Wow! Look at all those pips! Looking great, most excellent. Just curious, Mbug...do you know how many hostas you have? Seems like you must have a couple hundred.

It's OK, Jon, they're up and running, no stopping em now. Very nice.

Jon

Don.....I think I'm somewhere around 200....counting multiples (to late to stop now!)........Jon good luck with the Frost advisories

Mbug - the Blue Cadet eyes look so tightly packed in, and there are so many of them - a very impressive rosette! It's one healthy, happy hosta in its surroundings. Your others are far from shabby as well. Surrounded by the clean layer of dark mulch, the colours pop nicely!!! Be sure to keep posting pics as they progress through the season.

BC

Jon - hopefully "Jack" won't bite in the coming days - lots of action beginning to happen in your neck of the woods!

BC

Beautiful mbug , more then beautiful!!! I can hardly imagine trying to count the pips on your Blue Cadet . What a full compact clump it is. Love it and of course the others too . Spring is so fun!

Every single one of them looks great! I have to say that Blue Cadet took my breath away. What a great pic at the perfect time.

Mbug, please show us that beauriful Blue Cadet next week, too!

Jon, finally winter is releasing its hold on your lovelies.

The all look so perfect and pretty especially with the fresh mulch which really makes the colors pop.

(not a hosta regular...indeed have only two hosta clumps), however, the Blue Cadet caught my eye on the front page...and I thought it looked like a clump of lettuce (just thought you might be amused by that).

Mbug, you are way ahead of many of us with the yard work! The newly applied mulch showcases your hostas beautifully. It is so nice to see them at this stage and the colours are so vivid. So fresh, so spring-like! Love it! So motivating!

Blue Cadet is drool-worthy. Perfection of a mature hosta at this stage...can't wait to see it fully open.

Seeing your MD, I am excited about what I can expect from my Mourning Dove...having only acquired it last year. The muted colour it is showing at unfurling is so soothing. You said you moved it... to less sun or...?

Jon, you must be so excited! You did so much planting last year - must be gratifying to see those l a r g e shoots showing! So lovely. (I thought if I posted a photo of my teeny pips right after your photos, peeps would peer and say...so, where are the hostas?...lol)

"Spring has sprung / The grass is riz / I wonder where dem birdies is!" from where do I remember that ditty???

Jon, we were away for a short trip, gone for 5 days and it was like a transformation took place and garden popped that quickly so in a week , you will be caught up and opened on many

mbug, I am still drooling over Blue Cadet lol

Beautiful Blue Cadet.

Now that is a wonderful sight, they are all beautiful! I have been cleaning up in the garden but I still have a long way to go. Happy to see you so far ahead of the curve. I hope the ones that got frosted are quick to recover.

Jo....you are so right.....the colors are just super vibrant this time of year....makes me stop and stare. You will like Mourning Dove.....elegant leaves and sometimes the way the light hits gives it almost a pastel look ....and scapes come out short and sideways.

I'll try to remember to update Blue cadet....thanks all for the kind comments!