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- Jul 17, 2013 6:39 am
- Forum: Hosta Forum
- Topic: Differences between LS Black Satin vs Ventricosa
- Replies: 10
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Re: Differences between LS Black Satin vs Ventricosa
My LBS is much smaller than ventricosa and the leaf is wider, more heart shaped. Both are nice and dark, with a satiny sheen - LBS seems darker, but this may be due to location differences. As with many smaller hostas with smaller root systems, LBS seems more finicky than the species: one of mine di...
- May 27, 2013 2:56 am
- Forum: Hosta Forum
- Topic: Hosta Andromeda update
- Replies: 3
- Views: 503
Hosta Andromeda update
Andromeda 2013-S.jpg This is my unique 2008 seedling of Spilt Milk. It's a small hosta with very thick, tough leaves, as yet unregistered. I showed it here in 2010: https://www.perennialreference.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=53627&p=466976&hilit=andromeda#p466976 You can see its leaves have widen...
- Jul 07, 2012 6:55 am
- Forum: Hosta Forum
- Topic: 24 Hours Left Before The Planet Explodes
- Replies: 39
- Views: 1904
Re: 24 Hours Left Before The Planet Explodes
With three of us at home and 15 non-hosta people living in homes adjacent to mine, I'll leave the planet with 54! And I'll share.
- Jul 07, 2012 6:48 am
- Forum: Hosta Forum
- Topic: Weed Bed treatment?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1786
Re: Weed Bed treatment?
My approach to areas I want to defoliate is to pull/trim the growth down, lay down a few layers of newspaper or a single layer brown paper composting bags, and then a couple of inches of compost (or bark mulch) on that. The paper layer acts as a decent biodegradable barrier. Without light, most weed...
- Aug 06, 2010 12:58 am
- Forum: Hosta Forum
- Topic: My little Andromeda
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1630
Re: My little Andromeda
Ah, the name? easy one, a little astronomical allusion to the connection between our own galaxy, the Milky Way, and the nearest one just like it, which is the spiral galaxy Andromeda. In Greek mythology, the Milky Way was the result of the goddess Hera's spilt milk...
- Jul 30, 2010 4:33 pm
- Forum: Hosta Forum
- Topic: My little Andromeda
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1630
Re: My little Andromeda
Well, the pod parent is definitely Spilt Milk, but as I don't keep record of my hand-pollination exercises, there's no telling the pollen parent. Might have been natural/aka bumblebee, or my own undocumented efforts. But it's a good grower, has several eyes already, and I'm looking forward to seeing...
- Jul 29, 2010 6:45 pm
- Forum: Hosta Forum
- Topic: My little Andromeda
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1630
My little Andromeda
Here's one of my more interesting seedlings from 2008. As you can surmise from the handle of the plastic knife/label, it's quite a little one. The pod parent is Spilt Milk.
- May 10, 2010 10:50 am
- Forum: Hosta Forum
- Topic: Hosta Bulletproof?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5835
Re: Hosta Bulletproof?
Interesting. My TOC had developed an all-blue eye last spring, so I separated it off, and gave it a different name (Class Act), as I had no idea the all-blue version had already been named. My Bulletproof Class Act :wink: has two eyes this year, one all blue, one the typical TOC. I'm inclined to lea...
- May 02, 2010 10:19 pm
- Forum: Hosta Forum
- Topic: Last to come up...
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1015
Re: Last to come up...
Hmmm, this is only the 2nd spring for my very young Mountain Snow. Although it IS on the north side of a big blue fir, everything else in its vicinity has been above ground a week or (much) more. My On Stage is in a much sunnier spot, and showed its mettle a couple of days sooner. To tell the truth,...
- May 02, 2010 9:58 am
- Forum: Hosta Forum
- Topic: Do you ever just eliminate some hostas?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 954
Re: Do you ever just eliminate some hostas?
Oh yes, of course! With limited garden space, it's inevitable. I treat my neighbours to my castoffs; gave a Komodo Dragon and two Wide Brims to my neighbour, and we're both very happy, as they're outside his fence line, and I can see and enjoy them too. It sort of extends my own garden space (shhhhh...
- May 02, 2010 9:53 am
- Forum: Hosta Forum
- Topic: Last to come up...
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1015
Re: Last to come up...
Found one tiny pip of Mountain Snow just poking out of the ground yesterday, and that makes my garden officially awake!
- Apr 30, 2010 9:47 pm
- Forum: Hosta Forum
- Topic: Any Natural Slug Control Work?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2107
Re: Any Natural Slug Control Work?
Um. Yeah, I guess it is. Diatomaceous earth (aka cristoballite, aka amorphous silica) is listed as one of the ingredients on my bag of "swimming pool filter powder", the other being crystalline silica, aka, ordinary quartz sand. I think the sand is included to prevent accusations of false advertisin...
- Apr 30, 2010 8:04 am
- Forum: Hosta Forum
- Topic: Last to come up...
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1015
Re: Last to come up...
Hi, Ann! We MUST get together once everything unfurls! Loads of my OP seedlings are cropping up all over the place, including a wonderful little striped Spilt Milk baby. I found five tiny pips poking through the earth yesterday - On Stage is officially awake! Mountain Snow is still sleeping, though....
- Apr 29, 2010 1:11 pm
- Forum: Hosta Forum
- Topic: Last to come up...
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1015
Re: Last to come up...
My Mountain Snow & On Stage are still underground. Everything else is up - some, in the shadiest, coolest, darkest reaches of the garden still low and tightly furled, but neither of these come-latelies are in these locations. I'll be happy to see them awaken!
- Apr 27, 2010 1:02 pm
- Forum: Hosta Forum
- Topic: Any Natural Slug Control Work?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2107
Re: Any Natural Slug Control Work?
I use diatomite; I get it in 25-lb bags from a pool supply store. This is the best time of the year to apply it, when the hosta eyes are already above ground but the leaves not yet unfurled (mostly, in my garden). I put liberal amounts of it on and around the crown. Diatomite has strictly physical d...
- Dec 17, 2009 7:59 pm
- Forum: Hosta Forum
- Topic: Opinion on H. 'Aristocrat'
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1046
Re: Opinion on H. 'Aristocrat'
Aristocrat, tattered?! never. Are you sure you don't have Wide Brim or another of the lookalikes? Aristocrat is a cast iron plant, not the fastest or largest grower, but always gorgeous till the bitter end of summer, except for the occasional rabbit-predated leaf. Honestly, I'm as surprised as the r...
- Oct 26, 2009 3:17 pm
- Forum: Hosta Forum
- Topic: Sum and Substance fertile?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 834
Re: Sum and Substance fertile?
Another hand up for "yes, fertile". Mine sets seed easily and these have produced a number of interesting (very thick-leaved, not necessarily very large) seedlings. Give it a try!
- Oct 26, 2009 3:15 pm
- Forum: Hosta Forum
- Topic: Can anyone name this hosta
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1912
Re: Can anyone name this hosta
Fortunei Aurea is quite a striking albescent gold, with a light dusting of bloom on it, good corrugation, and relatively slow growth. It's definitely not a smallish green fast grower like your mystery "Hummies' Delight". Regretfully, I can't offer you a better name possibility.
- Sep 21, 2009 9:07 pm
- Forum: Hosta Forum
- Topic: Which are holding up well - which are going down early?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2019
Re: Which are holding up well - which are going down early?
Believe it or not, my whole garden is still looking darn good. I took a spin round it yesterday, and it seems that the shutting down is much postponed in comparison with previous years, probably thanks to our very wet and relatively cool July. Raspberry Sorbet & Plantaginea are still in bloom, as is...
- Sep 21, 2009 8:58 pm
- Forum: Hosta Forum
- Topic: Does anyone "trim" their hostas?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 844
Re: Does anyone "trim" their hostas?
As far as 'fessing up goes, I trim my hostas year-round. I have a scourge of rabbits in my neighbourhood, and they love to snack on young hosta leaves and later in the season on hosta blooms. So I do what I can to remove the leaves with big bites gouged out, and the chopped in half scapes. Many's an...