Hello all- I am new here so I'm not really sure how this works, but I thought it was worth trying... I have a dear friend who lost his son a few years ago. His family has spent numerous hours creating a memory garden for their son on a piece of land that was donated to them. The land is gorgeous and it is wonderful as it is used by youth camps so many people are able to see and use this wonderful garden. My friend was very kind and had a stone made for my brother who has also passed and placed it in the garden as well. We are planning on making a trip to visit my friend this summer and I would love to have a few plants for him and his family to make part of their garden. This space is wooded so receives very limited light, so hostas would work great. I have a few plants that I could trade, unfortunately none of them are too special, but hopefully someone out there would be interested... Iris - Unknown color Chives Sedum ground cover with yellow flowers Striptease hosta Golden Tiara hosta Unknown varigated hostas Francee hosta Ditch lilies... everyone's favorite! :) If anyone is interested please just send me a note. Again, I'm brand new to this, but would love to do one or two larger swaps. Thanks in advance!

Hello all- I am new here so I'm not really sure how this works, but I thought it was worth trying... I have a dear friend who lost his son a few years ago. His family has spent numerous hours creating a memory garden for their son on a piece of land that was donated to them. The land is gorgeous and it is wonderful as it is used by youth camps so many people are able to see and use this wonderful garden. My friend was very kind and had a stone made for my brother who has also passed and placed it in the garden as well. We are planning on making a trip to visit my friend this summer and I would love to have a few plants for him and his family to make part of their garden. This space is wooded so receives very limited light, so hostas would work great. I have a few plants that I could trade, unfortunately none of them are too special, but hopefully someone out there would be interested... Iris - Unknown color Chives Sedum ground cover with yellow flowers Striptease hosta Golden Tiara hosta Unknown varigated hostas Francee hosta Ditch lilies... everyone's favorite! :) If anyone is interested please just send me a note. Again, I'm brand new to this, but would love find some special plants for my friend. Thanks in advance!

Those two plants are sooooo different! Here, both are planted in heavy shade. Golden Meadows wops the daylights out of guardian angel for growth. this makes sense since golden Meadows is far greener later in the season and therefore more chlorophyll. what a difference the age of the plant and the growing zone makes in terms of variagation lost through the season. here the guardian angel loses none and the golden Meadows remains with some, albeit subtle but certainly not entirely green. the golden Meadows becomes a much fuller plant than the Guardian Angels airiness. it's a really tough choice but if I had to make it golden Meadows wins. then again we have beauty queen to make up for it. fwiw, hh

yikes.. i ddint even notice the leek like depth .. and that again.. can be a media failure .. or your fault.. in the sense of potting it too fluffy.. and it sinking in the pot ... when you use the right media.. you can pack the plant in there... so it wont sink ... yet the good media.. still allows water flow .... i hope babka sees this.. and maybe gives us a pic of an unpotted hosta of hers.. in her supreme media mix ... to my eye.. your plant.. looks like it was struggling to put roots down the center.. with a few longer roots that went to the side of the pot that reads media failure .. in the sense that when you watered.. the water did not flow thru the media as a whole .. but tended to puddle and run down the sides of the pot.;. so thats where the hosta put the roots ... but that leaves most of your root mass .. not performing to perfection ... most of us.. deal with annuals in pots.. and since they die or are replaced every season.. you never really experience this ... but we are .. quite out of the ordinary ... growing perennials in pots.. and that add another level of problems ... and requires more frequent replacement of media ... and.. i am discussing this so you can learn .. and trust me on life getting in the way.. i have many more pots than you, that needed to be repotted 2 years ago ... lol ... so dont go all touchy feely on me .... unfortunately for me.. its more of a .... i dont care anymore thing ... ken