WOW!!!

What a beautiful wad of hostas! Keep up the purchases and your chorus line's going to be so long you'll need to remember your passport when you go outside to inspect it!

Such very happy hostas! Have you considered putting trays under some of the pots? Not individual pots, but a large tray for a number of pots? On the rare occasion when I've had to pot up hostas, the pots get put either on a tray or in a smaller container such as a dish pan if they are minis. Much less time consuming to add water to a tray or pan rather than individually hand water large numbers of hostas. Also has the advantage of the hostas being able to soak up as much as they need, instead of the water carrier having to guess.

In the 6th photo, what is the hosta in the 3:00 position, yellow with green, very ruffled edges?

Yes I have thought about trays but the number required is frightening never mind the cost. I hope to get an automatic watering system laid out to the pots. Again a daunting task, I have the equipment it just needs to be done in the winter when I can get to the pots. Maybe next year.

The plant at 3 o'clock is Amalia.

Dave

I thought it was probably Amalia, but since there are hostas in your part of the world that we never get, best to ask.

I don't know what the situation would be in your area, but around here, it is fairly easy to find used commercial baking or catering trays, quite large, for a dollar or two each. They are only an inch high, but that's really all you would need. It would still be a considerable investment, given the size of your collection. Would your automatic watering system have to be disconnected every winter?

Looking good Dave, some of them are getting really big.

Wow. And....wow!! Did I mention, WOW?!!!!!!

I'm speechless....so gorgeous! How many pots do you have?

Beautiful Dave! Picture #6 looks like the sea of hostas never end! And hosta lovers like me love that! You definitely have a green thumb!

Takes more than one look to see everything!..not sure that I did..

Wow! Jam packed and lovely!

Sherry

Awesome! So many great looking hostas in one place, it makes me happy just looking at it. .....All that work covering and uncovering was well worth it.

Another wow! Knocked my socks off!!

Here is another WOW ! !. Your Hostas are beautiful . It looks like most of your Hostas are in pots how often do you add new soil? How do you determine when to up root to another pot? I have tried to do more pot this past year and lost several to the roots rotten. How do you continue to keep the WOW Factor.

Who is the pretty yellow in picture 5

What an impressive collection. I could stand in front and admire all those beauties for hours trying to take it all in!

A watering system is a good investment to give you time for other things like watering hostas in summer...

Dave, I'm speechless, I knew it would look good when I saw the empty pots, but this tops all the expectations! You could use some of Jeroen's big Valleys for the background :-):-):-)

Thanks for all the great comments. I'm not sure I do anything special. The plants are the stars and have come through really well this year.

I use a 5111 potting media, put them into a bigger pot when they outgrow their current one and live in a high rainfall area with relatively mild winters.

The yellow? plant, isn't, just the light creating the effect is Fluted Fountain.

Karin you have a wicked streak, you know I'm trying to resist Jeroen's big plants.

Dave

Yikes! Fantastic!

-Babka

Dave, shared pain is half the pain, this is what we say in Germany...You can be sure that you are not the only one who has to resist this temptation...But you have much more garden left than me:-)

Incredible. And here I was puffing up over my 2 lonely LIBERTY specimens!

LOL! Rouge!

Leave it to Karin, Dave, lol (love the banter) ... you know resistance is futile - forestalled yes, but undeniably futile.

"Shared pain is half the pain" - nailed it, Karin! This hosta group sure knows how to commiserate, doesn't it? ;-)

Dave, the chorus line has left the building and is en route! Holy moly but that is an awe-inspiring sight! I keep looking at the pictures and my brain freezes...but my eyes just can't drink in enough. Anyone starting to get into hostas and looking at these photos would be thunderstruck. To maintain around 500 hostas (potted) is one thing - but to have them all looking like divas is quite the testament to your love and dedication of hosta.

1st picture:. Who is the top-left-of-center one with wide yellow center?

2nd:. Blue cupped one?

3rd is a gorgeous ripple brigade!

5th&6th Love the forefront two together (?) Amalia is a standout.

Incredible, Dave. Thank you for sharing. I enjoyed my coffee that much more very early this morning with this post. I hope you have a wonderful day today.