====Correction==== 'Invincible' should be labeled as 'Royal Standard'.

"The shortest day of Winter is getting closer."
How true!!! I can't wait to celebrate the winter solstice and have the days grow longer again!
John I love this thread you're doing with the pic updates.
Oh how I long for spring when everything is fresh and new.

Shade,

All the different photos will help get us through the Winter.

The alphabet photos make the best "catalog" to build a wish list from.

Cowboy

I need to know how much land you have to be able to have so many different varieties of hosta. Have you eliminated most of your grass in order to have them?

Wonderful pictures as always.

Connie

Cowboy I agree and I've added some to the wish list as well.
Hopefully all the photos in the Gallery and the forum will enable a whole new crop of hostaholics.

Connie,

If you click on this link: My house with the gardens I think you can pick out my house (it has pine trees in the back of the yard by the woods and you can only see the mulch in the gardens). The woods behind me belongs to a church and they let me plant in part of the woods (you should be able to see some mulch in the woods). My property is only 1/4 acre but The Hostas are packed in.

Cowboy

WOW !!! Can I find my house the same way you showed yours?
How do you do that? please let me know.

I'm not fortunate enough to have a church with permission to use their land behind me. The backyard neighbor I have is such a lazy character he only mows about once a month and sometimes not even then in the summer.
He did no fall cleanup and I expect the leaves to all end up in my yard over the winter. Maybe the long grass will keep some of them in his yard.

We have lived here into our 18th. year and I have only seen his wife 3 or 4 times. The last time in '06 when I asked her husband to tell her to come walk through the garden before I had a grarden walk. Thank goodness their very scary German Shepard dog died as I couldn't be in garden when he was out. They did have one of those underground fences to keep him in but once he came over anyway and I never trusted the fence again.

We can't pick our neighbors can we.

Connie

Connie,

I will try to help you find your house on the Bing map. The easy way would be to enter an address in the line just above the map; however, when I try that it says "Server is temporarily unavailable".

You also have to have the bird's eye view available in your area; we will not know if it is available until you try it.

So, use the Bing map with my house on it.

Change the map to ROAD (this is on the top part of the map).

Zoom out (same area on the map) so you can find the city where you live.

Use the cursor to center your location on the map.

Zoom in to your house (you may have to zoom in and re-center your house to get there).

Now you can select AERIAL and then select BIRD'S EYE VIEW. If you have this option you will get your house.

Hopefully I didn't miss anything. Just let me know if you have any questions,
Cowboy