What a treat to arrive home to. I am especially happy to see your Proud Sentry up, I recall you were a bit concerned for its survival in that container. Looking good!

just wondering..are your hostas up earlier than usual?..or is this typical for NC?..I have a few pips but they seem early to me..weather is wacky this year..

My potted hostas (only 4) are popping up too.... so if I move them from the garage to the screened porch - which is on the north side of the house - do you think they will be okay from this point on? Or would I need to move them back into the garage if it gets below freezing again? On the porch they will be under a roof, and next to the house - so warmer than out in the yard... and with no direct sun on them.

For now, I've put them on the floor of the garage, near the door.... and when I'm home and it's nice outside, I raise the door about 2 feet so they get some light. It would be nice to have them on the porch and not have to worry about that.

Spring seems to be 4-6 weeks early here and lots of places. Our last frost date is usually April 15, so we could have another one. I guess wait and see is the only option.

Windy, would you be able to cover them on your porch if a freeze came?

Kathy - yes, I would.... so since I'm going out of town for a couple of days, maybe I'll wait and put them out there when I get back.

I suppose I could just keep pots out there all winter, couldn't I? I hate to admit... I've just been too chicken to try. I was worried they'd get cold! LOL! Maybe they'd be happier, and stay dormant longer? It's clearly warmer in the unheated garage.

We just got about 8 inches of snow. Nice to see some hostas awake somewhere.

We just got tornadoes on Monday night! I think we'd rather have snow.

We have predictions of three nights running this weekend with temps in the mid 20F. Today was tank top weather, things that were small this morning were a lot bigger by sunset. I could see where there was frost damage on some of the hostas that were up in the last freeze. So I guess I'm covering things all day Saturday. #%£>! Winter is supposed to come before spring!

Don't got.

I was doing some preliminary cleaning off of my beds earlier this week and accidentally removed too much from around one of my hostas. Aha! A pip! But I covered it back up. Temps are dropping for the coming weekend with snow predicted. Zone 5B here.

Look what has come up! I took a picture because our low for this week is now down to 20F. Three nights in the low 20s. I don't even think covering them is going to work.

Coconut Custard--that's a periwinkle flower for scale

I thought our freeze was to start tomorrow morning. Woke up to 29 degrees and frost, so I've been out watering. Hope that helps. The rest of the week is to get worse, so I'll be covering lots of early hostas. Spritzer is up at least a foot. Yikes!

Hope it's not too little too late.

Gold Regal tips are budding faster than they should: going down to 13 above tonight here in the mountains of far western Virginia so hope they stay under ground just a tad longer!

I've been covering plants for low predictions of 25F and getting lucky. Luck ran out last night, temps were below freezing for 12 hours and went to the low 20's. I wish I had taken pictures of everything before they froze. I covered 30 hostas. And we have two more nights with the same prediction. C'est la guerre!

I was hoping for an update, but this doesn't sound good. Do you mean they still froze even though you had them covered?

Some froze worse than others. I'll do a full assessment Saturday morning when the weather goes back to normal spring temps.

One of the kids at church asked his Grandaddy why we turned the clocks back to winter?

The lucky survivors:

Baby Bunting

Teaspoon--I cut a few frozen leaves off before this pic.

Geisha-- it initially looked like it had taken a bad hit but seemed fine by the end of the day.

Hacksaw--being next to those rocks might have helped.

Stiletto--maybe long skinny low leaves are less at risk.

Also Wolverine and Blue Silver did ok.

The unlucky: Ginsu Knife, Montana A, undulata univitta, Tiny Bubbles, Restless Sea. I covered 30 hostas in various stages of growth and it looks like I might have to do it again Wednesday.

The survivors look pretty good! Spring temperature fluctuations can be such a PITA.

today after the rain I took a stroll..LOTS of hostas on the way..my biggest one so far..tallest stems 5-6"..some that I inherited..transplanted a bunch all down the side of my garage..they never get too big..purple blooms..hard to ID yet but if anyone has an idea..

zkathy..your hostas look pristine..no visible damage to me..