Hi Sophannah, welcome to this forum of hosta addicts! We all love hosta riddles, so we will be looking forward to your summer pictures :-) I will get Victory soon from a friend, I'm really looking forward to it.

Anyway, after all of that my question is very basic...if I were to post
photos in the summer of all my hosta plants, would you guys help me
identify them?

==>>> welcome...

the above is most of what we do all summer long ... so feel free ...

plz go to your members page.. and find the box for location .. else provide it in every post ...

when you take pix.. try to skip middle of the day in blinding sun.. if you get that in scotland.. lol ... it affects colors ... also throw in a scale ... anything we might all know ..

and i presume you know.. your own seedlings can not be IDd ... as there are only 1 or 2.. that come true from seed ...

ken

Aww thanks for the tips ken, I'm not sure though where the location bit is. I'll have another nosey.

thank you all for my welcome, after reading all the discussions on here and realising you guys are all hopelessly addicted as I am, I couldn't possibly pass by without creating an I.D and account.

I'll do my best re my photos, I'm so excited to find out what my beauties are called :o)

I am in the middle of adding drainage to my flower beds, which I jut may have to extend....for more lovely jubley hostas!!

p.s ken - there ain't very much sun here in Scotland, just lots and lots of rain ☔️

I have changed my location, will you guys still see my posts now I'm showing as being uk?

Yes Sophannah, we have people from all over the world here.

To add your location and zone go to Your Houzz in the upper right corner. Click on Edit profile then on the left side of the page there is a short list, click on Advanced then scroll down until you see the box that says Climate zone. Add your info then scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the green box to update your info.

Ahhh I thought I had done it, but obviously not...lol. I'll go check it out now. Thank you

Update: I got it peren.all - thanking you again for your help

Welcome Sophannah.

Lovely umbrella, LOL. I just had to little copy and put snowman in my name. Haven't realized that one could have little picture there.

Whilst I was typing it came up, I didn't think it would have worked (the brolly)...but it has.

Thank you for welcoming me, I'm glad I found this forum it has a wealth of information. Just been reading about how to care for seedlings...I'm in my element....haha

Saija-Finland, your little snowman ⛄️ looks very handsome :0)

Hi Sophannah, welcome to the forum, I laughed at your reply about your weather to Ken, I understand only too well. We will have fun trying to id your hostas when they are fully unfurled but for now you could try and find them in the alphabet threads and if that doesn't work you will have a list as long as your arm of new ones you want. Here is A to get you started.

http://forums.gardenweb.com/discussions/4350183/hosta-a-2016?n=51

Denis

As you can tell by now we like figuring out IDs for hostas. More hosta pictures... Yay! Lucky you to have a greenhouse.

Victory will be a great addition to your flower bed. Mine started looking impressive (to me, at least) the third year. Very large leaves, very tall scapes. It wasn't slower or faster growing than any other hostas, but it looks good long before it's reached maturity.

Mines are little eyes at the moment just poking out. They are by far my favourite plant. I have loads of them, so much so when I split them last year I had to give some of them away, sounds bad but I grudge giving them away as I love ❤️ my Hosta, lol. And now my hosta seeds have sprouted, I just can't help myself!!!!!

Love love love my greenhouse and so does my daughter, aged 8. She currently has two shelves of plants going at the moment. She is in there as much as me, she loves the whole putting soil in pots, plantings seeds and watering little seedlings....but hates the in between waiting for something to happen, waiting for a sprout to form out her little pots of muck!! Lol

This year so far with winter sewing, I have sprouted hosta seeds, Christmas rose (hellebores), allium seeds I took from my flowers, loads of different types of sempervivium (think that's how it's spelt), heuchera and trays and trays more. I labelled them but most of the names has washed off ...oops!!

Hi Sohannah and welcome to the UK and Eire branch of the Hosta Forum.

Hope you have plenty of space up there as it sounds like you have quite a propagation project going on there.

Victory is a great plant and looks good from an early age.

If there are eyes showing now be prepared to cover it every time there is a frost warning.

I moved from the southeast of England to here in Wales six years ago and quickly discovered what damage frost can do. Down south we rarely got frost after the middle of March. I was convinced my plants had some sort of disease the first time I discovered brown spots all over the leaves. Now I have this crazy situation where for 3 months I am constantly wrapping them in fleece at night then uncovering in the morning.

Like everyone else I look forward to pictures and trying to help you identify them.

Can you tell me where you bought the plants with lost labels. If it was from a nursery they have lists which can help me dismiss ones they don't carry. If it was from garden centres then they all carry the same short list of varieties which again will help narrow it down.

Again welcome to the addiction.

Dave

Hi tiddisolo, what a fab name :0) and thank you for my warm welcome.

Yes I'd say most of them are from the garden centre, probably dobbies. That's the closest one to me.

Im really looking forward to seeing how victory does. I don't have a giant hosta yet, well not that I'm aware off anyway. I do love the variegated variety, so tend to opt for them.

I do also love my heucheras, I think they look fab along with a hosta. Heucheras though don't tend to last long in my garden, and I find I need to replace them every few years...but I think that's down to my soil type.

I was in the garden this morning and noticed one of my mini hostas has started to uncurl already :0)

On the subject of Heucheras I have quite a few, most of which struggle when planted out. I thought maybe it's just too wet here.

Most of mine now live in pots and planters where they thrive and get very large.

On the minus side they are a magnet for vine weevil. Fortunately they root very easily from cuttings.

Dave