NewHostaLady . Thank you for the kind words. While I wouldnâÂÂt call them impeccable I guess no gardener sees their own plants quite the same as someone else does. I can say they certainly are a lot of work. Between the incessant upkeep I need with cayenne to keep the tree rats from digging and the garlic spray after it rains to help deter slugs itâÂÂs all I can manage. But a labor of love and they keep me smiling even through the worst of it. :) Don . WOOT !!! You go boy. :p So glad I could enab . . . er suggest Gone with the Wind to you. :) I did in fact receive mine along with all the others. They weathered the trip well and are all in the pictures above, although looking back I did kind of bury Gone with the Wind. Chris was kind enough to mail me the one I picked by hand while I was up there. I found one with some streaking on two leaves so I figured itâÂÂd be fun to watch for any sports. I doubt it will amount to anything and will probably settle out next year, but still fun. :) It is dark now or I would go snap a picture for you. Maybe tomorrow . . . oooo that might be a nice thread to start to see if any others are growing it. Miss Babka . I guess I am blocking the exits arenâÂÂt I . . . oops ! I try not to think about them being 5 foot giants, but I will inevitably have to cross that bridge at some point, as you mentioned. I am still some time away from that dilemma and really do have quite a bit of space to plant them in the yard. So in the long run, I âÂÂshouldâ be fine for space . . . key word âÂÂshouldâÂÂ. But as we have come to gather, I am too fussy a gardener to do anything in a timely manner. So I will putter with my soil and slowly release them to the wild green frontier that is my overgrown front yard someday. :p Dearest Mocc . Not sure if you are aware, but you are scattered all throughout that porch. There are many a hosta I have acquired solely due to your well placed bait, and I am all the better for it. :) Although I hope never to rival your behemoth collection I can dream that I will have the time and space to house as many as you do someday. Thank you so much for everything. MadPlanter . Those were my thoughts exactly . . . when else . . . if ever . . . am I going to have an opportunity to take a picture like this again ? I had made plans to do it a while ago but was waiting for the last of my 2013 orders to arrive. Now that they are all here and have been potted up I took the weekend and went for it. :) It was a lot of fun. The neighbors actually stopped to see why I was on a ladder with a camera. They had thought I was taking pictures of an eagle. I laughed and said âÂÂNope, just my hostas.â They smiled and politely moved on. :p Thanks again everyone itâÂÂs been awesome !!! Ludi

I am also here from a link from another thread. I don't usually post on old threads, but had to say I am in absolute awe. You should have your own TV show, because you not only did great work, but you were very creative. Looks better than some very expensive kitchens!

Stacy, glad to hear that he is making such good progress. It will be a tough road ahead for a while, but I know you both will handle it well. Thanks for the update; keep them coming when you have time. Sue

Like I said before - I think when it comes to something like this, the best thing to do is to go with the vets advice. The first food the vet put my dog on, she didn't do well with. She got itchy, chewing her feet, loose stools. So the vet switched her. She did better on that one, but it elevated her urine PH too much, so we switched her once more - and everything is where it should be, no itching, firm stools, etc. Had I gone off on my own and picked out a food my vet knew nothing about, we'd have no idea if it was the food causing problems, or if there was still something wrong, what food I could switch her to, etc. It makes me more comfortable that even though the food isn't the highest in quality, especially compared to what she was on - I'm on the same page as the vet. Depending on the type of crystals or stones found - certain things need to be done to alter the urine to prevent them from re-occuring. The diet for each type is different - so it's safest to not do too much on your own, without running it by the vet first. I asked about food when she was first put on this food, on this forum - and was pretty much told to stick with it, it will be OK. You can ask your vet which other foods he could be on, should this one cause trouble - and then do some research on your own, or ask us a few questions, and make a decision from there. The quality of the food my dog is on now - is 100x better than the first food they put her on, and it shows, so it was definitely worth bringing up to the vet.