Thank you, Chris!! Will give it a try!
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- Oct 23, 2013 10:43 am
- Forum: Hellebore Forum
- Topic: Moving Hellebores in October
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7262
- Oct 18, 2013 8:32 pm
- Forum: Hellebore Forum
- Topic: Moving Hellebores in October
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7262
Moving Hellebores in October
I'd like to move several hellebores to a new location. I'm in z6, about 20 miles south of Nashville. I assume by the fact that growers are still shipping hellebores, it would be okay to move them now, mid-October. What's your opinion?
- Mar 20, 2009 1:53 am
- Forum: Hosta Forum
- Topic: Which hostas are you most anticipating?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1006
Re: Which hostas are you most anticipating?
I guess I'm one of the "all of them" anticipators . . . two weeks ago we moved all the pots from my daughter's house to our new one, because they've started to sprout and I wanted to get them moved before they leafed out. I'm sort of holding my breath about how they've fared in pots all winter, in t...
- Oct 11, 2008 11:25 pm
- Forum: Hosta Forum
- Topic: 'Spose these guys eat slugs?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 768
'Spose these guys eat slugs?
DH and I were out at the new house we're building -- I was taking open-wall photos and he was helping the electrician finish up his work. As we left, these guys crossed the lane ahead of us, and since I had my camera on my lap, I couldn't resist taking some pictures! They're actually one family of t...
- Sep 21, 2008 12:51 am
- Forum: Hosta Forum
- Topic: Hummer on Plantaginea
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1550
Re: Hummer on Plantaginea
My house plants are on the little porch of the apartment we're in this summer . . . when I noticed hummers at the red tree hibiscus flowers, I quickly put up a feeder, which they found within 5 minutes. I've been thrilled that when I'm on the porch using my cell phone (poor signal inside) they're wi...
- Sep 06, 2008 8:38 pm
- Forum: Hosta Forum
- Topic: So what are you doing in your hosta gardens these days?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2518
Re: So what are you doing in your hosta gardens these days?
As I've been doing all summer, once a week I drive to my daughter's house and water all my pots of hosta -- it takes about 90 minutes to get them all soaked. We've actually had rain this week, but I've noticed that the leaves seem to shelter the soil in the pots, so even when it rains, the soil is o...
- Aug 25, 2008 8:48 pm
- Forum: Hosta Forum
- Topic: early dormancy?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 917
Re: early dormancy?
It drizzled all day today! I can't imagine we got all that much, but it's supposed to continue tomorrow . . . would LOVE a nice steady rain for several days! We'd hoped to get some tail-end benefit from Fay but didn't seem to happen.
- Aug 03, 2008 12:33 am
- Forum: Hosta Forum
- Topic: Battling Virginia Creeper.....
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1984
Re: Battling Virginia Creeper.....
Many years ago, a nursery owner told me that the most effective time to spray poison ivy is in the fall, when it's pulling nutrients down to the roots for winter dormancy. I battled PI at the lake house and sprayed it whenever I noticed it, but I always made sure to make a special trip around the ya...
- Jul 25, 2008 10:48 pm
- Forum: Hosta Forum
- Topic: New "companion" plant for hosta - LOL
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1001
Been there, done that! In my early gardening years, I carefully tended a pokeweed clear through the growing season . . . I'd put in several new perennials the previous fall and assumed this was just a very successful one! When it outgrew everything else, I finally did some checking . . . my green th...
- Jul 18, 2008 9:46 pm
- Forum: Hosta Virus X Forum
- Topic: Good news!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1969
- Jul 03, 2008 2:04 pm
- Forum: Hosta Forum
- Topic: The winner, my favorite of all, Thunderbolt
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1785
I'm curious, too, about the conditions Thunderbolt likes. Ed's fabulous plant is in Wisconsin; Carol's is in central Illinois. The two people who reported losses are in Oklahoma and Alabama . . . This is probably not a big enough sample from which to make generalizations . . . so maybe more people c...
- Jun 30, 2008 9:03 pm
- Forum: Hosta Forum
- Topic: Not Not Pic of the Day - adios for now
- Replies: 32
- Views: 3554
Sounds like a wonderful trip, Jim . . . hope it's all you expect and then some! I'll really miss your NPODs, and hope you'll consider doing at least NPOWs when you return. It's been obvious that you put a lot of time in on them and they've been entirely enjoyable and greatly appreciated from this en...
- Jun 28, 2008 11:40 pm
- Forum: Hosta Forum
- Topic: My front hosta bed is huge--only the 2nd year!!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1508
- Jun 27, 2008 8:11 pm
- Forum: Hosta Forum
- Topic: Not Pic of the Day 6-27-08 A long time ago...
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1573
Oh, my, Jim . . . red convertibles and cruisin' in the same post!! In our small northern Indiana town, cruisin' meant up 3rd street, down Main Street and out to Bowers' drive in . . . a circuit of Bowers' and back downtown . . . to do it again . . . there was a time in the 60s that cruisin' caused s...
- Jun 26, 2008 3:32 pm
- Forum: Hosta Forum
- Topic: While on the subject of names, this one needs a name too...
- Replies: 45
- Views: 3524
- Jun 26, 2008 3:31 pm
- Forum: Hosta Forum
- Topic: What do you think of this name?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1583
- Jun 24, 2008 10:22 pm
- Forum: Hosta Forum
- Topic: Not Pic of the Day 6-24-08 Here's to the ladies...
- Replies: 18
- Views: 13300
Sooo, one of you hybridizers who turns up a nice tall hosta that shows "her" legs nicely should name her Can Can Dancer . . . maybe one with red stockings. Shocking! I spent a nice hour at my daughters' house this afternoon watering my pots and it struck me again how much I like Sagae and all the Sa...
- Jun 23, 2008 10:23 pm
- Forum: The Crafter's Corner
- Topic: Something different.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 13655
A: I've been trying to decide which one I like best . . . I love the grace of the daylily coiled basket, but the elderberry one is so perfect because it utilized two parts of the plant! I wish I were close enough to take your class! Congratulations for making lemonade out of a lemon-situation for yo...
- Jun 22, 2008 9:45 am
- Forum: Hosta Forum
- Topic: Not Pic of the Day 6-20-08 Sew what?!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2097
- Jun 21, 2008 11:49 pm
- Forum: Hosta Forum
- Topic: Not Pic of the Day 6-21-08 What does a guy have to do...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2118
I suspect there won't be a book . . . although I think it's a great idea . . . so I'm just saving them in a file of their own and can print out my own little notebook full of NPODs . . . again, thanks, Jim, for an interesting essay. I've only had PH for a couple years, but I enjoy the contrast it pr...