Show me your Hosta!

[Stubbornhillfarm]

I'm so excited! I found person who has 30 Hosta for sale for $30.00. Yes, $30.00 for all of them! I figure even if they are only 1 or two leaves per pot (which I doubt) they will fill out quickly. So...I think I am going to make a purchase tomorrow. I don't even know what kind they are. But figure a mass planting will look lovely no matter what!

Chickie'sMomaIn NH, are you close to Rochester at all? If you were, I would certainly consider buying some of yours when you divide. Can't wait to see your pictures!

lesa, that sounds like a big project, but well worth it! How exciting to be renovating a big old house. That is my dream is to buy an old farm house and turn it into a B&B. Someday!

 

[Jared77]

Jump on it! At that price why not! We have quite a few hostas here ourselves.

Some of our 36 patriots we bought to line the flower bed with. I LOVE the contrast being almost 50/50 like that it really pops from far away.

Our 3 LARGE hostas. No idea on type but they came with the house and we've since moved them.

Same plant a perspective photo that's my hand.

Different variety

Curly leaf type

Straight leave version

Another type

One thing we do is hit the big box stores garden sections. Walmart, Home Depot, Lowes, etc. They'll put their quart sized plants on sale, and even the 3" pots will go up. The hostas may not look perfect but plant them, leave them alone, feed any of the late planted ones in the spring and they've always come up with a vengeance. I've gotten quite a few deals that way, many on the clearance racks and the following year you'd never know they were clearance plants.

 

[chris09]

Here is some of mine.

Chris

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

I'm so excited! I found person who has 30 Hosta for sale for $30.00. Yes, $30.00 for all of them! I figure even if they are only 1 or two leaves per pot (which I doubt) they will fill out quickly. So...I think I am going to make a purchase tomorrow. I don't even know what kind they are. But figure a mass planting will look lovely no matter what!

Chickie'sMomaIn NH, are you close to Rochester at all? If you were, I would certainly consider buying some of yours when you divide. Can't wait to see your pictures!

lesa, that sounds like a big project, but well worth it! How exciting to be renovating a big old house. That is my dream is to buy an old farm house and turn it into a B&B. Someday!

yep! i'm in Rochester! right by exit 11! i'll be at the Children's Festival tomorrow selling tie-dyed shirts, pond plants and some other stuff. i can bring a couple of small types if you can make it!

i can bring a piece of 'Dance with Me', 2 different 'tiara' varieties, 'Abby', 'Allen McConnell' (i think that was what it is called), 'Stiletto', 'Strip Tease', 'Hanky Panky'. i might be able to get you a piece of the 'Sum and Substance' if you're interested in that too! i think i have 'Blue Cadet' and 'Blue Hearts'. i have them for so long that i forgot which is which with those 2 blues!

just let me know so i can run around the yard

Jared77, that blue with chartreuse edge might be 'Frances Williams' i have that one too and it usually flowers when the others are not in bloom! though it looks like you have a strange 'sport' coming from it! it looks like it hardly has a blue streak in it-it's mostly the chartreuse!

 

[skeeter9]

Jared and Chris, those are beautiful plants. Can't wait until mine get that big.

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

Tollhouse: you can grow hosta? I have two of them and boy do I baby them. They are in pots on the shady part of the north facing deck. I mist them, water carefully too. Otherwise they would fry here.

I see bleeding heart in one of the pics. I love those plants, but again its too hot and not enuf humidity here to grow them. But I did have some gorgeous ones in the San Jose Bay Area, due to the fog we had every summer morning.

Sorry Skeeter. I meant to use your handle, not your location.

 

[skeeter9]

Yes, Murphy's, we can grow them here, but they can get just a little bit of sun or they get crispy. By the end of summer they definitely look stressed, but apparently if we just keep pouring the water to them and they do ok. Luckily, our evenings cool down pretty quickly up here at this elevation, which gives them a break overnight. My hostas up here are babies, but my "neighbor" has some older ones and they are doing fine. Hopefully I have mine planted in appropriate places??

 

[renovationmom]

Jump on it! At that price why not! We have quite a few hostas here ourselves.

Some of our 36 patriots we bought to line the flower bed with. I LOVE the contrast being almost 50/50 like that it really pops from far away.

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h85/Jared712/SAM_1432.jpg

Our 3 LARGE hostas. No idea on type but they came with the house and we've since moved them.

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h85/Jared712/SAM_1433.jpg

Same plant a perspective photo that's my hand.

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h85/Jared712/SAM_1434.jpg

Different variety

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h85/Jared712/SAM_1435.jpg

Curly leaf type

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h85/Jared712/SAM_1436.jpg

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h85/Jared712/SAM_1437.jpg

Straight leave version

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h85/Jared712/SAM_1439.jpg

Another type

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h85/Jared712/SAM_1438.jpg

One thing we do is hit the big box stores garden sections. Walmart, Home Depot, Lowes, etc. They'll put their quart sized plants on sale, and even the 3" pots will go up. The hostas may not look perfect but plant them, leave them alone, feed any of the late planted ones in the spring and they've always come up with a vengeance. I've gotten quite a few deals that way, many on the clearance racks and the following year you'd never know they were clearance plants.

Your Hosta's are gorgeous. I want to try some myself. I like the full leafed ones, as opposed to the strap leaf ones. I saw some with pretty little purple flower stalks, they lined each side of a sidewalk, so the flowers stood out as much as the leaves do. Do only certain ones produce the flowers?

I also wondered about the purple leafed plant you have planted amoung your hosta's, it looks wonderful in with your hosta's, do you know it's name?(I also love purple) I have an area with dapled shade, under some well limbed up trees, and I would like to fill the bed in front of the tress with Hosta's.

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

most hosta produce a light purple flower, some will bloom with a white flowers. a neat resource for looking up information on the different named varieties is http://www.hostalibrary.org/a/a.html

 

[Stubbornhillfarm]

Jared and Chris, Really nice pictures! Thanks for sharing. Such a variety. And yes, they look awesome next to the Corral Bells.

Chickie'sMomaInNH, so sorry I missed you and missed getting back to you! I only work in Rochester, and hadn't had a chance to get on the Internet over the past couple of days. I hope you had success at the Festival! I would love to swing over and take a look at your varieties some time. Maybe on my lunch break or something.

I have some little Hostas (don't know the name), but they are small and have small leafs. I bent down to weed near them last night and oh my, the flowers smelled so good. It was a nice surpirse!