Playing with hosta.
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Comments (17)Love your rock garden of hostas, and I see some forget-me-not and dianthus. This new flowerbed I created this year back of our sunroom has become a real challenge. Planted a lot of my wintersown plants there and am having to watch them like babies. Trying to get the darn thistles not to take over the bed. I bed I dig out a dozen every other day. Have been thinking of turning that into a rock garden. Will see what happens come the early Fall when all stop blooming. I have some red bee balm, BES, shasta daisies, silene, garden phlox(that I am babying a lot)There are some painted daisies, rudbeckia with small flowers; a hardy geranium, pink campanula, October skies aster, sundrop plant that hasn't bloomed. I've probably missed a few. Lots have not bloomed yet. My daughter gave me a lot of BES plants last year and they must be in that family but are very small flowered and the leaves are not fuzzy like a normal BES usually is. Are there different varieties of BES? The shastas have not bloomed yet. That garden phlox is getting ready to bloom that I got from a plant swap in May. I can see a pink bloom starting to show. I'm fighting roots from a hugh old maple or oak tree that has been there for 30 plus years. A rock garden with drought tolerent plants might do well but would have to buy the big rocks. We'll see what happens this Fall and next Spring. Next year should be easier because all of these will be established already and won't require as much TLC....See MoreHostas and stuff...............LOTS of pics
Comments (10)Ouch Tammy - deer are worse than moles/shrews/and whatever except maybe voles - they're the worst because they kill before you know what happened. At least the hosta will come back next year. Is there anyway to deer fence your area or electric fence it? We had to put up a 7' deer fence for the seedlings in the field. Stupid things were lined up with knives, forks and bibs the first year we grew seedlings there. Here is a pic of a new area we did this year. Last fall I put the whiskey barrels inbetween trees where we could not plant anything because the roots were too close to the surface. This year I added companion plants and hosta to the rest of the area. Here are some more of the containers I use - these are hypertufa my husband made for me. This picture is two years old but I could plant lots of mini hosta into a very small area. It is my way of cramming lots of plants into a tiny space. I will see if I can find some pics of some Lakeside plants. This year I got Fresh Prince, Color Blue, Beach Bum, Love Affaire, Hoola Hoop and Storm Watch from her but don't have pics of them. I seldom photo young plants since it never does them justice. Lakeside Kalaidescope Lakeside Big Scoop This is a breeder plant I bought last year that gave me lots of streaked seedlings this year. I lovingly call her Mortgage Payment. Lakeside Surfrider Lakeside Black Satin, it might be one of my favorite hosta. I planted L. Coal Miner and Rhapsody last year but whatever tunneled under the plants last year set them back and I haven't taken their picture either. If anyone wants some hosta seeds, please say something in the fall to me. I will have a ton of streaked seeds available from my own seedlings and other known parents of streakers and will be happy to share. I cannot plant them all even though I try. I will also have seeds from some solid blues and golds and will share those also. 90% of those will be solid green, but you will get a small percentage of blue or gold from them. Brooke...See MoreThank you, Alexa/elf 2006!!! Lots of pics.!
Comments (5)Whew--yes it does, Alexa!! I should have labeled them more carefully--but, you know how that goes sometimes!! So--ken--"I am so excited about 'Green With Envy'....!!" Shall I start this epic over or can you remember what I've said already, but thanking 'you' for that one, instead??? And, Alexa, did I tell YOU how great 'Paradise Joyce' is looking?? hahaha Being so well-travelled it's a testament to how tough hosta really are, isn't it!!! Thank you, Alexa, for straightening things out for me!! Keep remembering, in case I forget again, okay? ;o) Janice...See MoreLooking for Illinois Hosta-holics
Comments (81)Hi! I live in Hickory Hills (SW suburb of Chicago). Been lurking (and occasionally posting) here for about six years now. It's great! I love all the pictures, plus the forum is so informative and friendly. My hosta collection is rather small (just under 40 varieties) but I'm planning my first trip ever to Hornbaker's soon, so that should help! Lisa...See Moreken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
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