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Jeroen
Do you tip the pots on their sides, or put on leaves for mulch? Seems to easy just to leave them set for the whole winter!
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I leave them out side like that,.......and they survive...if they keep wet!!!

Some time I even give the water in some dry moment in autumn or winter...you may not let them dry out in the winter!!!
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Post by eastwood2007 »

Thanks, Jeroen! If I am correct in my celsius vs. fahrenheit temps, -5 to -15 c. is 27 to 17 degrees f. Is that correct? Would that be about a zone 7 here in the states? Anyone?

Reason I ask is I have alot of hostas in pots and would like to keep them that way, and maybe add more in pots. I think if I let them go dormant naturally then move them to a cold area of the greenhouse for the rest of the winter, that would be about Jeroen's temps. Maybe? We can get to -10 f. here on occasion.
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Post by eastwood2007 »

oops, I was posting at the same time. Yes, there is a real debate whether to keep them bone dry or to water. I watered mine about once a month last year...doing the moving to the greenhouse thing...and they did beautifully. I watered my beds monthly also if we didn't get rain. My beds drain too well and they get really too dry it seems if I don't....but then I learned hosta are not like other perennials.... :-?

Yours just look beautiful, Jeroen. I would like to see a pic as they are emerging in the spring. I'll bet that is an awesome sight! :D
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Post by VThosta/daylilylover »

-5 C = 23 F
-15 C = 5 F
C to F you multiply by 9/5 then add 32
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Yeps a zone 8 in general... I am a bit colder... and hostas do fine in frozen pots here.. even if they swimed and the water froze

Jeroen..what did you get ????????
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Jeroen..what did you get ????????
What do you mean.... :???: :???: :???:
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Post by thy »

Darn it.. you know what I meen,
...My wife saw me with all the new hosta's and .....
So pleeeease at least a list .... :wink:

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Post by Wild Dog »

Reason I ask is I have alot of hostas in pots and would like to keep them that way, and maybe add more in pots. I think if I let them go dormant naturally then move them to a cold area of the greenhouse for the rest of the winter, that would be about Jeroen's temps. Maybe? We can get to -10 f. here on occasion.
Charla
Don't trouble yourself about the cold. Hosta in pots have 2 problems and cold isn't one of them.

1 emerging early and facing freezes
2 the freeze thaw because it is easy for moisture to collect on the surface of the soil go through the freeze thaw cycle.

Put some form of mulch on/in the pots.
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ok Thy....here they are...

here a some of the plants I took home.....I took about 80 plants with me

Of course you need the right papers to take them home....

streaked;
Cajun Sunrise (TC)
Breeder’s Choice (OS)
Blue Sued Shoes (TC )
Rhinestone Cowboy (TC )
Loleta Powel (OS)
Flash Dance (OS)
Midnight Storm (TC)

Dark Nebula (OS )
Cirrus Clouds (TC
Powered by Bob (OS)
DB seedling (Rod Kuenster) (OS)
Kiwi Highlights
Streaked Stuart Ash (OS)
Dorset Clown (OS)
Splashed Leather (TC)

Mikawa-no-Yuki (streaked) (OS)

Foxy Doxy (OS)
Lakeside Mom

the rest:
Nutty Professor (TC)
Made You Look
Katana (OS)
H. longipes (Nagata Prefecture)
From Jim Hawes (OS)

Great Plains (OS)
Stormy Weather (OS)
Old Coot (OS)
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Post by thy »

Madre Mia

You do not have the space for them

I lack space, but compared to you,... I have a lot...so send them my way and I look for them... when you find the space, I will gladly send back an eye

:o :o :o

Wil use hours to look them up...
You have no space
ou have no spac
u have no spa
have no sp
ave no s

Now you go to the posrt office- add all of them in a box and send them to Pia Thy

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Post by thy »

:-?

How to do it a triangle

Need it to work

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hello Thy....

I told you before you missed alot in Hosta Valley last summer when you went to Holland and Belgium.

You didn't came by to my place....??? :( :( :( :(
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Post by thy »

I know Jeroen.... SAD;SAD;SAD :oops:

But, you never replied to my e-mail and later I found out, the day i could have been there, you were occupied by other Danes

Do it help just a little ...I promise, next time.... Down on my knees here :eek:

Hey.. why not come to Denmark :wink: kids and wife :D

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Sorry Thy.....i never did get your email with the plans to come to Holland/belgium.....I heard it after the trip by seeing the pictures on Hallsons!!!

BTW you could have come with the Danes.....they where als hosta people from the Danish Hosta society at Hosta Valley.....are you also member of that Danish Hosta society, Thy?????
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Post by thy »

Thought of sending one more mail, but never got it done :cry:


Member of the American Hosta Society, but not the Danish :wink:

What a list :cool:

:D Pia
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You shoot have sent that another mail......

then we could have met... :D :D :D :D

maybe in the future.
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