Abiqua Drinking Gourd Hosta - Two Years Later - September 2023
I planted three Abiqua Drinking Gourd Hostas a little over two years ago . And today, I still have those same three Abiqua Drinking Gourd Hostas. You can see all three of them, planted in a row, in the photo at the top of this post. I bought these based on a post that I read summarizing various cultivars of Hostas that described these as "One of the true giants". I had visions of five-foot-spread hostas with giant, cupped, blue-green foliage. Are they giant? Not yet. You can see that. But, are the leaves large? Yep. I can see a future where they'd be 'giant'. The change in two years is large. Compare September 2021 (here) to the photo above. Also, it appears - to my eye - that they're growing when I look back a year (Summer 2022) and count a similar number of lobes/leaves, but the ones come out of the center sure appear larger this season.