Congratulations! My own order from Eurohosta arrived this week. Pictures will follow shortly.

Here are my new babies:

I'm not perfectly happy with them because Emerald Ruff Cut is missing, they forgot to pack it. ;-(

Bought Emerald Ruff Cut last year, it did not make the winter :-( Nice prices :-)

Have fun with them!

Sorry to hear about your ERC, it's soooo pretty...

Yes, Eurohosta prices are unbeatable ... but there's still 20% tax to add. It came to 65€ in total.

Both of you got some great plants - I look forward to seeing them grow and shine :)

Very nice orders both of you, from whom did yours come from, Karin?

Hi Denis, seems I'm not the only nightowl here :-)

My parcel came from Renaat (my facebook hosta friend). He's the one with the specials. I know not many of the ones he is recommending, but they are always beautiful. Will get another order from him near fall...

Finally I have my Jade Cascade :-) and some other very nice plants came along with it...it will be interesting to watch Setsurei and Doctor Fu Manchu grow, but what am I saying? It is interesting with all of them, old and new in the collection...I spend more time in the garden than ever. Only the weather could be nicer...one sunny day a week is not enough, for plants and me both...

Yesterday I had to repot a lot of plants because I discovered that the coconut earth I used last year was not good to make the potting mix fit for hostas. It clumped together with the growmix and the poor things started to die away. But I think I came just in time to save them.

This is a long journey of learning how to grow and then, if you think you know all, mother nature knows better...:-) Hope you have meanwhile better weather out there?

Karin

I have always been a nightowl, I love wandering about at nighttime in the summer as it hardly gets dark at all this far north and especially with a full moon. You are now a member of the Jade Cascade club lol, it is a fantastic hosta and one of my favorites.

It has been hot and very dry and windy from the east here, we have had no precipitation since the snow two weeks ago and none forecast until thursday and it won't be much. I have no piped water supply here in the mountains and must catch rain for the house and garden in tanks and barrels. I have used a lot watering the pots and am a third of the way through my supply, I have about 2000 liters left, not too bad but could do with a good shower, of rain that is lol. In "normal" weather I have more than enough as we generally don't go more than a week without rain ever.

Its a shame about your coconut earth but you live and learn, I hope they will be ok. I made some mistakes with bagged compost when I was starting and have refined the mix with the aid of good advise on here.

Well its starting to get light here so I'd better get some shuteye, ok I might go and check the pots first lol.

That's the not so amusing side of living far away from others...supplies are harder to get...I hope that it is going to rain soon in your mountains!

I'm happy to have a well in the garden, otherwise the water invoice would be too big to pay...

I love the time of night when it is slowly changing to morning, light is creeping in and everything is awakening. I'm often up already at 3 a.m., kind of bad sleeper :-) But as I have to work still I'm early to go to bed...at night:-)

Good night, Denis...

Wow Denis, you have no piped water supply? Sounds like absolute wilderness to me. I live in the middle of five million people and I would't want it any other way (but in addition to my piped water supply I keep several hundred liters of bottled water in the basement - you never know...)

I really like Ireland, but it is quite different from Germany. You notice that when you drive around in a car and discover you have to use the bathroom. Of course there is no bathroom, so you decide a tree would do. Of course there is no tree. When you finally discover a tree, there's a house standing next to it.

Aaargh...!

Lol yes Cicely, Ireland is very different to Germany, I have a vision of you doing a jig legs crossed wanting to pee while Paddy says to Mary, come here and look out the window at that woman dancing on the road, go see if she's alright, she's gone mad entirely! lol. We have good strong sphincters!

Ya I'm pretty rural, its not unusual here for houses in the hills to not have a water supply, lots of houses around here have large concrete storage tanks and it is pumped into the house, sometimes filtered sometimes not. My house does not have one of those tanks so I have lots of smaller plastic ones, I normally have around 5500 liters stored, it is looking like I'll have to increase this.

There are good and bad things about living out in the sticks but I could not live in a city not even a little one like Dublin, I did try, so your 5 million would be hell for me and Dublin is only 1 million. I'm just a bit of a hillbilly.

Yeah, no more city living for me either. I lived and worked in London for nearly fifty years. Then I moved here to my Welsh hillside with beautiful spring water, great views, peace and tranquillity and the lowest density of population of mid Wales.

I can go days without seeing or speaking to anyone and the only sounds are the birds, animals and the occasional farm machine.

After that long in the rat race this is paradise.

Dave