{"id":63,"date":"2010-06-27T20:46:02","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T20:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernloon.net\/wordpress30\/?p=63"},"modified":"2025-04-21T17:41:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T17:41:55","slug":"hosta-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"Hosta Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We recently visited Hank and Betty, renowned Hosta growers and friends of my parents (who live in La Crosse).\u00a0 Over many years they have transformed their large and steeply pitched country yard into a hostas laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t remember how many distinct kinds of hosta they had there, somewhere between 100-200. \u00a0Some were developed by them and were unavailable anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>The pictures that follow were taken at random throughout their property,\u00a0 on a mostly cloudy day that occasionally lapsed into deep gloom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/northernloon.smugmug.com\/2010\/HostaFarm\/n-bjv7HH\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69\" title=\"P6211647\" src=\"http:\/\/www.northernloon.net\/travelogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P6211647.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"98\" \/><\/a> (Click thumbnail to see the complete set of photos)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently visited Hank and Betty, renowned Hosta growers and friends of my parents (who live in La Crosse).\u00a0 Over many years they have transformed their large and steeply pitched country yard into a hostas laboratory. I can&#8217;t remember how many distinct kinds of hosta they had there, somewhere between 100-200. \u00a0Some were developed by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/?p=63\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hosta Madness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2196,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/2196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernloon.net\/travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}