Next year I will have a mountain of homebrew compost,rich dark and fresh & steamy . I will get out early spring & clean out the winter brush to create a new hosta bed between my drive way & the woods. A tall strong "digger" may jump outta the trees & offer some assistance.Trumpets will blare as the UPS man brings in boxes apon boxes of nice new plants. I will look out my castle windows & see hosta out each & every one ! day dreaming .....~Dot

This time next year, my new garden will start to shape up. My tiny front yard will be full of first year hostas and companion plants. The rest I don't know about yet. It's a wonderful 'up north MN' sort of feeling place, as is, and I want to be very careful to maintain that as I plant. Hopefully there will be a gazebo and a small pond near the fire pit that I've already put in. Will just have to wait and see....

This time next year my 200 hostas will have moved from their happy home on the shores of Indiana's largest natural lake and will be settling their toes into their new home on a ridge south of Nashville, Tennessee. They will probably be relaxing in a holding area of a couple truckloads of topsoil, waiting for landscaping plans to be finished.

Dear Lord, please let it be so! I hope I'm not still digging and moving them!

My garden will probably be non-existant,because of the lousy weather this year! What with spring freezes and drought the rest of the year,they will probably not survive the winter. Well,there's always cacti and succulents! Phil

This time next year it'll all be lawn. Ha, Ha, Ha (evil cackle)! Just kidding. But I must say, I'm ready for them all to go to sleep.

PIM

I have a driveway over sixty feet long lined with fir trees, this time next year I would like to have planted hosta,s the whole lenth of driveway, we shall see.

I will have murdered many, many voles.

Not sure how, yet, but it will happen.

There will be no mess from the new septic system (they distroyed most of the grass and former flower beds in north half of my back yard).All will be reseeded and replanted and everything will be as it was only better!

In my dreams!!! LOL

Connie

All of my hostas will have survived the winter including those in pots. I will no longer be worried about them.

The area between "The Throne and The "The Work Center" (sounds better than garbage area) will be finished and flowing over with vegetables and flowers.

there will be more hosta beds (mounded) & a fence in the very back. a few more varieties of morning glory. different ferns and hellebores to accompany the hostas. also a small patio and hey, why not some new/plastic wicker furniture? potted hostas accenting the patio. dh and i will be in harmonious agreement over where the new hostas can go & which of his invasive species collection can stand to be pruned.... the trumpet vine which is busting up the driveway will have been removed. the fish, squirrels, and birds will all be fed and happy, the sunlight shining...

Nice daydream Dot! Especially like the audio/visual of the trumpets blaring when the UPS guy arrives with your hosta boxes!!!

J, didn't know you relocated. Much good luck with the new garden!
Hostagrams, the same wishes for you with your new garden...
and Phil, don't despair yet, spring will bring new hope and lots of hosta eyes, just wait and see :-)

PIM, same thoughts here as well but winter is so-o-o long isn't it?

A 60 ft. driveway, Katy? Sounds divine to picture it with lots of hostas underneath the fir trees.

Inlimbo yes indeed!! I'm with you, goodbye to voles. Saw one yesterday, actually threw my cat Candy at it but she's not much of a vole hunter, but she never met a pretty songbird she couldn't kill :-(

Connie, best of luck with that. Fingers crossed for no damage.

McT I don't doubt that your area will be overflowingly beautiful. You haven't posted a pic yet that isn't gorgeous!

Ebb Tide, a very nice mental picture. A soothing way to take us into the colder temps.

Shade....what will my garden look like this time next year?
probably much the same, but with a few more Hostas. My new bed is a five year plan. It's filling up, but I have a way to go yet. I am not in a hurry, then there's less changing my mind later. I just plant, mulch, and keep the weeds down. I actually sprayed roundup to the rest of the unplanted area a few weeks ago. Not planting there, but I wanted to keep it at bay.

By this time next year, you'll be sick of seeing me post pictures of my terraced hosta garden which is finally "finished" now...

my new fence will restore the shade my previous neighbors destroyed by hacking at my tree (which overhung their driveway)...

the plants which have been in pots for years will have had this fall, all winter, and next spring to grow big and strong in the ground! I'll have new ferns in a few places to replace what this year's savage drought destroyed.

And I'll be out there with the new camera, click, click, post, post!

By this time next year I will have finished all the projects that LAST year I said would be finished by this time this year!

This time next year...hopefully, the hostas that are growing under the maples and sweet gum tree will all be replanted in their new spinout bags.

Rox, a five year plan for a bed sounds so nice, just selecting plants at your leisure, no pressure to fill it up right away.
Lisa, we never get tired of seeing pix here. The more the merrier!
Amen to that MA! Same here, lol.
Sassy you'll have to update us on the spinout bags and how they worked out for you. I recently got rid of a maple that was threatening to uproot the house. Replaced it with a nice dogwood.

I will have several new hostas in two different beds, beginning or continuing work on a much bigger bed for more hosta and various other shady plants, depending on what the year will bring. But I will definitely be adding some more different cultivars to my yard, since I haven't got squat....lol!

My attached garage will be long gone (needs to go due to settlement issues) and hopefully I will have started taking down the ugly retaining wall that was once holding up the back of the garage. I have dreams of a beautiful terraced stairway leading down into the back yard. I like the idea of a five year plan to get the back completely done. It is hosta heaven back there, and at this time, wasted space.

Does anyone have this problem? Whenever I am meandering around the hosta library, I will see one I really like. It almost always has like a $100 price tag on it, when I look it up. Hopefully this time next year I won't be enrolled in some debt management program.

Smorz, LOL LOL

I just finished reading your post and laughed till I started coughing (fall cold turned into bronchitis)

Debt Management!!!!! My mind pictured you in front of a Judge pleading your case! LOL

Connie

Shade, I plan to follow your lead in reducing the number of Undulatas, that is erromenas and albo-marginatas, also Plantagineas along the main traffic areas, and replace them Nigescenc, Sagae, Regal Splendor, Fortunei Ellerbröck, and American Halo with Green Fascinations for contrast. I have lots of divisions on the way to make the change.
Manfred

Well, it is almost a year later how did you all do in getting to your goals?

Brenda (who is going through all the discussions from page 65, then 64, then 63, etc. etc. and might be caught up sometime this winter! Been through the whole gallery already though.)

Brenda, Thanx for finding this, very cute. I hope there arent a lot of disapointed ppl when they read what they were going to get done this yr and didnt. I hope they all say they finished and now have new lists for this time next year. I wasnt in this forum last year so Im going to add for 09. This time next year I will have found the perfect place for my elegans so I will finally stop moving it around. I will cement my rock walls, give that one path a purpose, put a rock face on the shed and fix the settling in my waterfall, oh, and find the leak too (maybe).makes me tired! Id better rest up this winter!

LOL! What a surprise to see this thread again! Totally forgot about it from last year and after reading my post at the top I'm not sure I did too well.
I never managed to move the Undulata erromena, tried but gave up, it's just too huge. I did manage to rearrange several hostas but not enough. Slug damage is still there but at least not as much as last year, the battle goes on.

We got everything replanted with grass after moving in 20 yards of black dirt. As much as I hated to do it (hubby insisted) I'm glad we did as I had health issues and got O done in my garden. By the time I felt better all the perennials we moved to the vegetable garden area were too advanced to transplant so that will be waiting for spring of '09.

Bought 0 hostas and gave our son all but 2 potted up hostas for him to start a new hosta bed. I had terrible luck over wintering my pots in our shed which I used for the first and last time. Lost over half of them. Not a good year for me but I am looking forward to next year and starting hosta hunting again.

Connie

PS: Hoping to get the new Zilis book and spending all winter drueling over it! LOL

This time next year,hummmmmmmmmmm

I will have all my hosta beds just the way i want them,all weeded,no slug damage,and my one hosta with nematodes,healty.
I will be able to sit and enjoy my garden,and not work non stop.
I will have the design garden i am now working on finished.
I will have learned a little more about hybridizing.
I will visit Connies garden
I will go on more garden walks
I will learn how to use my greenhouse(study over the winter)any help will be greatly appreciated NOW)
I will be reading this and finding i did it all!!
Signed,Carol-a.k.a.Just1morehosta

This time next year?? Hmmm... well hopefully looking at my hosta's not being fried from a drought. Maybe I will be planning on expanding expanding or adding a new area to grow hosta's in. Wishing for more hosta, Planning my lists for the next year. Weeding
until every thing is dormant. mary

The hardscape will be complete (finally), the mower guy will mow, and I will just garden, garden, garden, garden... The holding pen is full of hostas and friends awaiting their perfect spots.

"I will learn how to use my greenhouse(study over the winter)any help will be greatly appreciated NOW)"

What is the size of your greenhouse?

Hi EO,
Well,the green house is 22 x 65.

We bought it used, in the spring,the frame and shelving were easy to install,we had to order a new poly cover for it,the company we ordered it from sold us a white poly, we know know it is the wrong cover for growing,so we will replace it in the spring,(again):0(

My hubby is in the process of instaling lights,and a couple of fans,my hope is,that i will be able to winter over about 8oo hosta in pots,i was told,that would work, IF,we kept the fans going all winter,the doors open,and the side doors opes also,we were told we COULD place them on the racks,they did not have to be on the ground.

In times past,i have wintered them over on the ground, some time in Dec.we go out and turn them over on their sides,but,that is proving to be a lot of work,in the cold.For so many hosta.
I really would like to just place them in the green house after they go dorment,and not think about them again for a few months,then, some time in March,start to warm it up a little,but don't really know if this will work or not.

We have asked a couple of people and get conflicting advice as to what we should do?????????????????

Is there a easy way to this maddness?
Thank you EO,and any one else who has an idea.

Carol