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Comments (11)oaks are great ... maples could be a problem ... canopy height sounds good ... watering MIGHT be suspect .... water as you usually do .. then take a hand trowel and see if its getting 6 to 12 inches down .... no fair checking after rain ... lol ... did you have any frost that knocked the plants down this year? did you have a drought at the end of last year ... perhaps for the month or two after you put the hose away??? if i were you.. i would skip the time release.. its engineered for pots.. not for ma earth .. and i would skip all fert under trees.. as you are only encouraging them to grow into where you spread the fert ... if you want to fert.. broadcast it over the whole bed just as they emerge ... and i suggest the same thing with water ... if you water only the plants.. where would one expect the tree to grow roots??? dig up one of your stunted plants near the maple .. and see what the tree has done to it ... there is a post on moving big clumps.... if you do it properly./.. the hosta will never look back ... after hosing off all the soil .. take the time to rip out all the maple roots and be amazed at all of them .... replant in the same hoel with native soil .... never amend the soil in planting holes.. again.. the tree will grow into the plant to steal it ... trees are super competitors.. and they win every time... maples are the worst ... and may be the root of your problem [get it.. its a pun .. lol..] ken...See Morehosta growth rate?
Comments (19)A different point of view, very unscientific. Say you water well, have all equally healthy plants roughly of the same age when you buy them, the voles and frosts etc. don't get them. In a year or two, you are pleased with the growth rate of the "average" growth rate hosta. It is nice and plump. The "slow" growth rate hosta can be a disappointement. It may still look much the same. The "fast" growth rate hosta is a "yikes" plant. You realize that unless it was planted alone, you underestimated how much space it was going to gobble up in a short time. And you thought you planned and spaced so well.....Time to move it or the neighbors, and better sooner than later. ~Bunnycat...See MoreFactors Affecting Hosta Growth
Comments (15)Be sure to include soil pH as one of your questions. GE tends to grow fine in highly acidic conditions (lower pH) vs alkaline conditions. If the water you use to supplement your hostas is high in Calcium then that will also have a higher pH and limit the solubility of nutrients. I'd start with this measurement first when comparing GE in different gardens. The thought used to be that you should grow GE in a pot until it was root bound and that the container had something to do with it, but I always felt it was the peat based, acidic growing media most people used that helped it more. There are so many different factors that you will want to think about, but the big ones, in my experience, are available nutrients (this is tied to the soil pH), available moisture (and is it natural rainwater or only supplemental water), and amount of soil aeration. The amount of sunlight is not as big of a factor unless that sunlight also increases the soil temperature too much. Some things to think about. I'd be curious to know the soil pH of gardens like Don Rawson's and others who grow monster plants. Chris...See MoreWeird hosta growth.
Comments (17)While watering this morning, I found another fasciated flowerscape on Zebra Stripes. Last year, the same thing happened but it also produced a normal-looking flowerscape again in August. No other scapes yet....See Morelindalana 5b Chicago
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