Some of my crazy hostas are pipping, here in March!
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Exposed hosta pips
Comments (8)Kalija, The hairy stuff is remnants from last year's petioles. The pips you are seeing are covered by a cataphyl which is protective material around the pip. If you begin to see those pips elongate and become more green then you can cover them with a frost blanket or a pot or whatever you have to protect them from frost. If you see exposed roots then you can cover them with a bit of soil or mulch, but there is no need to dig up Hosta at this point, unless you want to move them. When in doubt, leave them alone. More Hosta are killed by too much "love" than by neglect. Steve...See MoreThe mystery hosta has pips!
Comments (23)i ALWAYS go with the undulata clan ... when there are no or few other named plants in the garden ... peeps who arent collectors... arent going to have rare.. newer hosta... in a garden ... but there is always the chance.. that some of the 30 to 50 year old standards may be there... and that is why i was also thinking along the lines of the old clones of Antioch type plants .... but there is something that bothers me about the way this thing came up in the first pic.. and the last pic ... its not properly clumping.. its too spread out.. which makes me think... it is planted way too deep ... with the undulata crowd... it doesnt matter... but many of the newer foo foo ones.. are not going to appreciate being planted too deep ... there are 3 basic pieces to a hosta ... the roots below... the leaves above ... and a potato like crown... and the crown.. should be at surface level ... year around.. i see no crown on this one.... so your first project.. is to dig this up.. perhaps split it in two ... and replant it at the proper depth ... some guy did a post about moving a fully leafed out hosta.. all you need to know.. is in that post.. including the tape trick if it leafs out before you can do it ... enabled yet????? ... lol ... are you glad.. i referred you here.. from the name that plant forum??? ken ps: use the GW search engine for that post...See MoreThis pip belongs to what hosta? Should we play a game?
Comments (53)Well, yeah, it does look like candles. Good job. And I approve your acceptance speech, Bev. Well done. Raining here, 2nd day, lots of new growth I betcha.Predicted at least one more day. DH, wearing a slicker, is out spreading mulch in the beds against the house to keep dirt from splashing up on the white stucco. What would I do without him....See MorePip, Pip, Hooray!
Comments (25)Wow, BIG increasing. Pictures, please :) Here sping has been cold. I have only two hostas in ground, which have pips (noid and for my suprise Great Expectation. Others are still sleeping. But that is good, we got more snow this weeks monday. We had already all snow melted, but in one night in snowed 10cm. Now all snow has gone and sun is shining. Forecast looks that we will finally have warmer weather. So of course I had to buy few hostas ;) NIce pip counting for everyone....See MoreEsther-B, Zone 7a
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