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.
~~Tam~ You can bury all your troubles by digging in the dirt.
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 will age ungracefully until I become an old woman in a small garden..doing whatever the Hell I want!
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.
~~Tam~ You can bury all your troubles by digging in the dirt.
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 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.
~~Tam~ You can bury all your troubles by digging in the dirt.
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.
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 will age ungracefully until I become an old woman in a small garden..doing whatever the Hell I want!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 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.
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:
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.
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