Hallson Gardens

What an interesting thread! Now that my hostas have emerged I can actually talk to the subject. My Rainforest Sunrise and Tropical Storm are doing quite well. OTOH, Zounds, Sunpower,and Paradise Island are NOT doing very well. In between rain I got out and snapped a photo of both Tropical Storm and ...

Back from 4 days in Michigan with a tired body but NEW plants. My friend brought home TWENTY plants whilst I managed to control myself, only buying TEN. Among my purchases were 5 hostas!!!! Kiwi Fully Monty which Chris was nice enough to dig up for me :D , Electrocution, Red Hot Flash, Great Arrival...

Funny you bring up this hosta. A fellow hostaholic and I were discussing this hosta today. The old timers like sugar and spice and fragrant bouquet seem to be overlooked lately in favor of some of the newer varieties. Mine are in full bloom now and the fragrance is wondeful!
Short Shadows

My car is packed, four dogs are ready. Tomorrow morning well before daylight I will venture to Cement City, MI. Some think it is to accept a judging assignment for the dachshund club at the beagle grounds in Cement City. Little do they know it is to visit the FABULOUS HALLSON GARDENS!!!. The venture...

I do not have Marachino Cheery but do have Eye Declare..not very tolerant at all

Gosh,
Don't buy everything!!! My yearly pilgrimage to Cement City for our fall field trial(at the Beagle grounds) is coming up in a couple of weeks and I intend to buy, buy, buy.
Short Shadows

Stiletto is such a lovely Hosta. I think it is underated!

Mini: Chartruese Wiggles
Small
Med: Fire Island
Large: Designer Genes /Sunpower

Small: Hadspen Blue(can I vote for it again?)
Med: Blue Haired Lady/ Pacific Blue Edger
Large: Blue Angel

Here it goes
Small: Cody
Med: Valentine Lace Emerald Necklace
Large: Drinking Gourd
EX Bubba

To reply to Bill's comment..... I have lived out in the country for about 16 years. I have had pocket gopher problems on and off over that time and have had little success in controlling them. I almost cut my fingers off with the traps, the smoke bombs are worthless, poison bait not effective. Soooo...

When it comes to evening predators I have a GREAT solution. The product NITE GUARD really does work. It even works on deer. It is a blinking red light that runs during the night. It works on birds of prey as well as mammals like coyotes, fox, deer. A friend of mine has been using it all season and t...

I did not know I would create such a diversity of opinions. I do not advocate killing living creatures and like the thought of a symbiotic relationship with nature. I can tolerate rabbits, deer, chippies having a meal on my plants without too much distress.(I've even been known to feed them in the w...

This means WAR! I came home one day last week to find my Honeybells missing, yes MISSING. There were 3 leaves left from the thriving plant laying in the soil. Two days later .....Black Hills....GONE! roots, leaves...gone! This is the work of a pocket gopher. Earlier this month my pom pom pine tree u...

The larger leaves are close to 6 inches long. The petioles are red. Any ideas would be appreciated This plant was split from a larger clump. Planned to take more images but my camera battery was done!

UH3 looks like a Rupifraga

The devil made me do it...................

I was totally taken in by my big box store sale today and I bought a hosta knowing that it may be infected. Ok, The hosta was Frozen Margarita..... I have not see this hosta before so I was interested, it looked healthy.... Near this hostas was a couple of hostas that looked suspect. I planted the h...

Awesome find! Would love to check it out but it may be a bit of a drive for me

You certainly could do a 'food' theme:
Guacamole
torilla chip
L Cupcake
Maui Buttercups
Drinking Gourd
Sugar and Spice
Peanut
Split Milk
Twist of Lime