A back bed...

South side bed...

'Fried Bananas'

'Invincible', looking anything but...

'Big Daddy'

'Sum and Substance'

'Spartacus'

'Olive Bailey Langdon'

Gosh Don, when these guys leap, your yard is going to be fantabulous! Can you call them all by name? I notice you don't have name tags!
(Great Arrival sure is a pretty little thing!)
Jan

'Luna Moth'

Thanks for looking!

Don B.

Thanks, Jan. And yes, I can ID 'em visually (HOW I can do that, I've no idea)! :)

Don B.

'Lakeside Kaleidoscope'

Another of 'Big Daddy'

'Atlantis' being a very late riser. That's OK, it means no frostbitten leaves!

'Guardian Angel'

'Lakeside Roy El'

'Sum Cup-o-Joe'

'Fragrant Blue'

'Mister Watson'

'Francee'

'Paul's Glory'

'Diamond Tiara'

'Silk Kimono' still in the pot I started it in.

Took a lot of pics today...Gotta stock up for the Hosta Alphabet ; P Hope they are visually pleasing...

Cheers all,
Don B.

Very nice selection you have there! I love the Great Arrival and Spartacus. It will be fun to watch them all grow up!

Linda

Lots of nice looking plants. I'm glad to see so many made it through your harsh weather looking pretty good. I have Silk Kimono and like the wavy edges. And your pic reminded me why I want Lakeside Kaleidoscope.

Everytime Iook at someones new garden,I think back to when my garden looked like that. The only difference was,I added plants one,or two at a time,and you put yours in all at once. It will take quite awhile before you see the results,as they have a long ways to go. Nice job,however,and you have more exotic plants than I! I have'all the usual suspects',and only a few exotic ones. Keep up the good work! Phil

How about a pic of the whole garden? Love your hosta.

How could I forget 'Whirlwind'...Shame on me :)

Don B.

Thanks, everyone...My 'gardens' are more like a few beds scattered around the backyard (one in front), and because I can't get more than one bed in a shot at once, I get closeups. Most of my hosta are still pretty small, and the full bed shots look kinda dumb as a result...I'll post a few, but most I reject...I DO have a secluded bed on the north side of my house that I'm almost up to speed on, and the fact that it's a tiered hill will make it camera-friendly, even with my cr*ppy photog skills...But thanks, hostahosta!

Phil- Thank you sir! From what I've seen of your beautiful 'Hosta Vista' gardens, I doubly appreciate your compliments on my little planting spots. Yep, a long way to grow for the plants, but after seeing progress from just last season on a number of my plants, I know it'll be worth the wait, and I'll appreciate them more each year.

TropicLover and Sandyslopes- How did YOUR plants do over this weird, long winter next door in Utah? Well, I hope they came out OK, relatively speaking. That warm/freeze/warm/freeze stuff got old quickly.

Regards,
Don B.

Don, my worst damaged hosta was Victory. This would have had a leap year. I pulled off mush today trying to free some new growth. It's a big mess.

But I do have a lot that weren't damaged at all. What's weird is the ones damaged a year or so ago by frost were fine this year. And other ones that were damaged this year weren't touched in the past. It's hard to know which few to cover up when it's so unpredictable like that. But when things are outside, stuff happens, lol.

I'm glad to see you have so many that look so good. Your photos are inspiring me to get out there and take some pics!