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Well one hosta got dug up. Do you think it is hardy enough that if I plant it again it just might recover?

The other one has started to come up. I have no idea how the snow we are suppose to get on sunday is going to effect it.

i always left mine out all winter, never dug em up. and they come back every year. just cover it before the snow hits it. :)

Hostas are tough, I'm in zone 3-4 and they get snow and frost, they've never faded away on me yet. Replant the hosta, if it was dug up recently it should still be dormant.

Thankyou,

I'll give it a try. Maybe I'll get lucky.

I bought one the year before.
It didn't bloom last year.
It's up again,but it has alot more leaves than before....think it'll bloom?Could all the fertilizer my brugmansia gets be causing the not blooming?
I've done killed the divsions my mom gave me of hers.It does receive some sun,is shaded in morning time.

I've heard of people getting their sewer line replaced, only to discover that the sewer line ran under a hosta-bed AFTER it had been dug up. She said she couldn't even find several hostas, but they started to sprout up again a few weeks later. I've also heard that if they get nematodes that you can dig them up, shake off the soil, and then put them in your car and park it in the sun. Do that a few days and you'll kill the nematodes without doing too much injury to the hosta. Don't know if I'd go that far, but I thought I'd share.

Njoynit, I get blooms starting the second year usually. I buy the tubers and get maybe 3 or 4 leaves the first year and the next year they fill out quite beautifully.

I bought some yellow ones last year, they are beautiful. i'll certainly be picking up more this year.

I have definitely mistreated mine and most of them are still around so I can't complain.

hostas are so pretty, but not nearly as heat tolerant as i need, cause i don't have any good shade gardens.

Hi Jiffy, Don't they have some that will take full sun? Our Church has some that is planted in full sun and it is really large.

And would you believe the one that got upturned is trying to put up shoots. That is one forgiving plant.

Francee, August moon, Birchwood parky's gold, Undalata Albomarginata and Paul's glory can take zone 8 and sun.

my daughter has planted some, so we will see. they were looking pretty bad the other day though, when i was there in the afternoon.

even though we are zone 8b, in places/some days we are more a 9.

Darker color green hostas are more sun tolerant then varigated or light color hostas

I have lots off hosta's, never put them in full sun, they like mostly shade, I feed mine plant food at the first sign's off them pushing through the soil,as I do with all my plants, it gives them a good start. Love hosta's, leave mine in the ground all year round

I thought the varigated did better in full sun and the dark green were more shade loving? lol leave it to me to get it backwards.

I have all varities planted in shade and sun. Although we don't get very hot summers anyway. Don't know how they'd fair out in a warmer climate though.

I forget if the blue hostas are more blue in shade or sun (I thought it was shade, but I am really not sure). Mine have taken a beating, and come back (even switching from full sun to deep shade)

I've mistreated this poor hosta just about everyway you can and believe it or not. Inspite of being dug up and left for dead for several day it is sprouting. Of course it is behind the other hostas in that area but it's giving it all it's got. It should get a medal for surviving my lack of gardening skills and savy. WTG Hosta!

I bought a five hostas that were in 4" pots in early March. We had a cold snap and I had not planted them yet. Needless to say, I thought they were dead--the leaves had frozen, and the one hosta I had planted in the previous year was coming out of the ground and had not frozen. My hostas are looking wonderful now. Even the ones I thought were dead!

As you can see, the second one from the left is the established hosta. The others, I planted this year. It looks like I planted them too close together--but I can fix that. The boxwoods are sitting in the bed because we're planning on planting these soon. In the meantime, I've left them in an area of the yard that only gets sun until 11am.

It will fill in quick, I love Hostas especially the yellow ones.

I love hostas, too. I am going to buy more for the front yard and try to fill in the rest of the side of the house with hostas as my "anchor" plant.

Next time I'm at my boyfriend's dad's house, I'll take a picture of his. His are huge and wonderfully beautiful!

mine are close to blooming.I can't find my tag,but remember I bought cause said could take some sun.I believe its the thicker leaves that can take sun.I've looked at the ones at local wally world...but can't decide.My moms does great,but she's TN in zone 6.she recieved hers from neighbor.They had a storm take out there only shade tree...so gave mom their shade plants.I think sis got some hosta divisions from that transfer too...hers are great too.her yards mostly shade..same zone as mom.I believe they were called patriot or something close to that were a dark green with white.I imagine my heat in summer roasted them in the shade.

i'm in zone 7a and they get west exposure where I have them. They require a lot of water to stay healthy but so far so good. Even the one that got dug up and left for dead for a week is recovering. There bed is entirely compost this year and they are loving it.

Mine haven't poked out of the ground yet. They have some beautiful varieties at the garden center. I want to get a few more variagated ones.

I have one that is varigated, one that is a mid green, and one that is the blue green with the deep veins in it.

I started off with 5 but two didn't make it the first year. I had planted them in full sun and clay that dryed out really fast.

I'm glad to hear of story's of hostas taking a beating and still surviving. I just planted 6 hostas last fall and while they are all coming up I had to move 4 of them to a different spot yesterday. The roots didn't seem to established and they are still quite small so I was hoping that they would survive the transplant. They are in a better spot now anyway. When I planted them there was a great big huge fir tree and they were in mostly shade all day, then my neighbor had that tree cut down and all of a sudden they were getting a lot of sun. Now they are up against the house on the north side so I think they'll be happy there.

give them lots of water for a few days to help them adjust. And if you have some finished compost they like that too. It'll help them settle in.

A local nursery has these HUGE hostas for about$20 each. They're neat ones, too. I have to keep myself out of that place! I am spending all my money on plants!


*stands up*

Hi. I'm Mandy, and I'm addicted to buying plants.

I'm addicted too. There are lots of us here. I definitely have to stay out of garden centers and online nurseries and not look at catalogs. The list goes on. Almost anything is libel to start a buying frenzy.

Manderlyh, my local nursery is right across the road. When it first opened I was ready for an addiction center .

In a way, I'm glad she is expensive, keeps me from going to often.

Hi meet Njoynit...a CERTIFIED plantaholiac.I have a certificate somewhere saying that too.

Here's an earlier-in-season shot of hosta.Its going to bloom soon.has the bud stalk,which bears liliac flowers.I now understand'crowns'I looked at underneath leaves when weeding today.the one pictured has 2 crowns the other is still small,but were bought at same time.

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SO if you have one developeing a crown....do you divide in fall or spring?
I have a taped Garden diary show(HGTV folks 7am or is it 7:30?)a man in A suberb of atlanta GA has his yard FILLED with them some in pots some not.I liked the red stemed ones& we're some smaller leafed ones they stayed compact.

here's mine.
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I've got 79 photos to offload on camera& hopefully the buds on budstalk will bloom real real soon.

These hostas are over 14 years old. They were planted in full all day sun when we moved in then, by the previous owners, and looking very sickly. I moved them to morning sun only, and they have been thriving ever since. I've divided them numerous times to the point where my dad was able to line his entire backyard with them. They are in my front yard in front of the house.



Another spot by the front steps:


Rounding the front corner on the left side of the house:

WOW they look Great Lynne!!!! I have one that is starting to bloom!! Last year it didn't bloom at all!!!

I really like the idea of it lining an area It makes a great border!!!

Oh, I can't wait for mine to fill out like that. Wow.

They are all beautys at first in the spring, the the bugs do their thing and get full of holes..

I've never had trouble with slugs in my hosta. They all seem to gather(and stay) under the terracotta planters by my bench.

Lucky you.

I put my hostas in with my chinese lanterns. Can I spell another gardening booboo? The chinese lanterns are taking over which was just what I wanted them to do. But, I didn't expect them to do it this fast. So now I've got to figure out if it is possible to move the hostas while they are growing? Anyone have any tips for me? I really need a landscaper babysitter. I'm forever marching to my own drummer and it just doesn't work when it comes to gardening lol.

you can move anything right now.That is the Joy of spring.

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