Sydney's Spunk is now $95 at White Oak's Nursery.

Nice, but hardly $95 nice, IMHO.

yes!!!

but are you going to dig it up.. to prove you were sitting on the porch..

or are we supposed to simply believe.. it ACTUALLY RAINED ... ????

rotflmbo...

ken

ps: have a great day ...

When I went on my three day hosta shopping spree I ended up paying $50 for my Originator's Stock 'She's a Dancer'.

This was by far my most expensive purchase (thus far). She really did dance her way into my heart and I can't wait to see her all grown up.

I'll let you know when the first recital is. :)

Ludi

Hmmm, I'm not looking for any hi dollah hosta. However, when next February and the First Look auction rolls around, I'll be saving my $$$ to give somebody a run for their money on any particular hosta that I happen to like. Every man for himself. When it is for a good cause, I don't mind running the price up, since it is really a game. What I don't like is having to wait until May for those plants to ship.

I love to browse through the HostaFinder too. It is raining outside now,coming down nice straight and steady, so I'll be inside the rest of the day. My alphabetical list of what is in my garden is stapled inside the HostaFinder--and my wish list is on the last blank page....or what used to be blank, but is now a lot of scratched through names, stars beside names, you get the idea. Me, the Hostapedia, and the HostaFinder sit in bed reading after I close down the Internet.

With all this rain, the grass keeps growing quicker than I can have it cut....time for the Roundup, the bark mulch, and hosta pots to take over more territory. Pretty soon we can get rid of the mower and just use the weedeater. No more paying for lawn guys, gasoline, or picking up water hoses when they come to mow. Too hot to do all that sort of work when I could be checking each hosta for any issues it has with our climate.

I'm very proud of the way the plantaginea family of hosta look, and today I moved just about every one of them into the sun, beginning with the heavy hitters among them. Mama plantaginea went first, then Aphrodite and Venus, Royal Standard, Guacamole, Holy Mole, Double Up (which is a really big guy), and then Fried Bananas, Avocado, etc etc, you get the idea. I thought I had a picture, but not any taken today. Everything that I ordered is in the pot and the rain is doing the watering for me, no hose dragging at this house today. Maybe I have one shot which will give you an idea of what the newest area of the garden now consumed by hosta looks like....I'll see if I have one. No camera can really encompass what my eye sees, it would be impossible.

moccasin - nice lineup there! With all the money you will save not cutting grass you may be able to splurge on some of those $50 beauties.
Jan

Over the years, I've learned restraint. Too many $$$ down the tubes on must-have-just-released-first-time-offered hostas. If they can be tc'd, they will be, and spread out to the masses for a whole lot cheaper. Rhino Hide went for $150 when Don Rawson offered them at first. Now they are about $20. BUT if you bought one of those early ones, you probably have a rather magnificent plant by now. (Nice plant, Don, I even like the flowers.)

But then...I've had Blue Mouse Ears and L.Dragonfly for many years of joy before they showed up in all the usual places.

A good hosta price is what it is worth to YOU at the time you buy it.

If only 3 people have it, and on their honor promise never to tc it, and it is simply exquisite... well, then...hmmmmmm.

-Babka

Look at all the garden catalogs, Land of the Giants must have a thousand different ones and I have only 180 different ones, so I can buy another 820 different hostas at $20 and less before i will have any need to even think about >$50. And very very soon there will be no more space in my yard anyway for hostas, so no need ever for >$50!
Bernd