I am new to posting, but long time follower of Hosta Forum

9 years ago

Hello Everyone, Just wanted to say hello to everyone, since I have been following you all for several years, I have learned so much. Thanks to all. I am hoping my life has gotten to where I can maybe participate now, and not so busy. I live in TN. right on the Ky-Tn Line and I have been attempting to grow hosta for years, but got more serious about 5 years ago. I lost a huge Oak Tree on the other side of my house and had to move some hosta, so made a new bed down in my Gulley, that is the picture I have posted of the new bed, I used it as a dayliy holding bed in 2012, moved the 2 big hosta in 2013, and added all the babies, except for about 12 which I put in there in 2012, that I got from Ed's hosta on ebay, which were more like plugs, most of them will have to be moved this year, and last year I bought a ton of Hosta from Naylor Creek when they had the sale last Aug-Sept on the hosta library auctions. I have spent a great deal of my time, clearing out the brush about 5 years, you can see the remainder I still did not have burned last spring in the background, so I would have shade for my Hosta, I will post more pictures someday of what it looked like and what it looks like now. We have freezing rain suppose to turn into snow and get like 8 inches today. TWo weeks ago I was out weeding my Iris beds. So our weather is a freeze and thaw all winter every year, but my hosta do pretty good I have not lost any so far, can't wait til spring, so excited. Plan to make many pictures of my babies this spring. Again Thanks to you all for all the information you post each and every day. I am sure there are others who read your forum and do not post. You probably have no ideal how many people you help.

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9 years ago

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9 years ago
the pic did not post I will try again
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DelawareDonna Zone 7A
9 years ago
Welcome aboard, JJ. I, too, lurked for months before I took the plunge. Yes, it is amazing how much information you accumulate from these wonderful people. Your bed is a lovely combination of hosta and companion plants. Keep us posted on its progress.
josephines167 z5 ON Canada
9 years ago
Welcome to the hosta forum, jjnave! Me too...I also "looked" before I "leaped" and now? Well, what can I say? My screen name changed....from josephines67 to josephines123!

Would love to see your before and after pictures! Your hosta bed looks lovely with the woods for background. I also like the companion plants as they make your hostas pop in that bed.
peren.all Zone 5a Ontario Canada
9 years ago
Welcome jjnave - So happy to see you here. You have created a beautiful garden. Look forward to seeing your before pics and more of your garden.
sandyslopes z5 n. UT
9 years ago
jjnave, glad you decided to start posting. I read GW for years before I decided to sign up and learn how to post pics. I'll look forward to yours because we all love pics here, and every time I see a pic of the TN/KY area, it looks so pretty there.

Your hostas in that bed look good. I take it that's a rock formation behind them? Not a giant white dog like my imagination saw at first, head on the left and tail wrapped around the fern?
don_in_colorado
9 years ago
Looks great. Welcome to the forum.

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Welcome aboard! There are a great bunch of people in this forum and they are more then willing to help out with information and advise.
hostatakeover swMO
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Welcome, jjnave. Glad you decided to join in. Love your garden! I also like that white rock in it, but I thought it looked more like a white elephant browsing behind giant ferns and Hostas.
newhostalady Z6 ON, Canada
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Hello jjnave. You have created a lovely new bed. Looking forward to seeing photos of your new "babies" next spring (and other garden photos)!
jjnave
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9 years ago
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Thanks everyone for the warm welcome. I love all of your gardens, they have inspired me, and made me believe I could do this, they are just wonderful. That was my first shade bed, down in my Gully, I have several more beds now, but the first one that had any plants of decent size. hopefully this year I will have better pics. The White Rock, is manmade, I made it using old blocks, pieces of concrete I needed to get rid of anyway, so I wanted a rock, my husband is sick & cannot help me, so I looked online, got some ideals, and I built it, it looks better in person than in pics for some reason, you really can not tell I made it, I made one more to help hold a bank, I will find that pic, this is all a work in progress, and has taken a lot longer than I ever imagined. Since I made the rock, I found huge rock over in another gully so I have just been moving them around with my husband's truck and a crow bar, but I have dug enough rock up off this hill to rock my dry stream that is used when we get lots of rain. The great thing I have found about working down in the gully is the shade is there all day. lol

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