Is this a good time to transplant small Hostas plants in the ground?
Elaine Bailey
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Comments (2)Do it now. Should be an easy job since it was only 1 year in a ground. It's still dormant which is good, though kalmias could be transplanted with no ill effect practically any time of the year....See MoreHelp with transplanting and potting up ground grown plants
Comments (2)Hi Jennifer, Are you absolutely, positively certain they knew you were just an Ordinary Person who was bringing a few of your Ordinary Plants with you---rather than a nursery or some sort of a commercial operation who was planning to "import" plants into the state? I've done several searches and I can't find anything at all regulating INDIVIDUALS who are bringing plants into the state for their own personal use! All that stuff you posted above sounds VERY much to me like something we would have been dealing with when I was still in the Green Industry! Maybe I'm wrong, but I kinda suspect if you call the Colorado Dept. Of Agriculture and tell them you want them to "inspect" the plants you dug up in your yard they might--well--have you locked up! ;-) Go to the site I'm linking and look at the Oregon Word document. That's ALL about commercial operations. I did find info about not bringing pot (not potS, POT!) into the state---guess you're gonna have to start all over again with seed! :-) And there's information about Noxious Weeds--which are included on that document. And while WAY back when, there used to actually be "guards" stationed where you went "into" California to check for Illegal Contraband, even CA doesn't do that anymore, so to whom are you supposed to show your Colorado DOA inspection certificate? I'm not sure how you'd go about checking further! Maybe you should call the Colorado DOA and try to explain to them what you were told to see what they say---and be sure you tell them you're just an Ordinary Person who's planning to dig a "few" plants up in your yard--and will be potting them in a soilless mix, and taking them with you when you move to Oregon. Be sure they know you have NO intentions to either propagate or sell them. And, whatever you decide to do to check further, PLEASE come back and let us/ME know what you find out. With all the people moving here, there, and everywhere these days, I just can't imagine that either the Oregon DOA OR the Colorado DOA is running around people's yards inspecting a few plants here and there. Now, having said all that! The plants you got from me at the swaps were all grown in Sunshine #1. I'm guessing you're gonna use a fair amount of soil to pot the things you're digging up, so I recommend getting a bale of it (30-some dollars) at Paulino's and use that. Bales are by far the cheapest way to buy soilless mixes since it's compressed and you're getting a lot more than it "looks like." Sunshine mix is also what ALL of Paulino's plants are started and grown in (they sometimes use a different # mix for propagation). I'll repeat this one more time! DON'T buy Hyponex---if you want them to still be alive when you get there! And I don't recommend Miraclegro--WAY overpriced, and extremely inconsistent quality. For the perennials, as soon as your soil is workable, I'd dig up small divisions (they'll get big again!), knock/wash the soil off of the roots and pot them in the mix, keeping them in the appropriate light conditions till you leave (say it ain't so!!!). You can probably plant many of them in pots that are smaller than a gallon to save space. I can't imagine you're going to be successful getting a rose that's been growing in the ground into a one gallon pot! Even the roses that are planted up at Paulino's, which all come in bare root and which have the roots pruned significantly before being potted, are put into two gallon pots. If you're wrong about the regulations, you could put them into bigger pots. And you CAN prune the roots when you do them, but I'd definitely recommend doing it while they're still dormant--a/k/a, as soon as possible, and I'd cut the canes down pretty short too. The other thing you could try--and I've never done this--is to take cuttings and root them. I can't tell you how, but there have been a couple threads around here over the years telling how to do it. Now! About the 'Cherry bells'!!! You know I warned you about growing that--even in Nederland! If you really want to take a chunk of it with you, I'd recommend potting it up just like everything else--and then putting it in a BIG POT in it's new home! I very very, veryveryvery strongly recommend you don't plant it in the ground out there. If you plant that stuff in the ground in Oregon it will probably wind up being added to their Noxious Weed List---and it could very well get YOU banned from the state! ;-) You mentioned on another thread that we should get together before you leave! Darn right, girl! Your place or my place, doesn't matter to me, but I definitely want to get together with you sometime over the summer before you leave! Skybird Here is a link that might be useful: State summaries of plant protection laws and regulations...See MoreGround covers, companion plants and hosta
Comments (22)Squire, I also have a Bertram Anderson - in its 6th year and doing very well amongst the hostas. BA has thicker, narrower, long leaves. It was developed to withstand more sun...which it does here from sunrise to around 1:30. I've pulled out some of my common pulmonarias (but I'll never want to be without one) but this one is definitely a keeper! Just the fact that it is impervious to wilting won me over! :-) Did you get a chance to enjoy it for a few years before it withered and died? When I grew L. Herman's Pride (yellow flower spires) it was the best behaved lamium also... more compact and didn't behave like a rambling groundcover. Rambling or not, lamium is wonderful...sort of like sweet woodruff - shallow roots that are easily pulled. I sprinkle slug pellets right into the groundcover where slugs may be hiding. :)...See MoreIs the Fall a good time to move hostas?
Comments (9)z5 is less than one quarter the US and shares a very unique characteristic - a cold low temperature of between 10 and 20 below zero. Not that zones matters all that much as to when you can move hostas. Many people move hostas when ever they want/need to move hostas for many many valid excellent reasons. I divided an Albo Marginata this week because it was crowding out my Aztec Treasure AND I needed to fill a blank spot. Now that all my hostas have finally reached season maturity I only NOW recognize which hostas are getting too big for their locations. One of my Patriots has been nearly swallowed by a Lancifolia - something needs to move, I have yet to decide what. Fall is a good time to divide as the aesthetics of hostas are on the wane and division usually does some minor damage to existing hosta leaves. If you are moving the entire hosta move it now, water it it in well and keep it well watered and you get to enjoy it all summer right where you want it!...See Moreken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
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