Hosta Keepsake Chelone and light green checkerboard pattern

and light green checkerboard pattern with a silver streak down the center of each leaf

which was a sport of Hosta 'Francee'

a splendid addition to an average/moist site in the woodland garden and a great way to fool the neighborhood gardening know-it-all

but what will really shock you are the intense orange flowers that top the 6' tall clumps all summer

the first recorded success of the "impossible" cross of Helleborus niger and the distantly related Helleborus foetidus

Hosta Keepsake Chelone and light green checkerboard patternHosta 'Keepsake' was a seedling (Hosta 'Fascination' x op) in 1998 when hosta breeder Gil Jones moved from his Michigan garden south to Georgia. Something about it was so charming that we enticed Gil to share the plant. We've kept it growing over the ensuing decade, so it's finally time to share. Hosta 'Keepsake' forms a tidy 9" tall x 2' wide clump of small, medium green, wavy leaves, each surrounded by a nice, creamy gold border. The clumps are