Good show, Esther! Now, if little Pure Heart doesn't make it (mine was destroyed by squirrels this winter), check out Snow Mouse as a possible alternate. I'm surprised and delighted at it vigorous growth despite the upheaval of the shared bowl it lives in. Ahhh, your Paradise Island will be a joy to behold. Mine lasts a long time, looking good to the very end. Maui Buttercups is fine, but when it got really hot sort of faded out. But still worth growing even in my extreme climate. Do you have a smarty phone? I have my pictures on Flickr, and there is an app which lets me upload to Flickr quite easily. I always add "tags" with the hosta name for easier retrieval. Flickr is a Yahoo affiliate now.

lack of light intensity ... and i wonder about lack of spring time levels of humidity in the house ... especially if you have a forced air furnace in z5 ... it will have to be hardened off to outside.. both to temps and light ... in my house.. i cant hear/read this enough: he is RIGHT ... lol ... i tried this house thing.. in the way back machine ... for all the immediate thrill ... it didnt end well .. as piet notes... it probably wont look good the rest of the year .. but it wont die.. for this anyway ... or.. you will figure out how to do it better than i did ... i was pre WWW .. so i was winging it ... actaully.. now that i think of it.. i would buy forced hosta at hosta college ... in march.. they couldnt go outside til near june.. and seemed to go to sleep early in fall ... i dont know if i was a novice.. the furnace.. the forcing.. i dont know.. but i just quit buying forced hosta early ... or in the alternative.. lowered my expectations .. of what it would do the rest of the year ... ken

mom's great..pathology report was excellent..she's coming home today..after 4 nights/5 days away (a couple of pop ins) I'm home this morning and everything's bigger..some Junes that were not the first ones up but are now the biggest..my trees aren't bare yay!..from the window..a chickadee and my Fire Islands are still glowing..Praying Hands is skinny and leaning..my "forktress" (stole this nickname) is helpful but not perfect protection from squirrels..I'll give it some thought as to whether these would be better off in the ground..but that beautiful pic of Praying Hands in a pot holds me back..

I count them. It’s a way to know if they are thriving or in decline. I have a spreadsheet - I use Google Sheets because I find it easier than Excel - and I can easily access it and enter the data on my phone as I go around the garden. Some, however, have too many to count - especially smaller ones like Lemon Lime, Golden Tiara, Gold Drop. But I can look at them and just know they’re ok. I‘d say most of mine have increased this year, some dramatically. But a few have declined, so I’ll need to take remedial actions.