Hostas around the GCA Circle (mostly Hosta yingeri)

Except for the paler plant in the foreground of the bottom picture.

Hostas are stealing the show this week in the Asian Collections.   Hosta yingeri, named for Barry Yinger who curated the collection in the 80's, is a tall, late blooming hosta collected in Korea in 1985. It's planted various places in the collection, but these two groupings face each other across a grassy strip below the GCA Circle.

Dianthus longicalyx

When I first met this plant 20-odd years ago, it was called Dianthus superbus. It kind of is superb. At least it's spectacular. There were multiple collections of it made in Korea in 1984. We have a problem with keeping them discrete: it's a short lived perennial, almost an annual and it moves about in the garden. It still wanders around in the beds adjoining the parking lot steps. I occasionally see it for sale as a plant. If you like it seeds are really the way to go.