You know for the life of me i cant remember what that was about - oh wait now i remember there was a poster who came into some $$. Family member dies and he wants to spend it fast on a tractor. I think he had a Cub 2180 or he just crashed it (maybe another poster?) and he thought the X300 was a huge jump up. So my comments were based on who is next to go (death wise) so he can get more $$ to spend on a X series like the 700's... But leave it to LB to leave it in a world of confusion - he could have attached the original link so it made some sense. I think I will put my tin foil hat on my head and see if he is out there trying to contact me - :) Duc

mmedici, we had several potted plants that we watch last year do nothing so we decided when we ran out of room in the Brug house to leave them outside over the winter. We had several snaps of really cold weather and snow this winter. These pots sat on the north side of the house in our zone 7a-8b area, I will add above ground with holes cut into the sides of the pots. We were amazed to see green growing out of these pots!! We also left some in the trench of the circle bed and has seen one of them with green leaves. We also sent the Brug house at 32-35 temp this winter due to electrical rates. We also noted that the heaters didn't run for about a week when we had 20 degrees with snow. I was also sick that week so I couldn't go out. The ones in the Hotter house suffered more than the ones in the Brug house. The ones in the hotter house are the harder to find ones, yes we lost some of those. But the ones in the brug house did better as they were the larger trunked ones. We were shocked to see some of them even bloom with the cooler weather. Alot of the smaller green trunks had to be cut back to the soil but we are seeing new growth already. We currently have them outside now in their summer spot, we have had several frosty mornings but they are all doing just great and we are seeing signs of leaves starting. What I'm getting at is, they just might surprise you! But I can tell you if they stay wet in spring rains that don't allow them to dri out some, you will loose them. High water tables do not allow us to plant them into the ground anymore.

I guess it all depends on where you live and what your soil temps are at what time of the year. Next year Esther Opal can come here and watch M. Aureomarginata come up through several inches of Japanese maple leaves. The mound it creates as the leaves rise higher and higher until finally she emerges with leaves ready to unfurl. She is also planted in the only area of my garden that gets zero sun. Several inches of leaves and zero sun, I can't keep her in the ground without sitting a cement block on her. I'm with you Phil - I know what I know and have observed in MY garden, not someone else's garden located somewhere distant from me. Bless M. On Stage and Mountain Snow. They will be the only hosta that look decent this year because they don't come up until May 10, my frost date.

Sounds like it just got kind of top-heavy and it's adapting to that pretty well, all things considered. Maybe the roots were not deep enough to support the wieght of the top and they gave way, or else somewhere in the main trunk/stem there could be a weak area that has caused it to lean over. I agree with the others though, take some cuttings and get them rooted just in case. And maybe you should send a couple of them to me for "safe-keeping" cause I'm a nice person and really want to help you with your brug. Cheryl