potential new sites?

14 years ago

I am looking at 3 potential site options. 2 are new and one is existing but would involve moving hostas.

This is behind the shop and would involve a raised bed, likely. The soil is good only for weeds. I haven't convinced my hubby of this option yet. Plus, my pup loves to run thru here, around the shop.

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Here is a clematis and behind is a bleeding heart, moved last year (?). Can't remember.

These pictures are from different angles. We dug up the sod at the end of the existing hosta bed. It still needs some/a lot of work. Seriously, I wonder what possess me sometimes! I am pretty sure there is creeping charlie back here as well. I have been watching the sun pattern and it appears to get quite a bit at the end of the day. I have also considered moving some noids into this spot. In the second picture there are the taller green ones I thought of moving, behind the bleeding heart.

In this spot, I am thinking of moving the plain noids. I have 5 of them and they do nothing for me. This year I think they got frost nipped in May so really don't look good. I am thinking of moving them to the end of the hosta bed.

I hate to dispose of hosta's but I am running out of room. What do you do with hosta's you are not happy with any more? I can't even seem to give away for free.

Appreciate any thoughts on these options. I need to get Autum Frost, Blue Cade, Hadspen Blue and Lakeside Shore Master in the ground.

Jodi

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ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
14 years ago
what is that plastic under the mulch in pic #1??

otherwise.. any bare ground is a good spot for a hosta.. whats the hesitation ..?? .. you truly are confusing me

if they dont work there.. move them next season..

ken
Steve Massachusetts
14 years ago
You should know that landscape fabric will prevent your Hosta from getting the water that they need. It's just not a good idea.

Steve
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alexis717_df
14 years ago
It doesn't look like landscape cloth to me. Looks more like plastic that was put down to dump a load of mulch on. But I could be wrong.

Jodi when I can't get anyone to take a free hosta, or any plant for that matter, I just set the plant out on the side of the road with a free sign. Usually gone within the hour. Make sure there is a good wet root ball with plenty of soil still on it so it doesn't dry out.

Have fun with your new beds :)
User
14 years ago
What Alexis said is so true. I did that with a nice pot I set up, put all 4 new hosta in it that I had purchased from Lowes, then had second thoughts. Pot and all, it was gone from the curb within an hour.....
hostahillbilly
14 years ago
I clearly saw, in one of the fotos, an excessively large area of GRASS, GASP. WHY?

Do you really enjoy mowing that, perhaps with a stinky, noisy, expensive to run mower? Please (teehee).

Personally, I'd get some large pieces of cardboard, lay it on that grass, weigh it down with something (rocks, or . . .) starting now. Next spring, it's ready to plant with more environmentally friendly, and almost maintenance free Hostas, et. al.

Actually, if you did it NOW, you probably could be planting new Hosta beds this fall, a great time to plant.

Just my take, fwiw,

hh
in ny zone5
14 years ago
There is a lot of good space! It looks like you should right now start to read the catalogs of our favorite mail order nurseries, to get healthy and good sized plants, and then order 40 or so for beginning September delivery. Then you have 2 months to figure out the layout and prepare the beds with a lot of humus.
Bernd