Very nice! You will be moving those hosta away from her soon enough. Mine is 5 yrs old this year. I left a lot of space around the Empress to reign at the top of my garden.

Yes, definitely get it planted outside if that's the case...they are not meant to be indoor plants. Are you sure that's Empress Wu? I thought it was more blue and the leaves are fuller in shape? Or maybe that develops later on...

Ouch. All of us who are guilty of similar mishaps probably wince first while looking at the photos, groan, and sometimes laugh at ourselves afterwards....I don't know what order these go for you but I usually end up laughing at myself while I am trying "to repair" my booboo - like...how in the heck can I fix a perfect but half-ripped off shoot? (Like Cicely's KR shoot) Put a splinter on it and tape it?? LOL I am pathetic but the thought did occur to me - splinter it, then after it fully unfurled, put it in water in a vase or bowl and enjoy for a week or more.

i have no experience with this place.. but scroll down to the pic of what i might call a one ... 2 .. and three year old TC .... though if well grown .... the 3rd pic might be a late second year plant ... the starter plant on the left.. is probably a one year plug .... and what a grower might receive in a spring TC shipment from the lab ... and if they are lucky.. by end of that year ... the middle pic .... and so on ... and of course ... you must include what the cultivar is ... as to how fast it will grow to maturity.. and a giant like EW .... is going to be 5 to 7 years to such .... depending on what size root mass you buy ... if it were me.. i would bare root every plant.. for placement in mother earth ... but this time of year.. i would be very concerned about winter heave ... and would mulch heavily to avoid such .... so.. per your pic.. at least a second .... and more likely a third year plant .... as i said.. it was not a TC plug this spring ... imo ... ken https://www.hostasdirect.com/about-our-hostas/