Hosta New Years Resolutions

hostasformez4

18 years ago

Happy New Year to all my Hosta Forum friends.

Has anyone else but me made Hosta resolutions for 2008?

I have so much replanting to do with perrenials that I hope not to ignore my hostas this spring.

(1) I resolve to take more pictures to share on the HF when cold weather hits.

(2) I resolve to find names for lost tag hostas.

(3) I resolve to move unhappy hostas to better areas of the garden.

(4) I resolve to finish my placement charts for each hosta bed and keep better records.

(5) I resolve to take pictures of my 'babies' with their new names as provided by hosta friends by the first of June if at all possible.

Those are my resoultions, what are yours?

Connie

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aahostas
18 years ago
Connie,
Those are all really good ones! If you don't mind I will adopt all of yours.
The only thing that I will add is that I will not order or buy any Hosta until I have a location and a pot in the ground for it. No more Hostas spending their first year in a gallon pot until I get around to planting it!

Denny
hostahaveum
18 years ago
Hi All ;Happy New Hosta Year!
Well mostly what Connie said..but
1)Get new bifocals so I can take good pix.
2)Start to post pix.
3)Better record keeping for bloom time.
4)Get 2 streaky breeders ..(F. Blue Genes on order)
5)Hopefully trade for first time.
6) Don't dig around eyes to "check" for spring growth too early:)
7)Don't bug dh by dragging him away from work ,3 times a day to see growth . Once each morning this spring should be enough:)
8) Try to avoid buying "look alike" or slug attracting hosta plants.
9) Don't get more plants than I can water w/ well water during droughts :(
10)Don't order any hosta unless I check Papus Losers List.~Dot
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sugarman
18 years ago
Not buying too many plants next year, and instead of collecting plants, I will start a big photo-project on hosta.

I'm a photographer with a passion for hosta, and will join both in 2008 & 2009.
I plan photographing over 1000 hosta cultivars under controlled light conditions over the next two years (about 10 minutes of work for every plant).

And, start breeding, I have two plants in mind, so starting next year working on it... I have the genetic material tkat could get me there...I'll see next year if I have the luck :D

Tom

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jbranch
18 years ago
In 2008 I will:

Start some hosta from seed
Order more hostas online
Do a better job of protecting my potted hostas during winter.
hosta_freak
18 years ago
One thing I do all the time like many of you is,pull fallen leaves from around the hostas,to see the emerging eyes.Every time I have done this,my early emerging hostas such as montana Aureomarginata,Sagae,and Plantaginea,always get zapped by late freezes. This year I am leaving the leaves in the garden until the new eyes protrude above the leaves,to protect them longer. I don't have a big problem with slugs,so that will be OK. Phil