Hallson Gardens

I think it's a Virginian tiger moth caterpillar (Spilosoma virginica).

You probably shouldn't touch it - some of those hairy caterpillars (many of them? most?) are stinging caterpillars. The spines can cause irritation, sometimes intense.

That's an easy one: Love!

You know that expression, "All things come to he who waits"? Well, I waited (for good shipping weather), and maybe all things didn't come, but some things came - and such wonderful, beautiful things they were. Lovely hostas from Lelan aka ZZTOPSOIL. I have to say that, because I've been posting & vi...

Many, many apologies! I meant "Ed" our resident expert. :oops: Very hard to think when cat jumps up on desk and starts weaving back & forth in front of monitor and, when that doesn't get my attention, in front of keyboard (stepping on a key here & there just in case I haven't noticed. :lol:) So sorr...

Wow, Ed, what did you do? Channel Brother Charles?

Gorgeous color! There it is: the Reckamp glow! (We need a "thumbs up" emoticon!)

Clarification of my first sentence in my other post - "on your own property" - I meant that the idea is you're not shipping or leaving plants lying around here for days on end. That you'll have a short (time and distance) move. Sorry for choppy sentences but cat is standing in front of monitor. :lol:

You're moving these plants from one bed to another on your own property? Then I'll respectfully disagree with Viktoria - I don't see any need to cut back the foliage. Just dig up the entire mass, roots and soil and haul to the new bed. Or yes, you can split the clumps into smaller pieces if that wil...

I have read that squirrels will dig in and around newly planted areas - plants, bulbs, whatever. I've seen them do it here. Probably what's going on at your place.

Would I be correct in assuming that good culture affects the creation of new eyes? I have a Darwinian approach to my garden -- large parts of it get little to no watering apart from whatever rain brings. :lol: I've been aware that the increase in number of eyes on my hostas seems pretty slow. Not a ...

I'm so glad you liked the hostas, Jo! Your hosta list was so long that I was afraid I wouldn't have a single thing that you could possibly want. (I'm going through the garden: "Nope, she's got that. Nope, she's got that one, too....and that one... and that one.... :lol:) Add in the fact that, while ...

How about try making her an indoor cat.... losing weight = not good. Will you be taking her to the vet? She might have worms, or worse. And regardless of indoor vs. outdoor, needs shots. Rabies shots a must. Not only that, she needs to be fixed, if it hasn't already been done. Yeah, I'd bring her in...

Oh for goodness sake! Not again.

I. Do. Not. Believe. It.

This girl finds more sports than a dalmatian has spots. Sheesh.

Mine's in the mail....finally! I'd planned to get it out last Monday but somehow the day got away from me. :lol: On Tuesday I wasn't home...nor on Wednesday. Gone all day yesterday, too....Today, at last I.... oh heck. Let's just cut to the chase here :lol: :lol: :lol: Am I the last one to get my bo...

I love it. As you said, it looks as good as, even better than, what the catalog showed. Mine's in a pot, but it's happy and healthy. Growing very well.... I've seen it praised highly on another forum. Like us, the poster thought the color better than the catalog image. Plus all that edge business go...

Gee, I really, really like that one!

Those pictures look as good to me the second time around as when I first saw them!

No, I wouldn't say bengal knows her stuff. It's what I've read, however. And, since trees are expensive, I follow the "better safe than sorry" way of thinking. I am not sure where exactly I read about trees and the danger that mounding soil poses, but I have the feeling that it may have been in a ga...

Paris, c'est tres chic. :D Speaking of Terra Nova, we were up in Ottsville Saturday. Stopped to get directions at a perennial place - they were having an event, and the guest speaker had just finished giving his talk. It was Dan Heims. I missed it. :cry: By only a few minutes apparently. :cry: :cry:...

Whoa! I had no idea they're making hostas as big as cows these days! What ever will they think up next?

OK, I posted a hosta wish list. I have zero idea how to make it show up in my posts. But maybe that's OK - it's so long and probably so unrealistic that it's best if no one ever actually looks at it.