. Also July 9.


'Holy Mouse Ears' - I had this one and it reverted to solid blue for me within a couple of years as did 'Snow Mouse' and a couple of other white or light-centred members of the family. The only one which has remained light in the centre for me for more than 3 years is 'Pure Heart'.

This is my 'Pure Heart' July 9.


'Kinbotan' is a very small, very fast-growing mini which a light yellow margin and it makes a good ground cover hosta as it quickly forms a dense mat. July 9.

'Baby Bunting' is a fast-growing, small, blue hosta. I have three divisions of it in three different parts of my garden. July 9.


'Dixie Chickadee' did not grow well for me and died.

'Tears of Joy' is one of the tiniest and also one of the most unique hostas I have. Very tiny, folded leaves and when it blooms, the flowers have no petals, just their private parts. July 27.


'Cameo' is another 'Baby Bunting Sport' and it's grown fairly well for me.

Not on your list, but worth considering are the other two 'Baby Bunting' sports - 'Hope' and 'Pandora's Box'. H has grown the best for me, but my newer PB is doing fairly well too. My original one had less green/blue and eventually died. 'Hope' July 27


'Pandora's Box' July9


'Cracker Crumbs' is, in spring, a lovely yellow mini with a very tiny green margin. It will green up later in the season. I have a division in a pot and I've also got some of it in a border. July 19 and quite green.

Didn't have time earlier, but I'd also like to nominate a few other mini hostas that you could use.

Any of the "Lemon-Lime" family. I have two of the - 'Lemon Frost' (white margin) and 'Twist of Lime' (green margin). They grow fast. I use them in a border, but they'd grow well in a pot too.



'Kifukurin Ko Mame', if you can find it, is similar to 'Kinbotan' but more wavy. It's an older variety; so it might be difficult to find, but I love mine and have it in 4 places in the yard.


'Pixie Vamp' is a great mini which I like a lot and one of the few which I think was totally ready to be planted in the garden rather than in a pot though it would do well in a pot.


'Popo' is one of the smallest-leaved varieties I have. Tiny blue leaves.


'X-rated'


'Lakeside Zinger'

I also meant to nominate my other mouse. This is 'Country Mouse' and it's NOT a member of the ME family although it shares a trough with the family in my yard. Leaves are a bit smaller and it grows well. One of my favourites.