What hostas are still looking good in your garden?
With summer winding down and plants trying to shut fown for the season, I was happy to see some hosta still looking really good. Here are a few of mine with no signs of browning. Let’s see what still looks good in your gardens…..no cheating ; )……..I want to see photos from today!
Sea Dream is still looking fine today.
Blue Ivory is not showing signs it is done for the season. Look close, it has a visitor!
Little Treasure, can‘t say enough good stuff about this small hosta.
Brother Stefan still looking marvelous, so glad I added this one a season or two ago.
Sherry
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2 years agolast modified: 2 years agoCan’t seem to post…….third try
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Comments (66)Lots of great new updates and pics, everyone, keep them coming. Love all of your tropicals, cast, plus the adeniums, plumerias, and blood orange pics too. Keep them coming. I love Epiphyllums too, although the only one I've had long term success with (ten years now) is Epiphyllum 'Curly', a contorted form of E. guatemalense. I bought it as a small cutting and it's become a very large plant the flowers regularly all spring and summer. Unfortunately the flowers are small, sort of a dingy off white, and disorganized, LOL, and they only open for a very few short hours well after midnight. Neat, curly leaves though, and pretty pink fruit. Here's a pic of mine from a week or so ago. Definitely grow it for the foliage, hah! I posted this on a separate thread too, but here's a quick pic of my Bauhinia galpinii blooming away. Finally, seedling #9 from my hand-pollination of stapelias (an annoyingly complex hidden lock-and-key mechanism, no dust-some-yellow-pollen-onto-a-stigma kind of thing) opened its first bloom this weekend. You can see traits of each parent: the size and stripes of Stapelia gigantea and the brick red color and some extra fur from S. hirsuta. Nothing fancy, but fun and easy, so why not share it, right? Happy gardening all! Grant...See MoreWhat is looking good in your December 2010 garden?
Comments (10)Hi Grant! Awesome pics, you are my gardening hero! As for my successes, my 2 strawberry plants seem very happy, even though they're not yet producing fruit(but they are producing those little white flowers, so I guess that's a start). I've also got several carrots and one lone spinach that I've grown from seed that don't seem to be bothered by the cold at all(but I believe that's normal for them?). My poor Chinese Pistache survived a brutal summer in which I now believe I under-watered her a bit (crisp fringes of leaves), but now she's turned that gorgeous coral color that reminds me of why I brought her home in the first place! I just hope I can help her recover fully in the spring...maybe with some nice deep waterings to get rid of salt-soil-burn. I've got a bunch of annuals that are of course very happy(pansies, petunias, calendulas, primroses, coral bells), and some huge osteospermums that actually survived the entire summer, are now over a year old(happy birthday!) and are blooming again. The strangest thing happening right now is that I've got some dwarf Ilex Vomitoria(a type of holly?) that are actually growing new leaves, after not growing for almost a whole year! Odd little plant!...See MoreWhat DOES look good in your garden these hot and dry days?
Comments (29)I admit to having cheated a little (ok, a lot) by planting food crops in and amongst most of my ornamentals so that I could water them all at the same time. Almost every pot with a flowering bush or bulb in it also contains a tomato, pepper, herb or onion plant, and earlier in the season I had lettuce growing in every bare spot I could find. I highly recommend this technique not just so that you can cheat on watering, but because it's great to grow your own food and many food plants look beautiful. There are a few things, however, in my yard and in our community garden that have never received a drop of supplemental water this year and still look fine. Off the top of my head, I can name these things: lady banks roses (I'm convinced you couldn't kill these, once mature, with any kind of neglect or abuse) climbing hydrangea (mine isn't old enough to bloom yet but it is growing fine and not drying out at all as far as I can tell, seems to still be spreading) gardenia (planted in an extremely dry spot under a large tree where I doubt it even gets much rainfall when we have rain, but has at least a foot deep mulch, mostly leaf mold, all around it) passionflowers (I have two kinds, the one with the startlingly beautiful purple flowers, and the one that makes the egg-shaped purple fruit but has only tiny insignificant white flowers that you have to search for if you want to see. Both are doing very, very well.) lilies of many varieties, although I tend to plant the tall ones (4-6 feet tall) creeping fig (another plant you can't kill once it gets past a certain age) naked ladies or lycoris squamigera, blooming their lovely pink heads off right now (transplants from Ohio that took 2 or 3 years after moving down here to decide to bloom, but are now apparently completely acclimated) verbena bonariensis, not only blooming without water but reseeding and growing new plants everywhere without water, which also grow to maturity and somehow bloom and reseed without any water, and so on into infinity. . . kudzu and poison ivy, about which no more need be said....See MoreHostas that still look pretty good in my garden (pics)
Comments (11)LOL ... I should have included a few pics of the total meltdowns ... just for Karma balance. There's a few of them here. Thinderbolt went from pristine to gone in about a week. Right in front of the ADG is an Island Charm with leaves like netting and if you look closely you'll see that the Lungwort has a few leaf holes. (Not all from slugs) I've used one bottle of Sluggo in two years ... but plenty of ammonia spray. Regal Splendor & a baby Francee are actually the two best preserved still but they're in a spot that the Honeysuckle vine thats overhead makes it difficult to get a good pic. The birds with nests under the overhang have 'fertilized' everything underneath them this summer. That area needs a makeover badly. One of the downsides to hybridizing is the messy look of the scapes not being trimmed back. Hopefully there will be a good bout of Indian Summer before frost and I can make a little extra garden time. Move a few and freshen things. And like you said .... whatever doesn't get done will have to hold til next spring. Curtis/m2wm...See More- sherrygirl zone5 N il thanked djacob Z6a SE WI
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undertheoaksgardener7b
2 years agoWow! Beautiful specimens!
Here are a few of my mother-in-law’s from today
Raspberry Sundae, Sugar Plum, Marilyn Monroe, and Dance with Me
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2 years agolast modified: 2 years agoI did not photograph around my garden much today, but did snap a few pictures of the 2021 new recruits when I set them aside to make way for the watering hose.
- Ice Cream, Summer Serenade, and Olive Bailey Langdon in top row, and Katie Q, Blue Shadows, Fragrant Dream, and Fried Bananas in 2nd row.
- 3rd row with Dressed to Kill, Beet Salad, Punky, and Sargeant Pepper
- 4th row with Soul Shine, NOID (supposed to be Frisian Waving Steel, but obviously not), June Fever, Plum Delicious, Martini. Bottom row with Blue Moon, Summer Breeze, and Carolina Sunshine looking perfect, and Rainforest Sunrise starting to get spotty.
- Wave Runner burst its girdle and flopped some leaves. Still, not bad for 1 month after arrival.
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newhostalady Z6 ON, Canada
2 years agoSo nice to see so many good looking hosta!
I took some photos today.
Goodness Gracious
Love this one! Lakeside Love Affaire
Blue Cadet
From the left: Rainbow's End, Paradigm, June. Bottom right: Wiggles and Squiggles
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2 years agoSo many nice looking hosta still!
Goodness Gracious
Blue Cadet
Love this one! Lakeside Love Affaire
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2 years agoContinuing----
Left to right: Rainbow's End, Paradigm, June. Bottom left: Wiggles and Squiggles
Restless Sea
Stained Glass
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2 years agoContinuing---
Emerald Necklace. Finally got this one growing.
Seedling
Liberty
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gardenchick2010
2 years agolast modified: 2 years agoMost of my Hostas got slug damage this summer, so aren't looking as good as they usually do this time of year. Here's a few that still look ok.
Blue Angel (I think) looks the best of all of them.
Christmas Tree looks ok
Frances Williams still looks, surprisingly, good.
Here's a baby Forbidden Fruit that still has quite a bit of its yellow. (mama got more sun and is pretty bleached out)
For reference, this was the baby Forbidden Fruit on June 19th.
Oh, and my darling little Holy Mouse Ears who I've been babying all summer after it's traumatic slug attack.
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undertheoaksgardener7b
2 years agoAfterglow, Ben Vernooij, Sunset Grooves, and Halcyon with Ripple Effect
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2 years agonewhostalady, your hostas look great! I covert your Stained Glass and can’t wait for my Liberty to get that big
utog, I love Raspberry Sundae in that pot, looks amazing! Dance with Me looks terrific!I have a question about Ben Vernooij……..so many oeople have it but to me it looks so much like Autumn Frost or Blue Ivory. Is there a difference I am missing?
gardenchick, your hostas look good and you did a great job Holy Mouse Ears!
here are a few more from today:
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sandyslopes z6 n. UT
2 years agoThere's still lots of lush looking hostas out there!
debra, at first I thought you had the name and date for Praying Hands carved into the rock as your marker.
Allow me a bit of a pity party..... This has been a hard year for my garden. Severe drought followed by water restrictions, and day after day of smoke from fires creating unhealthy air quality has dulled my enthusiasm to get outside and do much of anything in the yard. I'm sure my blah feelings will pass and I'll love my gardens again!
But I still have a few hostas that look pretty good as of 9-10-21
Regal Splendor
Venetian Star
Mourning Dove
Ivory Queen - slow but steady growth
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nicholsworth Z6 Indianapolis
2 years agolast modified: 2 years agoI took pics of my better looking hostas in back today..
Coast to Coast..I finally planted it..rocks as usual to stop the squirrels..
Great Expectations..I marked the 2 bad leaves..but in general looks nice..
June..anyone else have a million ash tree seeds?..
Regal Splendor..I watered it after I took this pic..
First Frost..my ground is so dry..I set the sprinkler up after I saw these big cracks..the forecast for tomorrow..dry and 89..I'll be watering..
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2 years agolast modified: 2 years ago
indianagardengirl
2 years agoAntioch - that’s sun on leaves, not burn. This one gets quite a bit of sun but still happy:
Francee. i split these last year to cover more ground and they’re coming along nicely:
High Society. What more to say:
indianagardengirl
2 years agoTokudama flavocircinalis:
Paul’s Glory:
Summer Fragrance, lots of ’critter’ damage but overall good looking:
Fortunei aureomarginata in a very weedy bed:
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