Hallson Gardens

GREAT NEWS about your cancer!!!!!

Not great news of snow and cold!!!!

So happy for your remission.



MM

I noticed, Jim, you sly dog!

MM

Phyllis, I've been wondering about you. I sent you a PM and never heard back so was concerned. I'm praying for you and think of you often. I hope you are able to be out in the garden this spring and enjoy all the earth's gifts to mankind. I was not able to grow any seeds this winter and have missed ...

Thanx! Viktoria.
You're tops on my list of good people too!
I love your spunk.

MM

Phyllis - I like your list and have to agree with almost all of it except people keep giving me wigs that they never wore. :lol: And they hurt, and they itch, and the cold winter wind blows right through them. I've learned to like vanilla Ensure but I'm eating good now and have gained back most of m...

Today, even with spring allergies running rampant and sinus infection brewing I finally dug out my old stanby H 'Green Piecrust' again using Phyllis' slicing and dicing method. What a challenge. It's now in 4 big pots waiting for a new home along with the giant unknown which I really thing might be ...

Phyllis, I was thinking of you today when contemplating how to go about digging up a huge hostas. Then your words came to me, "I've learned that chopping a large hosta into pieces is much easier than wrestling the huge, heavy monster all in one chunk." Or something close to that. So thanx! Phyllis f...

Great thoughts on the OLJ. Please forward them on to the editors. I believe they would be very interested in your insights and comments. This is a new venture with only 2 issues under their belts to date. Work will begin very soon on the 3rd OLJ. All contact information is included in the OLJ. Than...

Isn't it funny how easy things are once you know how to do them??? The AHS homepage is disrupted right now due to the on-line auction that just got over last night. Usually there is a members only click spot. :beer: And it was too late last night to go on any further but there are advertisements un...

Dan, I haven't been to Hallson's for a long time but here tonight and see your article of interest on the OLJ (on-line Hosta Journal). Thank you for your good information and bringing the OLJ to "attention" here on the web-site. That's a good thing!!! In response to your ending comments there is a l...

Lovely, plant, ViolaAnn. Salute is a good one.

MM

Phyllis - My garden began in fill-dirt, heavy grey & green clay. I would have to dig out a 5 gallong bucket of clay, maybe 2 buckets, then fill the hole with soil worthy of sustaining plant life (compost), then water, then plant the plant. I was much younger then. Not sure I'd do it again. Once I ha...

Stealth is the streaked form of H 'Minuteman' that appeared in the tc process according to the database @ the "Hosta Library". MM

Our gardens have been on several tours. Dogs are not welcome even on a leash. One couple from England brought her beagle along. Bad!!! We have 6 cats. This is their home. We try to keep them in the shop when we have tours so no one trips over them. Little children do not enjoy garden tours so if you...

Well, egg is on my face once more! :oops: My cousin's daughter is getting married in Sioux Falls, SD, you guessed it, on August 13th. After talking with hosta friends we've decided to just plain cancel the Iowa Hallson Reuion 2011. :cry: We'll see what next year brings. I had my games all planned o...

Jim, Wish you and Shelia were attending. We had so much fun @ Reldon's last year. I understand you are still convalenscing from what Reldon told me. Take care of yourself. The time we all visited your garden / home last year was so much fun too. You 2 are great hosts. And hail had just damaged your ...

Candy Dish is an awesome plant. The one I have is not the fastest grower but maturing into a lovely plant. It just has to get past puberty and that akward stage. I have seen just perfect clumps of Candy Dish. And it usually takes the prize in cut leaf competition.

MM

Angie,
I believe the cultivar was undalata that grew from left-over roots & in the glass of water in my house. It's a very tenacious plant with a strong will to survive.

MM

A few years ago I dug out some old variety hostas. A few leaves were broken off down by the crown. I brought them into the house to enjoy in a vase of water. To my great surprise two stems developed roots & new shoots (just like cuttings from house plants do). Eventually I moved the new plant into a...