Our Introductions
 

We are sorry we are frequently sold out of a number of these plants.  For the most part, they are not propagated by tissue culture, so we are limited to the number of plants we can produce by division. Many times we cannot produce as many plants as we need to satisfy demand.  

LARGE

 502500 Angel Eyes  Bridgewood Gardens NR 
This is a white centered form of ‘Blue Angel’, similar to and possibly identical to ‘Guardian Angel’. New leaves emerge with a wide white center variegation, which causes a graceful twist to the leaf, much like that of ‘Whirlwind’. As the leaf expands, the blue edge widens and the leaf takes on the typical ‘Blue Angel’ shape. As the growing season progresses, the plant will have both young twisted and older flattened leaves, along with the various stages in between. The center variegation is viridescent, turning green as the leaves age, but still remaining visible. The variegation may not be visible on leaves that emerge in mid summer. The brightness of the leaf center is affected by both temperature and nutrient level.

In past years, we have offered this plant only as divisions of the original stock plant.  We have finally been able to get the plant propagated by tissue culture, which allows us to lower the price significantly.

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VERY LARGE

505100 Big Bopper Bridgewood Gardens NR
An ‘Uncle Albert’ hybrid with large glossy medium green leaves, wide at the base and tapering to a sharp point.  It’s kikutii background is apparent from its leaf shape, its deeply impressed veins, and its low spreading habit.  Its flower scapes bend toward the ground and are held somewhat horizontally, a trait it inherits from both H. kikutii var. caput-avis and H. hypoleuca., from which ‘Uncle Albert’ is bred.  Flowers are near-white.
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MEDIUM

510150 Braveheart Winterberry Farms Not Registered
This is our introduction of a plant that originated at Winterberry Farms.  We discovered this plant in a batch of tissue culture liners of ‘Invincible’ we received from them. It is apparently a tetraploid form of ‘Invincible’, with thicker, darker leaves, glossy, with slightly wavy margins.  Both its flower and scape are larger than ‘Invincible’.  I’m told by Bob Solberg that if it is a true tetraploid (it has not been tested) the fragrance will also be stronger, but I am no judge of such things.
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MINI

511400 Buttercup Baby Bridgewood Gardens NR
Forms a tight mound of small, heart-shaped leaves. Color depends on light level, ranging from chartreuse in low light to nearly white in sun, but in bright light the leaves are a soft yellow. Leaves have good substance for a mini. Purple flowers. This is a seedling from a mix of open-pollinated tardianas, so parentage is unknown. 

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Cathy's Clown
 

Well, actually it's not 'Cathy's Clown'.  If you purchased or are interested in this plant and were told it was our introduction, you might want to read this.  Click here.

MEDIUM

520800 Eleanor Rigby  Winterberry Farms/Bridgewood Gardens  NR

This is a tissue culture sport of ‘Sergeant Pepper’ found by Jim Anderson at Winterberry Farms, named and introduced by us.  This plant has green leaves with a white margin.  The parentage of the plant is not obvious because the leaf has a normal size margin rather than the very wide margin and narrow center of 'Sergeant Pepper'.

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SMALL

539600  Judy Blue Eyes  Bridgewood Gardens NR
 A tardiana hybrid with small blue leaves with an undulating (not piecrusted) edge.  It is not variegated, but it has a tiny, hair-line white edge around the leaves,  caused, I think, by the wax at the edge of the leaf. Lavender flowers.
 Add to Order   $19.95

SMALL

547500 Little Town Flirt Bridgewood Gardens NR
A seedling from one of our unnamed streaked breeders, with lance shaped blue leaves, turning green in summer, with a white margin. Pale lavender flowers.

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548400  Love Child  Bridgewood Gardens  NR

A stabile sport of a streaked ‘Galaxy’ hybrid.  Small pointed, lanceolate dark green leaves with a creamy yellow to white center.  Forms a low mound about a foot across.  Offered for the first time in 2008.

 Add to Order   $49.95

SMALL

548700 Lovely Rita Bridgewood Gardens NR
A seedling of unknown parentage, forms a small, fast growing mound of apple green leaves with a fairly wide, creamy white margin.  Lavender flowers
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LARGE

552900 Miss American Pie Bridgewood Gardens NR
This is another of our 'Uncle Albert' hybrids with long, shiny, medium green leaves, sharply pointed with a heart-shaped base, often folded at the mid-rib. Leaf edges are nicely pie-crusted, and back of the leaves are powdered white.

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MEDIUM

554550 Mountain Mist Bridgewood Gardens NR
This is a sport of 'Allegan Fog'. The only difference is that 'Mountain Mist' lacks the dark green border on 'Allegan Fog'. The plant emerges pure white in the spring, with just a bit of green in the throat.  Green speckles develop gradually and progressively cover the leaf, as shown in the picture, taken in late June.  As the summer progresses, the leaves get darker, until the speckling is no longer obvious.  Because there is a significant amount of green pigment in the leaf for a good part of the year, the plant is quite vigorous.   
 

Plants shipped will be single-eye divisions, similar it size to the plant pictured.

 Add to Order   $39.95

MEDIUM

554900 Mustang Sally  Not Registered
An ‘Uncle Albert’ hybrid with glossy, dark green, broadly ovate leaves with heavy substance, prominent veins and dark red petioles.  Forms a semi-upright mound.

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MEDIUM

562700 Purple Rain  Bridgewood Gardens NR
This is the first of our 'Uncle Albert' hybrids to be released, from a cross with 'Halcyon' made in 1998.  It's a medium size plant with blue leaves, ovate with sharply pointed tips, slightly cupped, with rippled edges.  Leaf petioles are purple spotted. Flowers are pale lavender.

At the 2002 First Look, a competition for new hosta  introductions, American Hosta Society judges named 'Purple Rain' the best blue seedling and runner-up for best seedling in the show.

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SMALL-MEDIUM

563670  Rebel Heart  Bridgewood Gardens NR
A stabilized form of a streaked seedling from our breeding line that originated with 'Sea Prize'.  In the spring, the leaves are light blue-green with a creamy yellow margin. In the summer the margin turns white.
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MEDIUM

563700  Rebel ‘Rouser  Bridgewood Gardens NR
Bright gold leaves are nicely puckered and held upright, shaped somewhat like an arrowhead and a bit cupped.  Near white flowers.  A ‘Zounds’ hybrid.

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MEDIUM

566800  Runaround Sue Bridgewood Gardens NR
A seedling of one of our unnamed streaked breeders and H. yingeri, the leaves are fairly typical of the species, smooth, shiny medium to dark green, with wavy edges, but with a gold margin.  Purple flowers.

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LARGE

567800 Satisfaction Bridgewood Gardens 2000 
This is a sport of 'Piedmon Gold' found here at our nursery. It forms a mound about 3’ wide and has the same elegant form as ‘Piedmont Gold’, wide and low growing, with nicely rippled, large, heart-shaped leaves. It has the same rich gold color in its wide, irregular edge, but the center of the leaf is dark green. When the plant matures, the gold margin measures nearly 2" wide. Unless the plant is grown in the sun, the bright yellow edge does not fade to cream or white, so the contrast holds through the summer. Flowers are pale lavender, again identical to the parent.
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Click here to read 'Getting Satisfaction', the saga of how we originally found the plant, written in 1994.

In 2007, Walters Gardens, North America's leading grower of wholesale perennials, selected 'Satisfaction' to be one of the first 12 selections included in their new Designer Hosta™ Collection.

From their catalog: "Designer Hosta™ candidates are overwintered in each of the six testing sites for a minimum of two growing seasons and evaluated based on the list of criteria above. They are compared to all other cultivars known to the specialty hosta growers, which often number 500 or more. Only those cultivars that perform superbly in all of the testing sites nationwide may become a member of our exclusive Designer Hosta™ Collection."

MEDIUM

570600 Sergeant Pepper  Bridgewood Gardens 2001
This is a seedling that we selected here at the nursery and first offered for sale in the fall of 1995. It forms a medium sized mound of heart-shaped, wavy-edged leaves, about 5" wide and 6" long. The foliage is chartreuse to gold, depending on light intensity, with a medium green center streak, about 2" across at its widest point. The leaf has good, heavy substance, some puckering, and tolerates sun well. The flowers are near white, with just a slight tint of lavender.
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MINI

577800 Surfer Girl Bridgewood Gardens 2000  
With huge leaves and unusual variegation being all the rage in the hosta world today, here I am introducing a new green miniature. I hope there are some people out there who still like small hostas, because I think this one is pretty cute. I’ve named it ‘Surfer Girl’ because of the wavy edges on the foliage.

The lanceolate leaves are sharply pointed and deeply rippled, dark green with a satiny sheen, about 2 to 2½ inches long and 1 to 1¼ inches wide. The wavy edges of the leaves are very pronounced and attractive. The plant is stoloniferous and increases rapidly to form a mound about 12 to 15 inches wide. The tubular flowers are pale lavender with purple stripes inside, borne on rather tall (18-24") scapes.

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MEDIUM

581930 Tupelo Honey Bridgewood Gardens NR

This is a seedling that’s been around our nursery for quite a while.  It forms a wide, mound of yellow leaves, rather low growing and arching.  Lavender flowers.

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LARGE

582400 Uncle Albert  Bridgewood Gardens NR

This plant is the result of a cross between hypoleuca and kikutii ‘Caput Avis’ and anyone familiar with these two will recognize the family resemblence. It forms a large, wide mound.  Before we divided it, our four year old stock plant, growing in a 25 gallon container, was 48” wide and 18” tall. I suspect that a mature plant would be larger, but we have had to keep dividing the plant for production. The leaves are, 15” long and 12” wide, glossy medium green, white beneath, with prominent veins and rippled edges.

The most unusual feature of the plant is its flower scape and blooms.   The scape is very dark purple, spotted almost to the bud.  The unopened bud is the largest I have ever seen on a hosta, with a large vestigal leaf, up to 6” across and 12” long, at the base of each bud.  Some scapes are held upright, arching at the top, while others lean and emerge lower in the foliage.  Each bud produces a large number of lavender flowers, and when they first start to open, the flower head can be almost as large as a hydrangea.

This plant has proven to be one of my favorite breeders and has produced some excellent seedlings, several of which we are currently offering.

 Add to Order   $150.00