Hallson Gardens

Ann , Were you on the forum when we had the threads about dressing in vole suits to rob Hank & Jim's garden & the other one about the albomarginata lookalike. I can't believe it I can't remember its name! I keep wanting to say shade fanfare but that's not right . Somebody save me! What was that name...

Hi Pia,
I don't know about the nasteurtum quote, but I think of you and the rest of the forum regulars all the time.
Does anybody talk about anything else on the forum now? Everytime I peek in all I see are pictures of the day kind of thing.
Ellen

Hi Ann I hope I'll feel like gardening this spring but so far I don't feel like doing much. I'm hoping to get to come to the Hallsons gathering this year though. Sorry about your snow. We've only had 1 maybe 6 inch snow storm & nothing else so far. Last year we had snow coverage almost all winter lo...

Hi everybody! I was searching for pineapple upside down cake and came across this real old post. I can't believe I never answered. We had a lot of computer issues over the past few years so I just wasn't able to get on the forum again. Sure missed everybody though. Now I have a smartphone I can acce...

My Guardian Angel has the same coloring as Hanks all season long, and is probably 4 feet wide. It is the most beautiful hosta I have so I bought a second 1 to plant someplace else. I had read about it fading and mine never did so I wondered about that. I just assumed it was happy now because I had m...

Well I don't know what it means but if Lucy Goosey, Thy and Linda P like it then I do too. Whoo hoo con-grat-u-lay-shuns Hallson Flower God Guys!

Hi everybody!

FreakyCola here. I've been away a long time but now I want to talk hostas! Anybody wanna join me?

Yes Laura, I can hardly wait to get this baby into the garden! It's supposed to be a girl, so I hope she'll want to help more than her daddy. All he remembers is the time I turned around with a rosebush in my hand, not knowing he was behind me & scratched his neck. Oh you would have thought I'd slic...

Oh How I've missed you guys! Jim, where's the stoned cola comments? Pia & Jim, you guys are toooooooo funny!

Hi everybody! I'm BAAAAAAK! I noticed on the Walmart shelf there is a Krylon spray paint called "Hosta Leaf" Isn't that cool? It's a bland green, but still. :D Remember me talking about my son? Well, he's been living with a girl over a year now & they're going to have a baby in about a week! I'm gon...

Thanks Chris, I guess I better get it from you!

I saw one of these at a nursery & passed since I hadn't heard of it before. When I looked it up I wished I'd bought it, but the ones I saw all had white edges, not yellow as the Hosta Encyclopedia & Hosta Library show. Does anyone know if they have white edges when young maybe, or were they just ano...

I noticed Chris is advertising other hosta sellers at the top of the page now. So I checked out the one called Buy Perennials which said they had unusual hostas. Wow, I was really surprized to see the usual suspects like Sum & Substance, Wide Brim, Striptease & others with price tags of hundreds of ...

Hi Renaldo! This year I had an awful time with slugs. Every time I put Bugetta out more & more would appear so they must think that stuff is candy! I've always used Bugetta & it controlled them so I don't know what happened this year. Every once in a while I get 10 or 15 of those great big fat ones ...

Pia, Do you have an answer for Tigger? That's scarey thinking it could go through the seeds.
Thanks for everyones thoughts!
Ellen

Thanks Chris! Once again you amaze me with your knowledge & willingness to share with us. That's really interesting to know that the roots will grow better if divided in July & August. Now I see why some I divided late last year probably died, they didn't have enough roots left to last through the w...

Has anyone ever checked out how long it takes a hosta to grow roots after you cut them apart with a knife? I mean from the place where you sliced it. Just wondering. I never really dug one up to see.
Ellen

Hi and welcome to the forum! Here's what you get for your trees: "Bayer Tree & Shrub Protect & Feed" in a blue bottle. Costs about $18 & I had to use 3 bottles so it's an expensive treatment, but boy does it work! I've seen bigger bottles of it a little cheaper at Lowes or Menards but I'd rather buy...

Our city makes compost out of leaves mostly & for a long time that's what I used. The hostas seemed to thrive. Then someone here told me I shouldn't use plain compost. I don't know why. Anyone know? So I started making my own mix. I start with Expert Gardener potting mix, add perlite & peat and this...

Mine went out today somewhere east of me! Course, if I was looking south, then west would be east of me, so who knows where it's going????? The hostas almost didn't make it into the box! Since I haven't done a secret trade for a long time I had forgotten how much my big ole yeller cat, Bubber, LOVES...