We recently visited Hank and Betty, renowned Hosta growers and friends of my parents (who live in La Crosse). Over many years they have transformed their large and steeply pitched country yard into a hostas laboratory.
I can’t remember how many distinct kinds of hosta they had there, somewhere between 100-200. Some were developed by them and were unavailable anywhere else.
The pictures that follow were taken at random throughout their property, on a mostly cloudy day that occasionally lapsed into deep gloom.
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