OMG, that is an engineer!!!! I"d have a complex if I tried to live up to that standard of detail. I'm doing good counting POTS. Last year, my pot count did not match my hosta index, and I went searching until I found the small pot not on the list. Little orphan is how it felt. That's when I began rotating pots so I would feature each one with at least an hour of recognition and take its "school picture" on a regular basis. This year I'll be even more careful to document each pot of hosta, because I have as many as 8 plantaginea, 2 of beaucoup different ones, and am learning the wisdom of planting both like hosta in the SAME pot, given enough room. Unless, like with Sugar Daddy, I am performing an experiment. Where one is given a lot of sun and the other as much shade as I have available. Hopefully, one environment will show the preferred conditions of this hosta, which some say does not wear well......but I really like its NAME! Every girl needs a nice Sugar Daddy at some point in her life. :) My 2013 pictures on the camera now are all that I have of my hosta.....except for what Flickr albums show. What a bummer.

Wow, BIG increasing. Pictures, please :) Here sping has been cold. I have only two hostas in ground, which have pips (noid and for my suprise Great Expectation. Others are still sleeping. But that is good, we got more snow this weeks monday. We had already all snow melted, but in one night in snowed 10cm. Now all snow has gone and sun is shining. Forecast looks that we will finally have warmer weather. So of course I had to buy few hostas ;) NIce pip counting for everyone.

What a great story with photo proof! I think I probably kill more hostas by trying to baby them too much. They really are tough and want to survive under adverse conditions. When I have a pot full of rot, there are almost always a few small buds with tiny white roots trying desperately to grow. (except for the $$$ ones, of course. -Babka

I went to Soules once..have talked to the woman that owns it a couple of times..friendly and knowledgeable..I bought lots of hostas years ago when I moved here (2005) from everywhere..from 2 neighbors, Lowes, Home Depot, Menards, greenhouse at the IMA, Eagle Creek Nursery, Country Harmony (Brownsburg), garage sales, my sister and a neighbor gave me some..lucky so far..just one last summer with HVX..think it came from Home Depot..have over 500 hostas but just 50 to 60? varieties..had a lot of ground to cover and bought lots of fall clearance plants..be glad that you don't have many ash trees..they have problems as you probably know..