Each year, Green Hill Farm offers a special new hosta introduction exclusively to gardening clubs for their members. This hosta is purchased in quantity by the club from us and then distributed to the membership. This hosta will not appear on any of our other lists and can only be purchased through your club. In this way we hope to support local gardening clubs by allowing them to offer this new introduction to their members at a “wholesale” price.

Let me thank all the local hosta clubs that ordered our “Club” hostas last year. Each year more and more of you take advantage of our high quality offerings at special “wholesale” prices. This year we have another exciting group of hostas for you, some of the newest and best hostas. Please order early as quantities sometimes may be limited.

This year our exclusive club hosta is a very special seedling from our hosta hybridizing program. ‘Coconut Custard’ is a delicious, little yellow hosta with lots of frosty, white wax and rich purple petioles. It is one of our many seedlings from ‘One Man’s Treasure’ , the standard for good purple color in hostas, and is an easy to grow little plant that is the perfect compliment for our ‘Baby Blue Eyes’ .

‘Coconut Custard’ will be only available to clubs this year.

Please contact us for more information about Hosta ‘Coconut Custard’, (pictured) the 2008 exclusive club hosta and for our complete list of special offerings for your club.

Hostas For Garden Clubs, with special Club pricing and rules (please call if uncertain):

‘Coconut Custard’ (Solberg 2007) - (‘Blue Cadet’ X ‘One Man’s Treasure’ o.p.) - Small, (6” X 14”) This little yellow hosta has heart-shaped leaves that are frosted with lots of white wax in Spring, making it rich and creamy. Top that off with bright purple petioles that extend up into leaf. Well proportioned, frosted yellow scapes in July-August with pretty orchid-colored flowers. A delicate look on a sturdy plant. 2008 Club Exclusive! Sold only to clubs. $30

‘Country Mouse’ (Hansen) - (Sport of ‘Bill Dress’s Blue’) - Mini, (3” X 8”) This very cute miniature hosta has heart-shaped blue leaves with nice, clean white margins. This perfect small container plant has lavender flowers in June- July. Really adorable! $10

‘Ginsu Knife’ (Solberg 2002) - (‘Irongate Supreme’ X ‘Green Fountain’) - Medium, (18” X 28”) Imagine a wide, irregularly cream-colored margined hosta with serrate margins and white fragrant flowers in August. The leaves that fountain from the very upright clump have large undulations and some twisting. Unique in color and habit, it is great in a container or in the garden. $10

‘King of Spades’ (Beilstein 2007) - (‘Neat Splash’ X ‘Blue Moon’) Medium, (16” X 30”) This unusual medium blue-green hosta has extremely heavy puckering throughout its spade-shaped leaves. This eye-catcher forms a very tight clump in the garden and is a very tough, dog-proof plant. Lavender flowers in July. $12

‘Libby’ NEW (F. Nyikos 2003) - [‘Beatrice’ X ‘Katerina Jo’(a ‘Spritzer’ hybrid)] - Medium, (15” X 36”) This good growing hosta of unusual parentage sports a clean white margin on oval dark green leaves. Its attractive dense mound holds its bright color well all season, finishing with lavender flowers in August. Sure to catch your eye. $12

‘Lizard Lick’ (Franks 2007) - (‘Pineapple Poll’ seedling) - Small, (12” X18”) This fast growing, spiky mound has long, narrow green leaves with good substance. Slightly bigger than a mini, it is tough enough to flourish in the garden with the “big boys”. Lavender flowers in July-August. $15

‘Millennium’ (Wilkins 1995) - (‘Herb Benedict’ X ‘Sagae’) - Huge (36” X 80”) One of the best extremely large blue hostas because of its huge heavily substanced, rounded, dark blue leaves, good growth rate and heat tolerance. Near white flowers on tall scapes in late June. Impressive in the garden or a large container. $8

‘Miss Ruby’ (A. Wrede 2005) - (‘Katsuragawa Beni’ seedling) - Small, (8” X 18”) This is one of Arthur Wrede’s fine purple-petioled seedlings with the “red” extending up into the leaf blade on both sides of the leaf. The wedge-shaped green leaves have deeply impressed veins and good substance. Pale purple flowers in August. Highly collectable. $20

‘On the Border’ (Beilstein 2007) - (‘Neat Splash’ X ‘Blue Wedgwood’) Medium, (15” X 28”) This very bright white-margined, shiny green-centered, attractive hosta has good substance and great color contrast that calls out from across the garden! Light lavender flowers in July. $12

‘One Man’s Treasure’ (Benedict, Solberg 1999) - (H. longipes hypoglauca seedling) Medium, (14” X 24”) Finally a red-petioled hosta that you can see the red color without standing on your head. A medium-sized clump of shiny, dark green pointed leaves with petioles that are red on both sides up into the leaf blade. Purple flowers in August with red scapes and seed pods. $8

‘Orange Marmalade’ PP #16,742 (Solberg 2002) - (Sport of ‘Paul’s Glory’) - Medium-Large, (18” X 42”) Looking for a hosta guaranteed to “fly out of the nursery”? This one has all year appeal, attractive when it emerges with its blue leaves with a bright yellow center in the spring and amazing in May as it turns orange-yellow or yellow-orange, the color of those Crayola crayons. Beautifully variegated all summer! Lavender flowers in July. $10

‘Singin’ the Blues’ (Beilstein 2007) - (‘Trail’s End’ seedling) Large, (25” X 50”) An upright very blue seedling from ‘Trails End’, this sturdy hosta has leaves that are boat-shaped with a distinctive "pinch" at the base. It has heavily puckered leaves in regular rows and lavender flowers in June. It makes a statement in the background or foreground. $12

‘Thunderbolt’ PP# 12,232 (Crowder) - (Sport of H. sieboldiana) - Large, (28” X 60”) A new sieboldiana sport with a narrow yellow center that becomes white in summer, like ‘Great Expectations’, but has a wide blue-green margin. Variegation in the leaf center becomes more narrow with age until it looks like a lightning bolt. White flowers in June and leaves with very thick substance. $10

‘Titanic’ PP# 12,402 (H. Hansen/Shady Oaks Nursery 1999) - (Sport of ‘Sum and Substance’) - Giant, (32” X 70”) This hosta’s dramatic, wide gold-margined dark green-centered round leaves are bigger than dinner plates. Slightly more compact than its parent, but with more substance if that is possible. Large lavender flowers in July. $12

Remember: Hosta sales continue to be good money makers for hosta clubs... and they bring in new members!

These hostas are sold as bare root divisions in multiples of ten. They have been grown out to fill a one quart or larger pot. These plants have not and will not be divided. All prices are FOB Chapel Hill, NC and are shipped UPS. Your club will only be billed for the exact cost of shipping. No boxing or handling fees! All hostas are guaranteed true to name and are nursery certified pest free.