Anita, try getting some hair from a salon and putting it around the emerging hosta eyes. This has really kept the bunnies away for me.

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I have substantial pachysandra along our driveway in deep and speckeld shade. It is not invasive in the sense that it is suddenly everywhere in a year, but I can guarantee that it will be on your neighbor's side soon. It is a spreader, and spread it will. Right now I'm trying to control mine to stay in the area of its inhabitance from the purchase of our house, and I'm hoping some hostas I planted last fall will eventaully not need help to fight off the pachysandra. As it is, early last summer I plopped lanscape tarp (and some currugated cardboard, as well) with over 6" of mulch over the areas bordering the pachysandra to kill weeds and get ready for the fall hostas. The pachysandra is sending out inquisitive roots underneath the landscape tarp now, and in some areas is poking through. When I plant new hosts or lungwort (why is lungwort impossible to find now?) I spend some good time digging up all the pachysandra runners I find in the soil. Hostas are your best bet. Plant them, let them be, enjoy life. If somebody tells you how to easily control the spreading of pachysandra, let me know. I thought about trying that plastic roll of edging material, whatever it's called, but it would be very expensive to do in my area without a guarantee that it would work. Lots of linear feet needing boundaries! On the upside, the pachysandra looks great. Just be sure you plant it in the middle of your own property and not next to your neighbors!

Saija..you're right..free hostas are nice..thanks!..how are your coleus doing? 56steps..I agree..the location is great!..I have curtains just on the lower half of my kitchen window..when they're open I have a great view of those tall hostas..even now with missing stems they're impressive..thanks for the compliment!.. peren..thanks!..I love them already..I was admiring them this morning while I was making coffee lol..DH is my perfect helper..he thinks I'm too slow (I am) but he tolerates it..I'm a thinker he's a worker..and in the end we do a good job..