Hi Donnie! So glad you decided to graduate from lurking to posting! We've all been *newbies* at one time, you know!!!
The great thing about hosta (at least one of the great things) is that there's not a lot to know, in order to know a lot
about them!!! Works for me!!!

Keep posting, and we'd love to see some photos from your part of this wide wonderful world! Scotland sounds like
a virtual hosta-heaven!! Do many folks have hosta in your area?

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Hi Donnie and (I can't resist) it's Bonny to have you here.....Welcome!!!

I found this forum a few years ago and have been learning from it ever since, great people.....I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. By the way you just posted your first tip - crushed sea shells to decimate slugs - good one.

June

Welcome Donnie! Glad you decided to join in.

You could always add some small dishes of beer around the hostas to act as slug bait.......you do have beer in Scotland don't you?

Teresa

Welcome!

Live on an island do you? You have to really travel to find hosta! Not many of us have to hop in a boat to get our next hosta.

Pictures would be wonderful.

Connie

Welcome Donnie! Glad you've introduced yourself, we love adding to our hosta-aholic anonymous group. Let me stand-up with you and say, "hi, I'm Donna and I'm a hosta-holic". Again, welcome! LOL!

Donna

Thank you all for the welcome.
Quite a few people here have hostas, but mainly all have the same few varieties. I buy mainly 'mail order', or when I visit the Scottish Mainland I search out the garden centres.
Yes Teresa, we do have beer in Scotland lol. I find that the slugs actually prefer the darker beers! (We also have whiskey in Scotland..... affectionately known as 'electric soup' lol
Regards
Donnie

ho donnie ...

this is the conversation forum for hosta...

real hosta talk goes on over on the DISCUSSION side ... and don't miss the gallery ...

welcome!!!

ken

Here is a link that might be useful: discussions

Welcome donnie. Just wait until you start dreaming about expansions for your hosta garden, it's all part of the sickness you know. But the good news is that it's all great fun. You'll enjoy the forum. I've learned SO much from the people here. We love pictures so be sure to post some pictures of your growing hosta addiction!

Welcome. I can't get over your highest temperature--seventy degrees. Wow, hosta paradise. You will find yourself going out at night with a flashlight killing slugs. Looking forward to seeing your pictures.
Mary

Thank you Mary and flowers,
Lord...Mary, you cant imagine the miles that i have walked (in small circles) looking for slugs!! I never swore til I started growing hostas lol. Yip 70 degrees was an all time record lol. I read on the forum about people having temps of 90 and more!! Geez, I couldnt cope with that! 60 degrees here, and I am inside the house feeling sorry for myself.
Donnie

Donnie, I am with you on the slugs. I have a Green Sheen that looks like lace this summer. It is enough to make a saint swear! Enjoy your nice weather.
Mary

Donnie, Welcome to the forums. All the money you save by not having to have air conditioning you can spend on Hostas! It was 90 here today. But at least we had some rain. I don't think you lack for rain where you are either do you? It would be interesting to see some pictures from your part of the world.

Hi Maid, No, we certainly dont lack rain !! I will certainly post some pics, when my hosta's get to a decent size. Most are just young plants and of no real size at all. Makes me so envious, when I see some of the pics posted by others. Why oh why didnt I discover Hostas years ago!!

Donnie

What a wonderful world!!! A click and you are writing to new friends on an island near Scotland!
Check out the Gallery as I posted pictures of a few other of us hosta forum members from a trip I took yesterday. You will be able to find faces to put with our forum names. I'm the graying lady in the multi striped shirt!

Connie (Northwestern Illinois USA)

Glad that you have joined us here on Garden Web. We all help each other. WELCOME!

Papou (from Canada)

Hi Papou,
What part of Canada are you from. Believe it or not, my Great great Grandmother was a Cree Indian from the Sturgeon Lake area

Donnie

Welcome on board donnie, I am new too, hope you enjoy this forum as much as I do. I can not complain about slugs , I haven't had any on my hostas yet. But we do get Japanese beetles on the morning glories here, nothing to cry over as they are annuls that reseed themselves anyway. Good luck w/ getting rid of yours . Dot-South NJ USA " The Garden State "