That is one beautiful Calla Lily. Do you grow it in a pot? I wish I lived further south so I could plant them in the ground. Where did you purchase it , if I may ask....I NEED one!!!

And I like your little snail and your hostas are beautiful as well.

So - have you given him a name?
Jan

Sally_grower - Believe it or not, I found it at Lowe's. I do have 5 or 6 varieties of calla. Most are in pots, a couple are in the ground. I do need to bring them all in for the winter. Same issue with my caladium, canna, and elephant ears. I do a lot of digging and storing come September/October.

Jane.ON - His name Mistake. Because I am sure that I will have hundreds of snails by the end of the summer, and I will wish that I had thrown this guy over the fence into my neighbor's yard.

Frosty, I had to laugh at "Mistake". A few years ago, I wanted to test the theory about slugs and copper. So I made a three inch high ring out of copper foil and captured a slug, which I put inside the ring. I watched him attempt to escape the ring for several hours- he would get about 2/3 the way up but then would turn around and head back down, eventually he nestled down into the dirt and gave up. I felt that after all that, I could not kill him. So I did exactly what you should have done with that snail- I tossed him over the fence into the neighbor's yard!!!!

I loved all the pics. That grouping of Francee /patriot/ fire and ice looks wonderful.

HaHa! Mistake was striking a pose, or two! LOVE your plant arrangement with the Francee, Patriot and Fire and Ice, and Night Before Christmas in the background!

We keep a jar of 12% ammonia water on the bench (right next to the 12% bleach water bottle) to let them go swimming in . . .

Mistake seems to be shy - he always turns his back to the camera (perhaps so folks viewing the crime scene video won't be able to ID him.) Oh well, even if he meets his demise you'll have great photos to remember him by.
Jan

The only good snail is a DEAD snail! We have them by the hundreds here, all year long.

I'm wondering about your Night Before Xmas. Yours looks almost too defined UNlike all the other ones I've seen, as well as the form. I once had Lakeside Dividing Line that was very similar to your pic.

-Babka

Escargot anyone

Nice mix of greens and whites.

bkay

i agree with babka...defo not night before xmas..looks like my 'risky buisness'

Cute little guy! Some snails are predatory, and actually eat things that attack your hostas. Maybe this is one of them? I've never looked at snail species and their habits before but it might be an imteresting topic to research.

Beautiful plants, thanx for sharing!

Sandy

Mistake is indeed a very beautiful little creature. I'm just laughing at the image of you carrying him around and posing him on your hosta leaves.

To chime in on what several other responders have said, I really like the four green and white hostas grouped together. I am filing that idea away for future gardening endeavors. But AAAACCKKK! I see maple seeds. Is the little sapling a maple? You need to sic Mistake on the maple.
Christine

I have mostly slugs in my garden, but some less glamorous small brown snails as well. I have found that for whatever reason, the snails stick mainly to the daylily foliage. Occasionally I see one on a hosta, but don't think they do as much damage there as the slugs.

Thanks for the comments, everyone.

Regarding the snail, part of gardening for me is enjoying nature. I'd be fine with some slugs, but I'm not fine with ten thousand slugs, which is why I hunt and kill them. Last night I killed some real huge ones. This spring has been very long and wet in my area, and the slugs are loving it. BTW, I did take several pictures of the snail on non-hosta plants. I'll add a couple of the more interesting ones to the end of this thread when I get home from work.

Regarding my white hosta section, I find that the whites clash with creams and yellows, so I keep them seperate. The "white garden", as I call it, is still a work in progress. I think I have exceeded my hosta budget for the year, but I do want to get some more green/white hosta for this area. I'll post a pic of the entire area later on. The sapling anchoring this section is an Eastern Redbud, which I planted last year and love. There are enormous maples about 20 feet away, which drop thousands of seeds all over my yard. Every seed is fertile. Every seed hatches into vile maple spawn.

Regarding my "Night Before Christmas", I hadn't even considered that it was mislabeled. I bought it from a nursery and it had the grower's Night Before Christmas label on it. I doubt that it's LS Dividing Line, because the white on these leaves emergepure white, not the yellow-fading-into-white of LS Dividing Line. But it does look like Risky Business. It's still just one eye, and I'm sure it was a tissue culture. I'll make note of this plant and check it out more closely next year, when it's more mature.

Frosty,

'Regarding my white hosta section, I find that the whites clash with creams and yellows, so I keep them seperate. '

I totally agree, so I had been avoiding the white/green ones altogether. But i really like what you have done herding them all off together. Brilliant.

My neighbor has 2 enormous maples and the seeds and roots seem to really like it in my yard. As you say, every seed germinates. Some choose to grow in my gutters. Oh yay. One of these days my lawn mower is just going to collapse into a pile of rubble bouncing all over those roots.

Christine

very nice - and the snail is beautiful!

The "white hosta" corner, a work in progress. You'll notice that the Fire & Ice on the right is sporting into something that looks like Clifford's Stingray, with significantly less white and a less twisted leaf:

Snail on Heliopsis 'Lorraine Sunshine':

Snail on rock... and as a plant person, I absolutely love the moss that started growing on my landscaping rocks this year:

First of all,that is a nice looking snail. I don't have a lot of trouble with slugs,but I spray the ones I see with ammonia-water solution. This year,I am seeing a lot more snails for some reason,but they are not the type yours is. I don't spray them. I just pick them off and toss them deep into the woods. They won't get back to my garden in their lifetime! Phil

In the first picture I see some water drops on the leaf and 'Mistake' is trying to get back into his home and close the door. Did he taste some ammonia?