love hostas..the plant that keeps giving...i think i have all the hostas on the property from the original ones 25 years ago...not so good with my iris...they havn't flourished, but have less sun for them...and my day lillies need to be thinned...another freebie!

Linda, it is a shame you are not closer. Last year we dug a bunch up, split them and gave them out. I even put a box on the street with free to go home. And this year another bunch is out. They all need splitting.

I love hostas. The thick leaved, solid green ones especially. They repel the slugs the best. I don't care for the frilly variegated ones. When we had our house (previous marriage) I always cut the flowers off. I like them for the greenery, not the flowers. :)

Oh I want to plant some too, I love them. I need to ask my garden club ladies if any of them have some to share. We do a lot of sharing and cuttings.
You were at the right place at the right time.

I've given plenty of Hosta, daffodils, and yucca away for free on Craigslist. They are always gone in no time.

nice!

I love free plants. I've gotten a lot of free plants just by stopping by someone's house to ask what something was, and they either had starts of it or suckers or gave me cuttings or seeds. Never hurts to ask! I'm going next week to help someone thin out some overgrown beds so I can have the stuff I thin out. I love doing that! If you ever see a huge clump of anything that needs thinning, ask the owner if you can help them thin it for free in exchange for some of the bulbs/divisions.

Last year I was walking the dogs in my daughter's town when I came upon all these hostas out to the curb for the garbage man. I ran back to her house and we piled in her Mini Cooper and made two trips with the hostas. She got six and so did I and they all came up this year.

And hostas are so forgiving....as Ken, of the hosta forum says, throw them in the driveway and they will do well! I was afraid I would lose some this year, as we had so little snow cover, but think it was only one, a new one last year, of course. It was Orange Marmalade, and such a beauty.

I have hostas that need a new home. 6 huge ones. Their shade tree, a 100 year old American Elm died and these poor hostas are suffering in the now full sun. I have nowhere shady for them. Any takers...you have to dig them out.

Hooray for free hosta!

I have about eight different varieties and would LOVE to get more.

gazania - where are you? I would love to have more!

I am about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh PA, in the Butler area.

Gazania, I had the same problem. Hosta in the back of my house were in the shade until a tree was taken down. Now they the sun bleaches them out but they still look okay, just more yellow than green! I love when they flower.

I have hosta in all the beds around my house. I just love them. Many came from the side of my grandmother's house. I bought a few big greenish-blue ones and those don't seem to be spreading like the others. They stay more or less in a clump. They are so pretty, if the deer don't get them.

Hosta is like candy for deer. They don't often come up as far as my house, but when they do, they can really level off the garden rather quickly. The people in the houses at the end of my street back up to the woods. I think they have given up gardening, except daffodils!

If I have to divide the hsta or iris, or dig back the pachysandra, I always put them out at the end of the driveway with a "please adopt me" sign.

Sadly, that is a tad far for me...