Even if just for bees, humming birds, and butterflies, I leave 'em until the snow. Besides, now that the HVX folk say it's not likely to spread it during late season dormancy, yet another reason to do it when 'it's all over'.

Besides, some of them are fragrant!

HH

Even if just for bees, humming birds, and butterflies, I leave 'em until the snow. Besides, now that the HVX folk say it's not likely to spread it during late season dormancy, yet another reason to do it when 'it's all over'.

Besides, some of them are fragrant!

HH

Even if just for bees, humming birds, and butterflies, I leave 'em until the snow. Besides, now that the HVX folk say it's not likely to spread it during late season dormancy, yet another reason to do it when 'it's all over'.

Besides, some of them are fragrant!

HH

I'm a cutter.
Gayle

Depends...if they are all similar I will usually leave them...ie I have a border in the front of golden tiara, since the scapes and flowers are all the same I will leave them. If it is a mixed bed of different types then I will probably cut.

I grow them as much for the flowers as the leaves! I don't cut them! I wouldn't want to miss out on those beautiful double Aphrodite flowers, or the big fragrant lily size plantaganea, or the double Fuji Botan, or the pretty white
Snowflake, or the raspberry purple of Raspberry Sorbet, and Raspberry Sundae....or the closed flowers of Clausa, or any number of the dozens of lovely blooms. The flowers are half the fun!

I'm a cutter too, except for the Mouse family that has cute short scapes with tight little flowers.

-Babka

I leave them. The first hostas in my gardens were introduced to add the blue/purple tones to the daylily garden. Then I learned to love the fragrant blossoms. But a friend who visited yesterday always cuts hers, too. To each his/her own. Nance

The only ones I cut are the undulata ringing one oak tree...
i love the deep purple of Sweet Home Chicago and the black scapes on squash casserole, the big white blossoms of guacamole.....and even the tall gangly scapes of Krossa Regal.

I enjoy the hosta bloom -

Also I leave the scapes, less cutting and possibly spreading hvx.

Paul

I leave them - the hummingbirds, bees and butterflies love to visit them. I cut them after they're done blooming, using three pair of rotating shears so I can clean and soak in Lysol between plants to avoid disease contamination. Takes awhile but I also weed and cleanup as I go.

The flowers are the fun part of this game. That's where you play the role of hosta artist by pollinating.

The scapes are useful to show precisely where the hosta is next spring.

I let everything bloom. I used to cut the scapes off after the bloom but I don't even do that anymore. Since I learned about HVX I don't cut anything anymore let alone go from plant to plant cutting. It is said that HVX isn't transmitted after the plant blooms but I am not taking any chances since we know very little about HVX right now. I leave the scapes until they dry up and can be pulled easily by hand. This has resulted in finding more and more self sown seedlings.

Most of them I cut off, but I put lancifolia right next to my walkway so I could see the flower display up close and personal. It depends on if I like the flowers. I tend not to like very tall stalks with a few flowers at the top.

Deanna

Flowers of newly planted hostas I break off to permit the plants to use that energy to increase other parts.

I cut.

no cut

Cut after blooms are gone.

tj

leave to go to seed....then unnoticed tiny hostas grow and become monsters and i try to figure out who they heck they are and why i planted them "there". LOL

No cut

and I just noticed all kinds of tiny little babies growing within my hostas.
Jen

hahaha live the dream, baby

I leave mine uncut. My Guacamole flowers look like orchids - almost. The eyes of the beholder syndrome.

I leave mine until the scape dies. Just today I had bees in the flowers and I could never say no to s bee!

chris