Garden Bed #40 - page 3

Mini 'Tiny Tears'

O - R. Savory - 1977
origin - Venusta hybrid
size - D
leaf - green
flowers - lavender / July-August

Progeny:
Bread Crumbs - sport - w/g
Cookie Crumbs - sport - g/w
Croutons - sport - os
Lisa Marie - 'Elvis Lives' x PP
Xanadu Might Mite - 'Xanadu Virginia Mary' x PP

2" tall. Light Shade. Medium green, cordate, flat leaves, 1.5" x 1". 10" scapes with purple flowers. A good little rock garden type. Tiny green. This little H. venusta hybrid to 6" wide is a great addition to the shady rock garden. The tight clumps of tiny green heart shaped leaves are topped with dark lavender flowers on 6" scapes in early summer...absolutely charming!
Comments - MyHostas Database: 'Tiny Tears'

Hosta 'Tiny Tears' is really a favorite in Marlys' Gardens. It's a true dwarf size plant, smaller than hosta 'Venusta'. It's easily grown in container-gardens, pots, rock gardens, or in a mini-flower bed. It produces the littlest, sweetest, daintiest, fanciest little-bitsy flowers. They are just precious. And I love the name, 'Tiny Tears'.

Here's the name - emotionally attached thing again! I'm a 1950's child. There wasn't much money for anything extra but my parents managed to buy me 2 dolls during that era. The first dolly was called 'Tiny Tears'. She cried real tears if fed water from a tiny baby-doll bottle. She had 2 tiny holes beside her eyes where tears escaped. That was a big deal! Then came dolly, Betsy Wetsy, she had real hair (not a hard painted head) and her eyes opened & closed, and she pee-ed her diaper if given water from her little baby-doll bottle. The water went in one end & out the other. Oh, my she was the Cat's Meow!

Hosta 'Tiny Tears' is a sweet little doll-baby too! She only needs water to soak up in her tiny little roots. She doesn't cry or pee her pants. I think she probably got her name due to her tear-shaped tiny, shiny green leaves not because Savory had a Tiny Tears doll-baby in 1950 - something But then you never know for sure - do you?

Hosta 'Emerald Tiara'

O - Walters Gardens 1988
'Golden Scepter' sport
sz - small
leaf - 4 x 2" / Yellow/Green margin
purple flowers

Registered 1988 by Walters Gardens / sport of Golden Scepter which sported from Golden Tiara. Mark Zilis "Hosta Handbook" ranks it as one of the best in the "Tiara" series. Dense, medium size mound - 17" tall. Unique, fun, easy to grow little hosta.

See Bed 5 - page 2 for another picture of Hosta 'Emerald Tiara'.

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