Your hostas are lovely!

What a peaceful place! Thanks for sharing pics of your lovely setting.

Welcome to the hosta forum...your gardens and brick pathway are absolutely gorgeous!

Wow! Beautiful, Love the brickwork.
Jen

Your gardens and setting are lovely and so peaceful. You have some great Hostas.
Cher

I'm jealous! Your gardens are breath taking!!

Beautiful, indeed.

Like you, I have a property which is partially in bush. Mine is cedar, and I have been toying with the idea of extending the garden into the bush, - possibly using hostas, etc. The rest of the property is so full of gardens, there is not much grass to cut, and that is the way I like it.

Can you recommend any other plants other than hostas which might do well in the Full Shade of a zone 4/5 garden? I'd appreciate any input that you have to share. I really like what I see here, and emulating it here would be sincere compliment to your work.

jroot1@cogeco.ca

Oh my god, your yard is gorgeous! Awesome job! Makes mine look horrible.
I love your brick walkways! I'd be spending all day out there!

thank you for sharing! what beautiful gardens! I love foxglove, but have had no luck with it at all. I love how you placed the Heuchera outside in the rocks! Mary

Nice layout, nice hardscaping and nice setting. Thanks for the pix.

tj

Absolutely stunning!
Your pathways are truly a piece of artwork! I have zone envy- it's so blazing hot here in Nc right now- my hostas look a little tired. Your gardens are truly a show place! Thanks for sharing and keep those pics coming!
kasha77

In response to jroot:
In the last few years, I have worked hard at finding good shade tolerant/loving companion plants to go with my hosta. I have found some and will share in a separate post.

I am totally in lust!

Robin in NC

You have a spectacular place. Thank for posting the pics!!! I think you did an exceptional job of blending and transitioning the civilized and uncivilized settings so they 'go' together!

Great work!
Gayle

There are some very nice perennials that love the shade (no or very little direct sun) and compliment the hosta garden.
The following are ones that I have put in my gardens in the last few years:

Brunnera - Mine do not like any sun at all, they go limp!
Epimedium - Do well in shade
European Ginger - Seem to tolerate shade well
Helllebore - They do well in full summer shade
Ferns - Of course. I have Japanese Painted, Japanese Tall, Japanese Holly, and Cinnamon
Japanese Yellow Grass - It bows down towards the sun
Ligularia - Absolutely no direct afternoon sun
Pulmonaria (Lung Wort) - Mine do not like any sun
Varigated Jacobs Ladder - Do not like much summer sun
Varigated Solomon's Seal - Do quite well in the shade

Now of course there are other shade tolerant perennials that go well in a hosta garden.
I hope you will post your favorites.

Thank you for posting your pictures. You have very nice design.

Beverly

OMG = oh my GOSH!(not to break one of the 10 commandments)

no slug holes, rabbit bites, deer chewing....not even
one little weed! How beautiful!

Absolutely stunning. I am green with envy and will be out in my pathetic space once school is over attempting to sorta, kinda make my garden as beautiful and restful. Thanks for sharing!

So much coveting go on here, (with me) another 'commandment' broken (eh, Sassy?)! I even envy and
covet the rocks you have! Sigh--love it all! Good job, indeed!

In your last pic. of plants in pots on your deck, what is the one on the far right bottom, please?

Thanks for sharing with us what a lot of hard work can produce!!

janice

Janice,

Assuming you are talking about the picture with six hostas, they are clockwise from the top:

Purple Profusion
Katsuragawa Beni
Pineapple Poll (I beleive this is the one you were referring to)
Lakeside Cupcake
Honeysong
Revolution

Thank you everyone for the compliments. Its funny, whenever I see other postings of hosta gardens and yards, I always think they are much nicer looking than mine!

Ron

Beautiful setting and gardens. Thanks for posting your pics.

Paul

Like cyn427, I will be out in my pathetic space but thinking of your photos! There's nothing I can add that hasn't been said already. Magnificent work.

What a lovely garden. My setting is so similar to your - we live in a densely wooded area & have been working to incorporate hostas & ferns for many years. I have been longing for a brick or stone path/patio/walkway like your for years - can't grow grass under all those trees. I'm having trouble not breaking a few of those commandments too - coveting, lusting, etc.... You have created a beautiful space. How do you control the voles/moles??

Did you lay every brick yourself? Outstanding garden all the way around. I know you didn't do all that overnight! lol We garden for ourselves but get enjoyment from others appreciating our efforts.

Even the hostas are without flaw!!!!!

Connie

I have a wonderful cure for voles. His name is Spirit the tabby cat. He pretty much keeps the yard clear of voles and (sorry to some of you) chipmunks. The deer are kept at bay by spraying Plantskedd.
Hostas look great in part this year because we have been blest by good hosta weather so far this year (not too hot and very wet). And no hail storm like the one early on last year that shredded my hosta and made me sick!
The backyard started with a design in the eighties. The deck was first, built in 1987. The pathway was laid down brick by brick by me in 1990. The rest followed since then.
Yes, we do this for ourselves, but it IS nice to have it appreciated by others.

your gardens are really lovely! Looks like a wonderful spot to hang out and relax.

What is the chartreuse and blue puckered one near Rainforest Sunrise?

Thank you, Ron, for naming your hosta on the deck, for me/us! I love the look of 'Pineapple Poll'!
I have 'PUC' and love it's look, so I guess I WOULD like that one, too! :O)

For coll 123:
That is Tokudama Aureonebulosa, one of my favorites.
Got it 3 years ago, had 4 eyes, has 10 this year. Doing nicely.

Ron, since you're in NE Ohio, you should join us in the Midland Hosta Society. Our auction in August is to-die-for. Nancy

Ron, came across your post which I missed before...what a beautiful place you have. I am in the midst of planting shade companion plants, so appreciate your thoughts on light for the list you have. Hope you will keep posting pics!

Oh, forgot...the potted hostas that you overwinter in the garage...do you have any special tricks for overwintering? I have done it 3-4 years now with about an 85% rate, but I'd like to improve on that because I do not like losing even one! I overwintered some out in our shed this last year instead of the garage, and the mice got into them and I lost a bunch. My biggest problems have to do with springtime moisture levels...I do not water them at all in the garage, come spring, I try to make sure at least 1/2 have broken dormancy before going outside. (Leave them in the garage too long, they dry out and die, water them in the garage, or take them out too early, they can rot.) Would love to hear how you handle yours. For this next year, I'm thinking about giving each small one an ice cube in Feb/March. Just to add some moisture back in as the weather warms up.

Oh my word! I think I need this picture as my wallpaper.
What an absolutely serene,beautiful garden,really,no words to be said, about how it looks,you have a gift with design.
Thank you for sharing, now, I wanna visit,got coffee?
cAROL

Just beautiful. I agree, Ohio has had wonderful hosta weather this year, at least this past spring. I wish it would continue. I live in Northern Ashland County and I see that Wooster got 1.75 inches of rain yesterday while we didn't even get a rain cloud! Beautiful place you have there.

Just1morehosta:
Plenty of coffee.... 50/50 though, can't handle high test anymore. Come on over...
Mary4b:
This is the second year I have wintered hosta in my attached garage. Have not lost one yet (knock on wood).
I bring them in when they go dormant, remove the leaves (of course) and make sure they are not dry (but not soaked either).
A few times during the winter, I check to see if they are starting to look very dry. If so, I will put ice cubes in each pot (fom one to 3 depending in the size). (Credit this idea to the Hosta Form... can't remember who, Ken maybe?)
When some begin to get eyes and the weather starts cooperating (not consistently below freezing or persistent frost), I bring them out, even those without eyes yet.
I like decorative pots, so I do a pot within a pot when I can. It's easier for me to store then in the garage this way.

Um.......WOW!!!! That's all I can say with my jaw hitting the floor! Just.......WOWOHWOW!!!!! Stunning! You should do garden tours! But, then again, I'm afraid no-one would ever want to leave! :)

Absolutely beautiful! Almost to perfection!

The whole garden is gorgeous, Kisher. I like the way you have in one corner which has the bird house on a post, sort of implied that there is a woodland pathway to continue along. It could be the border of your property or not, but it is esthetically pleasing. It gives no feeling of boundary, and thus no sense of waking me up from this dream of a perfect garden.

I as a gardener applaud your perfection, and your understanding of the qualities of the plants you love. They are not forced to conform artificially with what YOU want, it seems that you are their steward and gentle caregiver. What they want and need, you provide in abundance.

Perfect. It is inspiring.

Your garden is lovely and the paths are beautiful. Your hosta all look so healthy and well grown.

Beautiful gardens, Kisher. And I need to thank you. I have that exact same bird feeder, purchased from a rummage sale & covered in ugly gray paint. That picture of yours is what it took to get me off my duff and stripping the paint off my feeder! Mine it all stripped now and coated w/ an oil wood preservative and looking lovely, too!

Next thing is to get in on a post but, with black oil sunflower seed currently 50# for $30, I've put the wild birdies on a diet!