Thanks for sharing your garden....beautiful hosta and spectacular and well placed companion plants!

Welcome to the hosta forum. It looks like you know what you're doing! Stick around and keep sharing.

I agree! Great arrangements. Love your use of corydalis. I just put one in my hosta bed this year. Perfect!

SO beautiful! Thanks for sharing. Mine aren't looking that good. We're in a drought.

hl_60, here the corydalis and feverfew, along with everblooming Bleeding Hearts reseed all over. In some places I rather appreciate that "wild" look as it keeps the weeds down. I use pine straw mulch when it's available and I expect that's why they reseed so freely. Good luck getting yours established.

Gardenweed, sorry to hear about your drought. We previously had quite a few very dry years, so this is one of my best hosta years yet. By my list of older cultivars, it might be obvious I've been at this awhile (about 25 years).

Thank you for the tour, I really enjoyed it! My gardens are looking pretty sad. Stopped watering after we got at $200 dollar water bill last month.

WildernessWen5, sorry to hear you're going through a drought. We seem to be through with ours (for this time around) but for years my husband, "Rube Goldberg," set me up with three of these 250 gallon tanks. I carried lots of water but I was glad to have it! Happy you enjoyed my little tour--don't be discouraged, hosta are tough.

This will fill with about a 1/2" of rain on my barn roof.

Thanks for sharing! Just lovely!

Sherry

Pam, you have beautiful, beautiful hostas and gardens! I thoroughly enjoyed looking at your pictures - a real pleasure from the very first photo (gorgeous) to the last. Hadspen Blue and corydalis are a wonderful contrast and your HB is perfection - not a speck on it.

Your Guacamole reminds me of my On Stage.

Josephine, probably because it IS On Stage. LOL. When I first started growing hostas I labeled them. I have so many old Maples in my yard I just constantly lose tags when raking, so now I go by memory--and we can see how good THAT is.

I might have a few more pix to share later but things are starting to look kind of tired at this time of year and I've been focusing more on the veg garden.

Thanks so much for the enthusiasm.

Lush and lovely. Wow.

Pam, thank you! Your pictures are very inspiring. I'll have to try a bleeding heart too now!

I deadhead the everblooming variety and in the pine straw they reseed and bloom most of the summer. I just tuck in the stems with the seeds on them wherever I want them to grow. Sometimes plants seem to have a mind of their own and just grow best where they want to be.

I'm inspired!

Not only is your garden beautiful, but you Hostas are so healthy and attractive. What have you done to keep slugs away from Northern Exposure ... Mine is definely their favorite.

Susan B, Northern Exposure is in a new bed so I expect slugs just haven't found it yet. I have a row of Invincible and here they are the most plagued with slugs. I prefer not to use Sluggo if I can get by, I've tried other home recipes but next spring I'm going to test spraying with ammonia. Wish me success! Thanks for the positive feedback!

I have very few slugs this year. I drenched all pips this spring with a 10% ammonia solution. I also have a million or so toads in my garden. Don't know which one is the controlling agent bit I'm happy with the results.