Welcome....we are good at enabling....soon you will be eating beans and oatmeal to finance your hosta addiction!
Linda C

Keep the name tags!

YES,KEEP THE NAME TAGS!

Even better,start out with a simple map, write down where every hosta is,and be sure to up date it every time you plant.This information is"Priceless"

Welcome and hang on,you are in for a joy ride.

Carol

Hi everyone!

Thank you for your replies!!

Beans + Oatmeal = Complete protein with good bulk. IÂll keep that in mind;)

I keep tags and also log them into a database. I try to keep certain plants marked outside. I find that the markers tend to disappear no matter what I do. IÂm inconsistent with mapping, but I do that too. Thanks for the reminder! I will be sure to map my recent plantings.

Update: Hosta Collector Day 2:

I purchased Guacamole, a child of Fragrant Bouquet. I also purchased the plain species Hosta plantaginea. Being a newbie, I donÂt know if there are any cultivars of Hosta plantaginea that have variegated foliage while maintaining the large flower size and fragrance. IÂm not sure if IÂve ever seen Hosta plantaginea in bloom.

IÂve always wondered how to pronounce hosta. Like hOst or hast, but I read that the plant is named in honor of Austrian botanist Nicholas Thomas Host, so then I would think it should be said with a long o else it does not resemble his name.

Regards,
PoseyPlanter

WELCOME...so happy you are joining us. Hostas are addictive so be prepared to be enabled.

Karen

Welcome PoseyPlanter,

It's hosta as in Ha Ha! Who knows why or really cares! LOL

One leads to many and finally hundreds if you have the space.

I too live in IL. It's nice to watch new hosta people evolve!!!

Connie

Fun question when people ask about HO-sta verses HAh-sta pronunciation. At first, I thought the same thing about Nicholas Thomas Host. Then I started thinking:

HOW DO WE KNOW HIS NAME IS PRONOUNCED 'hOst' RATHER THAN 'hAHst'?

I mean, he was Austrian, not English. Maybe he DID pronounce his name as 'hahst' which is WHY we pronounce hosta the way we do in the first place....????

Regattagirl

Too true Regattagirl!

Yeah, English is hard enough for me. Speaking it is fine - spelling it is yucky! I realized that I misspelled my moniker after the fact and kept it as is anyway. Should be PosyPlanter. HeeHee.

Regards,
PoseyPlanter

Thank GOD FOR SPELL CHECK,AND WEBSTER.EH?
Carol

Hi PoseyPlanter,

My all time favorite hosta bloom is from my plantaginea! She has the largest most beautiful white blooms and what a fragrance! I don't have many duplicates but I do have several plantagineas in strategic locations for its scent. You will love yours too!

Diane/OH

WELCOME to the passion and this forum! You are going to have fun!!!!

Excellent Choices! I love the fragrant ones.
There is an edge variegated Plantaginea called Ming Treasure, and a streaked one called Athena.
Dave

Hi everyone!

Thank you for your replies:)

I will keep an eye out for the variegated Plantaginea cultivars. Fragrance is very important to me, especially in the garden. To me, pleasant scents in the garden add such a depth and breadth of experience that the garden seems to expand in size, making my little garden seem larger. Similarly, I find that being drawn to scents in the garden can be distracting from the nearby noisy street so that my tiny scented garden becomes an insulated oasis that seems much larger once IÂm inside of it than it would appear from the outside.

I think that for now, I need to nurture the three hostas I recently planted and see how they mature/what problems arise. I have a tendency to over plant:/ IÂm sure IÂm not the only one;)

Regards,
PoseyPlanter