"Black Satin" versus Lakeside Black Satin

ckp · Post by **ckp** » Oct 05, 2007 12:39 pm

When I looked up Black Mountain in the H. Library I came across "Black Satin". Does anyone have it? Can you compare it to Lakeside Black satin? I have LBS and have had nothing but trouble with it. I keep moving it around( part shade full shade, and everything in between.)

When my daughter's cat died LBS was to be a memorial to him, if BS(he,he) is a better grower I could replace LBS with it.
Charlene

MollyD · Post by **MollyD** » Oct 10, 2007 9:01 pm

Hello Charlene,

I got LBS this past June. Nothing but a pain! It grew to a massive (NOT) 3.5" tall this summer. When I complained to the seller he said not to worry it would grow. I wrote to Mary Chastain who said it should be bigger and that there was a problem with the plant I got. I suspect a bad batch of TC LBS is the problem but no way to prove it.
I'm not familiar with the other plant you mentioned.

MollyD

eastwood2007 · Post by **eastwood2007** » Oct 10, 2007 11:47 pm

I've heard lots of folks with issues with LS Black Satin. Mine did nothing last year (its 2nd year here), less this year, then got frozen to the grownd. Was 3 in. tall with 2 small eyes. I noticed the crown seemed a little high so put some more soil around it. Pop...another eye and 4 more leaves. Hoping for better next year....

MollyD · Post by **MollyD** » Oct 11, 2007 10:50 am

Charla is it any taller? I need glasses to see mine. I should say my two since in the process of moving it looking for a better location it separated into two plants. Neither is showing any improvement. I'll be very surprised to see them show up next year.

MollyD

eastwood2007 · Post by **eastwood2007** » Oct 11, 2007 11:26 am

Hi, Molly!

Here's a pic of mine I took today. Sorry for the bad quality. The new eye is the top one. It is only about 3" tall, but is 3 eyes now. Most of my hostas, after being frozen back to the ground this spring, look like babies again. It was about 10" tall when I got it. I am hopeful.

This hosta gets very little direct light. But you can see it hasn't even started going dormant yet. Again, hopeful...

MollyD · Post by **MollyD** » Oct 11, 2007 1:08 pm

Yours looks much better than mine Charla! I've never seen it at 10" !! If it dies I doubt I'll look to replace it.

MollyD