I have a lot of Sweet Home Chicago already potted up and ready for trades. I also have 270 other hostas on my trade list. Contact me if you want to trade. Luv

Hey there, Deanna! :o) I had a 'Clifford's Stingray' last year (in a raised bed) but it did not make it back this year! It was neat but way too small (height wise) for where I'd have it in mind. I leave all my hosta outside where they sit in their barrels, pots, whatever--except the smaller ones I have in smaller pots on our deck. Those I set aside sometimes on the north-side of the house or as in last winter, just behind some of the barrels, out of the sun! I only lost a whole lot about 4 summers ago during that crazy March where it was definitely Spring/Summer temps and then it went back to normal after 3 weeks, and then, only a couple in barrels and the rest all in the pots you get them in from the nursery! I lost five hosta, winter before last to voles. So, now all pots have a layer of gravel in the bottoms, and I've even dug out some of my older barrels and lined them with gravel--the sharp granite type--not pea gravel. This year with all new plantings, I'm adding that same gravel mixed into the shredded pine bark for extra. I'm using the approx. 1+" size! I've got LOTS in big pots (some semi-planted/some not) and barrels! Oh, almost forgot--the hosta you asked about is 'Old Glory'! I really like that one! Right now the grassy green margins are not showing up so much but they will! I think the leaves might be larger if it were planted inground, but I like it the way it is!

Thank you for the comments, ladies. Yeah, I had to study at the (cyber)feet of the master, Ken, to get harsh enough to snap out the reverting eyes in my undulatas. This is the first year I've really done that, instead of rescuing them, and DH was amazed. It's weird. I have a small fortune in hostas hidden behind the house (okay, a very small fortune), but even the few neighbors privileged to see my pet beauties still prefer the thick border of undulata out front. It's a mystery... I am grateful to those undulatas, because they are what got me hooked. A small thick patch of eyes about 2' across, maybe from a single plant left ten years earlier by a lady who died, divided up 2000 soon became a fine fluffy border 65' long along the north & east faces of the house. (We bought from her widower, a man not into gardening.) I'll get a photo and post it in a new thread when it's light out.

I am brand new here but I would be interested in any hostas, day lily, iris, bearded iris or lilies please :) I will have mimosa tree seeds, white rose of Sharon seeds and redbud tree seeds to trade when they are ready this year. Please let me know what is needed, thank you and can't wait to trade!