Welcome Lenore! Glad you came out of "lurkdom".

We would love to see photos of your gardens! I am always looking for inspiration and the best place to find it is in other peoples yards LOL!

Bring 'em on!

Alexa

Welcome Lenore
You will find most every one here very knowlegable about hosta,i have been here since the middle of summer,and can not even begin to tell you how much i have learned.
I have grown hosta for a long time,many,many years,but just now started to Learn about them. :0)

We all Love picture,never to many,so please, show us what you have done,we are all so different in our garden design,it is so much fun to see what others have done.There are some blow you away gardens here,another tool for learning.

Nice to have a newcomer,you will become so hooked,this is a warning! ha ha

Carol

welcome ....

if your new hosta.. have not gone summer dormant.. nor have brown edges ... then they have been watered enough ..

and if they were watered enough ...

you need do nothing else... especially worrying .... about whether they will be back next spring.. and most likely .. they will be bigger ...

i will be waiting for the pix ...

ken

Thanks for the warm welcome!! I will post some pics when I get home from work today!

Ken--some of my new hostas did start turning brown around the edges, so I'm watering about 1" per week faithfully to make sure no more leaf edges turn brown. A couple of plants actually looked like they were getting smaller, so I'm trying to keep them from shrinking any more! We had a VERY dry spell here during August. I hope Sept. is better, but it's another dry month usually.

What is summer dormant??

i have been in drought for 10 weeks.. running the well 24/7 for the last 6 weeks.. drip irrigation ...

it is getting late in the season .. just water..

and dont worry about how they look .. its fall ..

ken

Welcome, I spent most of my life in Louisville, KY and now live in Depauw, IN.

email me if you are near by or not I guess.
esther_opal@yahoo.com

Hi Esther!

I live in Lexington, KY.

Hi Esther!

I live in Lexington, KY.

If you find yourself in or near Louisville KY.

Here is a link that might be useful: a wooded area near the house

Welcome, Lenore! It's good to have you here.

"For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore".Love that poem! Welcome to the forum! We are like one big dysfunctional family here!

Denny

LOL Thanks Denny! I love that poem too! My mother was an English teacher!!

Nice to see you on the forum Lenore, a warm welcome from NJ. Its been very dry here in the Garden State for the last 4-5 weeks too. I am trying to keep my plants alive ,well until yesterday I heard my well pump groaning !! They are calling for rain this weekend ... but ,big butt heard that before. What hostas did you get this year? ~ Dot

Thanks for the welcome, Dot! I just posted a new thread about the hostas I got this year. The link to it is below.

Here is a link that might be useful: new hosta beds

Welcome Lenore!!
From the tundra!!
That would be sunny and damp this year MN.
I have not even turned a hose on!!
(knock on wood)

Welcome Lenore to the forum and the wonderful world of hostas. I don't post much but I do read most of the threads, just to keep learning and getting to know this great bunch of hostaholics. This is a great place to learn and exchange ideas and pictures. We Love pictures.

June

Welcome Lenore!

I live about 15 minutes north of Madison, Wisc. and love it here! I'm a hosta addict and now have almost 260 different varieties. I introduced hostas to my sister who lives in the burbs near Detroit and she was shocked to find she had over 100 hostas...so watch out...the addiction is contagious!

Char

heh heh Char! I'm already planning where to plant new ones next year!

Great to meet you, Lenore and welcome aboard!!! We love pics. so don't hesitate to post any you
are willing to share with us!!! Hosta are so gratifying!!!!

Hope you post often!!!

Janice

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone! For those of you who haven't yet seen the pics I posted, they are in a thread called "New Hosta Beds". The link is below:

Here is a link that might be useful: new hosta beds