Absolutely beautiful!!

I think it actually looks best in a pot since the leaves can then cascade. I think I am actually going to move mine into a pot now that I have seen your. Since I think it looks kinda "compacted" to me. Thanks for the idea!

Jen

I have mine in a chimney flue,and it looks good there,because it can cascade out over the edge. phil

Nice pictures Paul and Jen.

Jen, I have hostas in pots around my big tree in the front. We have about 40 extension cords that meet around that tree when we put our Christmas lights up, so it will get tons of foot traffic. If you put your Ginsu Knife in a pot, it will look nice right where you have it.

Phil, thanks for the scoop on the chimney flue liners. I'll be able to squeeze in a few more hostas into each of my beds :)

I don't know why, but it seems that all of my ruffled edged hostas that I have in clay pots seem to be doing so much better than the ruffled ones planted in the ground.

I'm also noticing that I like some of my hostas better in the raised beds than in the ground.

Paul and Margo, Gorgeous hostas.
Gesila, Good idea for when I quit doing a pottage garden. What ones do you like better in a raised bed. gramma

Gramma Jan,

I bought an Ivory Necklace with 25 eyes and put it in the corner of a raised bed (diamond shaped). Being unexperienced, I didn't realize how large 25 pips would become when they were unfurled. It didn't take long for it to crowd out the one I had in the middle. I took it out and put it in front of a pretty large Guacamole. Now, it looks short and "flat" not nearly as pretty as it did in the raised bed.

Another example is Pilgrim. Pilgrim looked flat, dull, and rather boring to me in the ground (plus the slugs loved it). It seemed to "come to life" in the raised bed.

Summer Music and Fragrant Blue are ones that I'm going to move into the German style garden were building right now (all raised beds). Both of them just look dull and flat too.

I've found that if I can't seem to got a good picture of it in the ground, that it's probably a good candidate for a raised bed.

Gesila

Excellent points, Gesila! I agree with you wholeheartedly! Something about them being raised up,
where you can also see their shapes, (as in vase shape with some) they really become much more
spectacular,IMHO and as per my particular preference!

Beautiful plant pics.
ANOTHER one that is on my list.

Paul,

Who is the blue and white one you can see through the fence in your first picture?

Gesila

I am going to have to pot mine, it is taking forever to grow!
Looks like yours grew much faster that mine in the ground. Three years and it has barely grown 2 or 3 new leaves.

Let me guess on the blue and white one Gesila asked about...
Blue Ivory? (I never get these right)

chris

El Nino, so I'd take Blue Ivory as very close.

Paul