my new hostas...and the new hosta garden

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Canadian-hosta-girl
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my new hostas...and the new hosta garden

Post by Canadian-hosta-girl »

Hi All , here are pictures of some of my new hostas and the new hosta garden we did this weekend , dont need to tell you me and my husband are burned out at both end lol , lots of work but will be well worth the enjoyement later on....

the first potted ones are formal attire , big daddy, june and summer breeze , their mature divisions from someone garden
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these are some i bought from a nursery for 9.99$ and 12$ wide brim , halcyon , elisabeth(after my daugther whom is going to be 5 soon)
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and these below are my order from Northern grown perrenials that have arrived last friday , jurassic park , shadowfax , streets of gold , glad rags , nigescens, elatior , tenryu , aspen gold , queen of the seas, ryan's big one, savanah supreme, parhelion,unforgetable , and Rod sent me as bonus plants 2 of his own intros pleasure seeker and jotuheim so i was very pleased :)
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this is jurassic park
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and this is tenryu
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also bought at my fav nursery a uge pineapple upside down , earth angel , olive branch , mount tom , ground master ......still a few more on order to come ;) :)

And here are the before and after of the new garden bed

before ....
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hubby and daugther we took out 2 of those uge maple tree stump, they wore a pain to take out took many hours just doing that....

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yes thats me on the tractor ....
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and finally the after
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Post by LucyGoose »

Wow!! Your new bed looks great and for me to wish to have that much room!! Cool!! Man, great looking roots there, and nice choices...... :P
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Post by addieotto »

Great job! Looks like a lot of work. I've gotta get me one of those tractors!!! That's got to be fun. :D
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Post by JaneG »

Oh Wow! That's lookin' great! You made an amazing change in record time. Looks like Elisabeth is having fun, too! :D
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Post by newB »

Great Job! I am so envious!!! Look at all that space. I am sure you will fill it up in no time. It looks like you got a good start with some great plants!

I will have to look for Elizabeth, my youngest daughters name is Elizabeth as well (she is 14) She went with me to Hallsons on Mothers Day. She would be thrilled to know that there is a Hosta with her name.

Good Luck with your garden, keep up the good work.
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Post by newtohosta-no more »

What a beautiful garden that will be. I'd love to see more pics, once you've got it all planted! You sure did get some wonderful hostas! And the potted ones had so many eyes!!! :D
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Post by Canadian-hosta-girl »

thanks everyone, we rented the tractor for the weekend , my husband would love to own one but those are too much $ for us to buy one,it is on our wish list if we win the lottery hehehehe, and beside we get a good deal on the rental for 3 days so thats the good thing.

yes my daugther Elizabeth loves to ride that tractor and she loves to help out , their wore many worms to save from daddy and mommy shovel over the weekend :roll: :lol: (hope she still helps out when she gets 15 :lol: :lol: ) i was an outdoors /nature kid , always loved to do things outside with nature and animals so i am hoping she will too ...hey gotta have someone care for all those plants the day i am not able or there anymore :wink:

it was actually a joke my husband said to me that got me on the tractor , it was 2 pm i had been racking horse manure and soil since 9 am and i couldnt feel my hands anymore lol so my husband said i'll do it he said go get the soil and laughed well i sat on the tractor and sad ok and left with it :lol: took 2 min to figure out how that thing works , was fun too....we are very happy with our work and the way it looks , we didnt think we could do it in just the weekend just being the 2 of us.

as for hosta Elizabeth anyone as a picture of it as a mature plant , the hosta library pic is not really a good reference and would like to see and know how big that one gets ...

i'll post more pic when the rest of the hostas come in.
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Post by caliloo »

WOW! Those are great looking hostas and I covet your fluffly loamy soil in that new bed. It is a hosta dream!

Post lots more photos as the season progresses please!

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Post by baja220 »

Wow :eek: It's gonna be beautiful!!! Please keep us updated! You guys did an awesome job!!
And I'm soooooo jealous of your Shadowfax!!
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Post by mum2knm »

That's going to look amazing! Can't wait to see the bed when it's finished!
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Post by eastwood2007 »

Wow! Nice new hosta bed! And nice new hostas to put in there!

Now we really can see how Jurassic Park got its name!

TFS!
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Post by bengal »

Color me impressed! And envious -- you have a boatload of space to fill. (Lucky you :lol: ) I hope you do continue to post pics over this season....we all want to watch your garden unfold. And I thank you for reminding me about Northern Grown Perennials, too! I ordered daylilies from Rod maybe four years ago; the plants were really fine. I see I need to look at his hosta offerings as well.

Thumbs up on your work! :)
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Post by renaldo75 »

You've sure got a lot of nice hostas to plant in your new garden!! :D It will look wonderful in a couple of years - if it takes that long.
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Post by Nathalie23 »

Wow! You have a lot of eyes!!!! and roots!!!! My daughter is like yours, she love to take the worm I found :wink:
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Post by pauhaus »

Wow, now that's progress. Great job! Keep us posted with pics as you progress with your plantings. It's going to be beautiful. :cool: :cool:
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Post by Canadian-hosta-girl »

thanks for all the nice words everyone .....when all the ordered hostas get here i will try to figure out who goes where and will post updated pic for sure :D
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Post by Arlene »

Wow! That new garden is going to be beautiful! Love your hosta choices . . . looking forward to an update photo every month!
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here are some pic of all the hostas sitting in the garage driveway waiting to be planted in the new hosta garden

still waiting on some orders about 25 more hostas to come and will be able to start arranging them , i have no clue how i will arrange them and i do not want to move them too often once in place


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my weekend deals, a hosta and daylilies garden is closing down and their selling everything , wish i had known sooner i missed out on some good ones but i ended up with a few that wore a good price like elvis lives 10$ , fortunei albo picta 20$ , carnival 10$ , super nova 5$ (got 2 eyes because the day before they divided the big mature clump ARGGGGGGGGGGGH, mountain snow 10$ ,a big hosta that was supose to be garden party but i doubt it unless it does a dramatic color change 10$ ,dance with me a 10$ et mildred seaver a 5$ et 2 UGE golden tiara at 5$ each
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here you see the bare root hosta from northern grown that are starting to open up
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Post by Pandora »

Wow! I guess I can close my mouth now. :lol: The more pictures I saw ... the wowee-er it got.

Great job. Beautiful hostas. No one will believe the transformation in one summer.
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