Hallson Gardens

I just noticed the date of the last post. I'm hoping to see more recent images one day.

OMG your garden is wonderful.

Great idea. I've seen it once before, on a fence, in a garden. Yours looks magical!

Love your garden. Insanity is good.

I've grown five Sugar Daddy hostas for about 8 years. Yes, they grow slow. But that's not their problem. They come up beautiful in the early spring, with wide yellow margins. As soon as the leaves fully unfurl and spread out, the yellow margins begin to turn soft and limp and brown. In about two wee...

This year's follow-up: The affected plants recovered, slowly, last season. The group that was damaged the most is a large wave of Lancifolia (13 large, mature clumps). I have several waves of lancifolia on the hill behind my house, along with several hundred other hostas and companion plants. This y...

Chris?
Inquiring minds want to know.

Nice article, and you even sent readers to the wayback machine. Love it.
Thanks.

Good luck with them.

Another whoops; another miss-post.

Follow-up:
Walters Gardens replied. They do not monitor the wholesale growers who buy their baby hostas.
There are just too many growers. I'll quarantine the Wheee! plants that I bought.

If the tag and pot say Proven Winners, does that mean clean tissue culture specimens originated with Proven Winners but were sent to growers, who might or might not have been careful? Or does it mean Proven Winners grew each plant at a Proven Winner site, then sent them to the nurseries? It looks li...

Whoops, great advice, but I just bought two today from a local nursery.

whoops, miss-post.

Today I did something I promised myself I'd never do. I bought two "Wheee!" hostas from a nursery that has been selling HVX-infected hostas. I bought them because they were labelled "Proven Winners" in the hope that the label means the growers are held to a high standard and that they must check for...

Just looked it up.
Yep, that's it.

Must have, must have. Got suggestions on where to get a (not-tiny) version of this plant?
I'm in the Boston area.

Follow-up: Two winters ago I left the hostas in pots outside through the winter. They suffered. Some died, others shrank. I think this happened in the spring when the snow cover on the pots melted, then froze, then melted, then froze, then melted, then ... well, you get the idea. The following winte...

Follow-up: The frost-bitten,rotted hostas have survived, but in an altered state. They shrank; I suspect the roots shriveled up when the leaves got gooey and dropped off. The leaves that survived got attacked by brown spot. I waited and watched, and chose not to spray. More leaves fell off from the ...

Does anyone know what this magnificent specimen is? I've never seen a twirly hosta with such large, dense, stiff leaves. Their shape is unexpected. They have very yellow rims, with yellowish-green centers. (The colors on my computer screen do not exactly match the actual colors; I'm not sure what ot...

Oh, I see Chris you have answered. I don't get notified in my email about replies; I'll see if that's an option in this forum. Since this all started to happen, I've checked out the plants every few days. The gooey rotten parts simply dried out and I stopped worrying. Then I noticed an entire wave o...