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Hosta madness

Category: Garden | Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 4:04 pm

My husband got bitten by the Hosta bug about five years ago. At the time we had six or seven of the more common Hosta types. By the last count we're up to 40, and my dearly beloved has a wish list longer than my arm. I've run out of creative ideas on how to mix hostas in between other acid-soil plants. Now it's all about how to mix plants in between the hostas! Here are a few of our plants:

Minima, smallest we've got at about 3-5 cm/ 1-2 inches:



H. fluctuans "Sagae", tallest so far at 70 cm/2,3 feet:




Some minis and small ones, this is "Geisha":



"Remember Me":



"Stilletto":



"Blue Moon":



"Island Charm":



"Sultana":



"Haydon Sunset":



Some bigger ones, this is "Blue Boy", looks exactly like "Blue Cadet" so we gave that one away:



"Spilt Milk":





"June", she'll get more yellow with more sun:



"Fire and Ice":



H. undulata:



H. undulata "Mediovariegata":



H. tokudama "flavocircinalis":



A couple of big ones I just can't recall the name of:





Hostas are fairly trouble free perennials. They sprout, grow, bloom, die down and that's it really. I remove the dead leaves either late autumn or early spring, fertilize twice during spring/early summer and divide them if/when they grow too big or they start to revert. This is what reverting looks like:

"Revolution":



H. undulata "Mediovariegata":



This is not our hosta, I just wanted to show it because it needs dividing every nine months! "Dream Weaver":



I could show lots more, but I guess you're sick of hostas by now, so I think I'll just leave it be.


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glendann wrote on Sun Jun 08, 2008 4:38 pm:


Thank you Droopy for the Hosta show.I have never had one of these plants as I have very limited shade.I will have to enjoy yours from here.You have such a big collection or rather your hubby does.




 

DEBBIE1957 wrote on Sun Jun 08, 2008 4:49 pm:


I love your hosta. I bought a couple of Patriots this week to place under a fire bush where grass refuses to grow. I think I'm falling in love with them or maybe it is Hosta Madness.




 

eileen wrote on Sun Jun 08, 2008 5:08 pm:


Awwwww come on Droopy show us the rest!!! You can't let us see all those glorious hostas and then tell us there are still more you didn't post!!! More, more, more ....... pretty please.




 

Biita wrote on Sun Jun 08, 2008 5:46 pm:


OMG, i just thought hosta's were like plain with a purple flower stem,, my goodness, those are beautiful. And so many!! I agree Eileen,, I would love to see more.




 

Droopy wrote on Sun Jun 08, 2008 8:12 pm:


Thanks all for liking our hostas. They're so easy to grow in our climate and the new types with the fancy variegations are striking.

I'll show more as they grow and develop their colours. Well, ought to develop their colours, depending on the weather. Some of them really need a lot of sun to colour out properly, and we don't always get a lot of sun here.




 

Sjoerd wrote on Sun Jun 08, 2008 10:06 pm:


Marvelous collection, Droopy. I could look at these varied wonders forever.
I'm with Eileen and Biita....MORE please.:-)
You guys really are something. Hats off to your man for assembling this great and varied collection.




 

Netty wrote on Mon Jun 09, 2008 12:35 am:


Great collection Droopy. I love Hosta's too but I only have about 10 different ones - I'm not even sure what most of them are called! I do have a few of the ones you posted. More, more!




 

Droopy wrote on Mon Jun 09, 2008 6:48 am:


Thanks both, you're all too kind. We started with some very big, showy varieties, but as time passed we realized that if we got smaller ones we'd have room for more of them. *lol*




 

kuntrygal wrote on Mon Jun 09, 2008 3:12 pm:


Droopy, those are devine. All so perfect and healthy. And so many of them. You must really have a lot of shade.I tired a couple last year, but the slugs had a feast of them. Should have put my beer out!




 

Droopy wrote on Mon Jun 09, 2008 3:22 pm:


Thanks kuntrygal, I only show the ones that are nice and healthy, and delete all photos of the other ones. *lol* We don't have to grow the hostas in deep shade, because of the general lack of sunshine here. They live in part shade to full sun, most of them. Pesky slugs! We've got traps set out.





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