Hey bettylu, I too had a mature S&S and last year I decided I was going to have more than 5 or 6 hostas, so I dug this one up and divided it in to 6 divisions. In July, in North Carolina where it is HOT! I kept the largest of the six and planted it in the new hosta garden. It was originally in too much sun, and even though it was HUGE, the leaves curled and burned by the middle of summer. It is now planted under a dreaded maple, but is was the only shade I had. I think it still looks pretty good, even though it has been TOTALLY neglected this year.

Sum and Sumstance

Just for you Pam.

Paul

OMG! That's just how I saw it! rofl
Pam

mine are in full sun.. and they do just fine..

sun isnt your problem ... and you know why

ken

Hey..that's my stuff!
I have been replaced by a..a..a HOSTA?
Where's my chair?

So Clever!!!!! LOL

Connie

You guys are SO FUNNY! Paul I LOVED your photoshopped picture!!!

Talynnp, thanks for the encouragement and pictures... right now mine is probably 5 times larger than the ones in your pictures, so I should be able to divide it the way you did and still have a good sized clump in this spot.

Ken, I am thrilled to hear that you think it is not the sun! I will dig it up (carefully) and do my darndest to remove what hopefully will be fully decomposed big maple roots by now (3 years since the tree was removed) and amend the soil like crazy and replant. At the time I removed the tree, I spent like 2 days hacking at what was left of the roots after the tree removal service ground the stump and had no energy left to do the same underneath the hosta. I put in a small pond where the tree was and the hosta is about three feet from the edge below a low retaining wall. By the way, I have been top dressing it with vermicompost (from my worm farm), decomposed leaves and composted cow manure (the kind you by at Lowes). Is this a good combination to amend with?

I will search for Ken's posting on moving large hosta so I can "do it right".

Anyway, after seeing the picture of "my" hosta in Pauls picture - I will never be able to look at mine the same way again without laughing!!!!

Thanks to all who posted.
Betty

I'll be using this one for my screen saver when we go to Fla this winter - lol
Pam

Paul you are sooo talented!

5 to 10 years to maturity ...

ANY division of the crown ... or digging it up ..... can set you back.. 5 to 9 years ..

link below

good luck

ken

Here is a link that might be useful: link

Yup - Sun isn't the problem. I have six in full sun and one in mostly shade. That one isn't pretty - it is reaching for the sun, has fewer leaves, has a more open habit. The lush sextuplets are so full - I think I counted 120+ eyes on most of them this spring. So full the leaves fight for space. They've been in the ground 10 years. I also just took 'a hunk' of one when the eyes showed up this Spring and gave it to a relative - so many eyes that it suffered no loss of fullness. They get LOTS OF WATER. And a golf umbrella when it's over 90 degrees - and more water.

Westy