Let’s see your happiest late season hosta
Most of my hosta are declining…..a few are still looking pretty good. The best today is my Coast to Coast. It’s second season here it got huge and loved the sun exposure it got. Here is my happiest late season hosta, lets see yours! Please excuse the plant litter…… Ann, I took this photo today 😳
Sherry
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ilovetogrow z9 Jax Florida
8 months agoSummer Music a return from last year and I did not think it would make another year as they arrived so late in July. She loves the greenhouse.
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8 months agoCoast to Coast is also my best but I have a few others that are decent that I will grab a pic of when the sun comes up
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8 months agoI dont water, except when a planting is new. I have a lot that are showing signs of lack of water, but I also have a few looking great.
Krossa Regal
Halcyon
June
And how about Tokudama Flavocircinalis?
Or maybe Summer Fragrance
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Pieter zone 7/8 B.C.
8 months ago
The mice are still showing well.
My blue corner with 'Firnline', 'Touch of Class', 'Ben Vernooij', 'Touch of Frost', 'Bulletproof', 'Blue Ivory', 'Regal Splendor', 'Sleeping Beauty' and I'm sure I forgot one somewhere.
'Fragrant Bouquet' doing funky things.
Pieter
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nicholsworth Z6 Indianapolis
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djacob Z6a SE WI
8 months agoI have a few looking really good and some looking really bad. Here’s the good:
Rainbows End, also in latent blooming.
GL Blue Banana, always looks good.
Blue Ivory in late t bloom as well.
HP also with latent blooms.
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peren.all Zone 5a Ontario Canada
8 months agoSuch good looking plants starting with your Coast to Coast Sherry!
Smash Hit
Fingerprint
Beyond Glory
It has been so hot I have spent the last couple of weeks in the shade weeding & mulching.
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Beth - Michigan 6A
8 months agoSo much fun to see what still looks good late in the season. So much of my garden has the late summer uglies. Here are a few still looking good.
Goodness Gracious
My Blue Garden, Blue Mouse Ears, Ice Prancer, Silly String, Not Touch of class, Mourning Dove, Skywriter, Blue Mammoth, Earth Angel, Hudson Bay
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Ben D (zone 7b)
8 months agoNot looking their finest, but still good considering the season...
Apple Candy
Devon Green
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nicholsworth Z6 Indianapolis
7 months agomorning walk 9-21..my ‘Fire Island’ look decent too..‘Blue Mouse Ears’..’First Frost’..’June’..all look nice..
I blame myself for the ones that don’t look nice..I let them dry out..in my defense I’m still recovering from shoulder surgery..that’s my story and I’m sticking to it 😂..
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Pieter zone 7/8 B.C.
7 months ago
Had a quick peek around my backyard earlier today and the mice are still making a fabulous showing!
Pieter
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old_dirt 6a
7 months agoI still have a few that look good, most of the Halcyon family but think my best one is this So Sweet. Had it for ten years and was originally sold and tagged as Yellow River.
So Sweet - pic today
Pieter zone 7/8 B.C.
7 months ago
Doing some yard cleanup today and this is 'Ben Vernooij' not knowing when to throw in the towel 🙄
Pieter
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Beth - Michigan 6A
7 months agoFun to see a few hostas still looking good by mid October. Frances Williams which I usually think of as a diva with it's "NO SUN" preference, caught my eye today and is still looking good.
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7 months agolast modified: 7 months agoAfter the heat and drought. we now are getting rain and they dont want to quit.
normally they would have taken a freeze by now.
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littlebug Zone 5 Missouri
7 months agolast modified: 7 months agoAbiqua Drinking Gourd in my shadiest spot. (The burned leaves on the right belong to a Liberty - always a complainer about sunshine.)
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A family portrait of sorts as in these are all related: 'Ben Vernooij', 'Remember Me', 'First Frost', 'Sleeping Beauty', 'Firnline' and 'Blue Ivory'.....
Pieter
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7 months agoWe have had some near frost nights but some are still looking relatively good others not so much
June amid falling leaves that I had to clear away.
Touch of Class with Wolverine behind & Monashee Blue Cups poking up in front.
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6 months agotook a few pics tonight..ran out of light but I got a pic of June..
fall color..
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6 months agoWinter Snow almost living up to her name. Still has flower heads from re-bloom.
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6 months agoA couple pics from today, I thought looked pretty nice.
June reversion
Big Mama
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6 months agoAn updated picture of the Abiqua Drinking Gourds I posted a few weeks ago. A particularly colorful shot, I thought. A couple of Liberties coming out of their sulk from being in the sunshine and Abiquas bright yellow. I’d sure like to find some more of those clear purple heucheras next spring; if I can find some I’ll move those Liberties elsewhere.
djacob Z6a SE WI
6 months agoHave to post winter Snow and Pandoras Box because their rebloom flowers actually opened!
I like how this BME looks here:
debra
lindalana 5b Chicago
6 months agoAww, still looking great for many! We are about to ho into hard frost so I am expecting things to look like mush after next 2 nights. My seedlings are the only ones that still joyful.
lindalana 5b Chicago
6 months agoFunnily primula is trying to bloom
My heuchera seedlings are growing
Late aconitum still blooming Sambucus Tiger eye is all done behind it.
nicholsworth Z6 Indianapolis
6 months agosome nice looking hosta today..
Blue Mouse Ears..
Empress Wu..
June..
Autumn Frost..
was 28° when I woke up today..my hands were freezing when I took these pics..
Bookwoman