Do NOT bring extra people with you. If the Wife and I have invited you then she has prepared refreshments for a certain number of people not more

My favorite is when someone stoppped by and seen my young Sagae or Liberty and tells me: "Oh, I have that green and white one up and down both sides of my driveway."

It's time to invite them to watch Maurey's amazing dna results on tv. They have earned it.

Les

good stuff lol

HAHA!!! These are great!!!

LOL about the uninterested spouse. I love my husband dearly, but he just doesn't get hostas. "Why do you want so many kinds? They're all green." That said, he never complains when I return from a shopping expedition.

All too true, lol

1. Just because I happen to be home, and you 'happened' to be in the area, does NOT give you the right to just drop by. EVER!!

2. Just because I made the mistake of not telling you how inappropriate it was for you do a self guided tour when I wasn't home doesn't mean you can do it any time you like with friends in tow. EVER! (Yep, my neighbors were doing that and another neighbor told me. They won't do it again!)

Having giving tours for over a decade now, we do have instances, where folk who know how to find us (a feat in itself given our out-of-the-way location) who do 'drop in'.

There are good and bad things about this. We don't so much mind it, when we happen to be here, though we do like our 'alone, quiet' time between tours.

As far as we can tell, the 'when we're not here' visitors have always left a note and money when they came and went when we were off elsewhere.

Still, we would prefer time to properly prepare and greet guests, whether new or repeat visitors.

We're not so drastic as to object to visitors who may need the use of the bathrooms!

I've even given several thoughts to finding out how to properly run a 'Bed n Breakfast' Hosta op here, if for no other reason than to meet and befriend fun new Hosta friends.

The only real problem I have with visitors is if they step into the 'beds', since we so want to keep the soil un-compacted there for the 'wimpy' Hosta roots to keep expanding un-impeded.

So far, that's only been a problem twice in my observations, thank goodness.

Then again, ken_adrian is likely laffing his a$$ off, thinking I should toss the Hostas on the driveway, run them over, and replant them, wait the traditional Hosta rule of 3's (sleep, creep, leap) and re-enjoy. I'm too old to start over !

/rant_off

teehee,

hh

Do not knock on my door at 9:30pm with empty pots and ask me if I plan on dividing my hostas soon.

Jen

Thanks Ken for the link . I just had company with a male dog that marked my hosta bed and ripped through it so I can relate. Plucked all the brown leaves and they are gone now. My dogs KNOW not to go in my hosta beds!!
Thinking of posting these rules at the gate!

I would suggest that it is grounds for divorce if an uninterested spouse should take it upon himself to Rip Out dozens of carefully tended decades old mammoth varieties because they are "boring".