Wow! More great pics from you! Your LS Paisley Print is the prettiest one I've seen!

Fantastico!

mbug, what is the small dark (blue) puckered one behind Stained Glass?

Great looking plants, my LPP is slow, your's is wonderful!

I hope you will have sun soon! We also went through a long (gloomy is exactly the right word for it) period of rain (not enough) and grey days. Even the hostas looked not amused. But then it was around 30°C within a few days and the sun it so burning hot...also not good...nothing normal anymore...

Very pretty . . . every one of them!

I'm impressed with the size of LSPP. Mine has been very slow

Karin....That's Deep Blue Sea....comes up late for me and not fully out yet, but a great puckered blue....and yes, the weather is increasingly strange!

So nice, thanks for sharing! Love your Lakeside PP. I only have one Lakeside, they are all lovely.

Sherry

Lovely Photos Mbug, another lovely Irish Luck, mine is dismal.

I have a good home for Queen of the Seas lol..in spite of the rain your hostas look clean..mine have spots and stuck on debris..

Whenever I see your pictures, I feel like a little kid exclaiming, "Not fair!" Your hostas are beautiful and it seems you have ideal conditions.

popmama......I have a lot that are not "pic worthy"......I keep telling them they have to try harder!

Ok mbug, let's have it.... what's your secret???? I understand the northerners have long cold winters to make their hostas happy... and a lot of people in the east and the west have more acid soil to make ALL their plants happy... but you live in Missouri, right? Right here in the middle, like Kansas....with alkaline clay, weird weather, wind, rocks, etc., how do you do it? Compost?

All gorgeous plants! My compliments!

But really, what's your secret?

Windy.....I'm a little east of Missouri ......New Jersey (The Garden State!). Many of mine are still a work in progress, others I move til I get it right, and I think I have a good eye when I have a chance to pick new plants. Our fellow posters share such awesome photos of their beautiful hostas that I often feel in awe of their ability to grow such beauties.

Well, I am in awe of YOUR ability to grow such beauties! They look amazing and I'm wondering if you will ever run out of space with any of them because they look so mature but just keep getting bigger and bigger! That QOTS looks so pretty in that pot. It appears that each one is posing, they look so perfect! Such a treat, thank you so much.

Mbug, I think I had your location mixed up with someone else's- littlebug maybe? So- New Jersey... you DO have more acid soil. And I guess they have nicknamed it the Garden State with good reason.

Well, you definitely have a good eye, and I know you put a lot of work into your garden... it shows.

Queen of the Seas is gorgeous!!

My LPP is slow too, so I ordered a couple more from Rarefind Nursery. They both are four crowns. They must have given them a big shot of hormones.

mbug you never cease to amaze! Beautiful specimens placed perfectly each and every one. Garden State indeed!

Mbug is across the Delaware Memorial Bridge from me, I think for the most part we have ideal growing conditions for most ihosta. He has the edge on me, though when it comes to growing fantastic plants. Regal Promenade is stunning.

Yuhu,mbug, I have Deep Blue Sea already :-) Finally one I don't have to put on the wishlist! Only have to wait until it looks as beautiful as yours...

Donna....agree about the conditions, not the other. Your hosta are stunning!!

Dick....you got two good ones! Is Rarefind Nursery in New Jersey?

You have very beautiful hostas.

My LPP is still pipping...and mayyyybe one shoot is stretching a wee bit, sigh... even the latest emerger, On Stage is much further along! LPPs reluctance to jump out of the gate reminds me of Plantaginea which is one of the first to emerge but takes a slowwww time to unfurl - only LPP is slower still. Such a wait for such a beauty...but so worth it.

Mbug, mine is only a newbie yet...how old is yours?