GESILA : Your pic's are interesting. The Wu in full sun is in a similar setting to my east foundation at the north end. Not only does it get direct sun but it also gets reflected sun off of the siding. Your Z5 climate, where Wu is, is more like a Z6b micro-climate. I imagine you water there a lot. Do you spot water it, or does it get the same amount of water that your other hostas you've mentioned have scorched? JON: your speculation is interesting, considering both of Gesila's examples are on the same hosta variety. Gesila, did you buy both Wu's from the same stock? Jon, you frequently post about chlorophyll and increased growth. Why do you think taller scapes aren't a similar reaction to more energy from the sun? At this point, from what I have read here I am inclined to be more wiling to move Stained Glass to the sunnier spot and replace it's present position in dappled shade with the Blaze of Glory. But as of yet I have made no decisions, so keep the cards and letters coming please. MOC:Since Theresa reads EVERYTHING in GWHF, and SHE is the pot-head I am sure she will be pressuring me to let her pot-up my hostas so that they can be moved and tested in the new beds. She already had done that with my Wu last summer when I bought it. I actually have three with a lot of space. (Eat your hearts out, brothers and sisters who have saturated hosta beds). The black walnut has grown and this year I have to move my tomato and pepper garden because of the juglone from the walnut. I have a 15x30 plot of well nourished garden now being encroached upon that can be the home of hostas. Theresa is already threatening to visit our numerous antique and resale shops in town looking for things to pot hostas in. It seems that more than just sun may be in play here. One of my daughters has a strip between her garage and entry sidewalk (north side of garage) where she has had only minor success growing hosta in. I have often wondered if part of the problem is lime that leaches out of the concrete sidewalk and foundation changing the pH of the soil, and the effect of sun on the leached lime or the leaching of lime from concrete. I know the rocks I use as markers that I failed to recognize as limestone barely last one season, while the igneous rocks remain unchanged. That may also infuluence the scape length in Gesila's Wu planted along a concrete footing. I am thinking too much right now and have to C&C (close and contemplate. LOLAMS) Les

I am looking forward to the new space being filled with the Hosta-it is virgin soil in there-only trees growing and the dreaded ivy. Half of my entire backyard was covered with this Ivy-So I carved out niches for my gardens. This particular one is going to look great I think, with the addition of Hosta and the occasional Ferns.

Really depends on your personal tastes! Do you want hostas in grouping of similar plants? I haven all my green/white hostas together in one garden, and I keep my june next to all of its sports, as I like how they look together, and near kiwi full monty, because I like the subtle differences in color between these plants, and I like how the base color of one plant picks up the accent color in the adjacent plant. Or, you can group them so that they contrast dramatically and each plant is very clearly different from the next. The only suggestion I can give you is to put the big ones where they're going to stay for good -- the mediums can be moved around fairly easily in the future. But moving a big one, you're more than likely going to set it back a year. And consider sun. S&S and Stained Glass and Sun Power will do well in sun, but Queen of the Seas might lose her blue early in too much sun. The first year of planting a new bed, I see as a test run. More than likely, I'm going to move everything around before the year is up. :)

Hi Dray, Thanks for asking. Lots going on... started a couple weeks ago when the heat really broke. Let's see. First, the straight line winds have made it hard to tell how big some of the hostas are. And the pics I have from pre-storm don't show a whole lot... So, it's been hard to make decisions about what to move and what not to move. Over the winter, we had taken down a Black Hills Spruce... probably 7-8' at the base. We had to take out the stump and did that last weekend. I elected to move Empress Wu into that spot. Where else in MY garden was I going to have room for a 7' hosta!?!? I mean, right before the storm, she was already 4 1/2 feet. Had I not moved her, I would have had to move 8 other hostas! Ok, with the tree. I'm left with an ugly stump. But it sounds like the neighbors behind me want to remove their part of the tree by next year. So hopefully I'll be able to have that stump ground soon... I HOPE! After all, it's literally straight out from my deck, so it's the first thing I see! I hesitate to move anything in front of it since it'd have to survive the grinding later. This experience has given me the much needed motivation to thin out the overcrowding of this section... and I'm almost done. I gave away several duplicates and lots of seedlings to my neighbor, who was grateful to take them all! And with this thinning out, I've been able to make room for a path that runs thru the length of this section of the garden. I have only 2 more hostas to move to finish that path clearing. I hope to have the step stones done next year. My theory that the hostas would fry this year hasn't really come to fruition. None of them seem too bad. They look like heck from the wind and hail, but so far, I can't tell that they are getting scorched. So, all in all, this situation has left me with a garden that will be better for it. Sorry, no pics right now. It's not photo ready.