plant them ..

frankly ... you dont know what winter is.. compared to most of us up here in the great frozen north ... lol .. it was 46 degrees last night ... crikey.. the furnace went on.. about 6 weeks early ...

good luck with the storm ...

ken

Will do, Ken. I'll start next weekend after this storm passes. Thanks we need much luck here in the south. Surrounded by big pecan trees. Lost one last year.

The storm has passed and a new day is here!!!

I just received my plants today.

Ken, they are all going in the ground.

Glad you made it through the storm okay! Congrats on your new additions. I don't know if zone 8 gets cold enough to give hostas the winter dormancy that they need, but hopefully someone from your area will respond. If it's too warm there, you could refrigerate them for a month or two. I've never had to do it, but you'd basically have to bare-root them (when they start going dormant) and rinse with 10% bleach before sticking in the fridge. I've overwintered potted hosta in the basement twice, and the first time all of them did well, but the second time we had a mild winter and they stayed partly awake, with the result of several rotting in late Winter while still in the basement, several others rotting outside in mid- to late Spring while struggling to fully break dormancy, and the rest waking up but remaining small all Summer. It wasn't even two consecutive winters, but only one mild basement winter, that did this to them, which I think demonstrates the winter chill requirement pretty well. I'll probably have three pots to overwinter this year, and think I'm going to try keeping them in the garage instead of basement this time (since I'm too lazy to do the fridge method).

By the way, I've cut off and brought indoors several of my hosta scapes with pods and am waiting for them to hopefully split open now. Might have cut them too soon, but didn't want to risk the deer eating all of them. I'd already cut off and disposed of some before seeing that you're looking for seeds, then the deer ate some others, and I finally managed to cut and save the rest but hopefully not too early. Will keep you posted. If there any no good seeds in any of these then I might have some small divisions to share in the Spring. Or I could try again next year to save some seeds...would probably try keeping the stalks in water instead of letting them dry inside the house like I'm doing now. Also, I don't know if they're any good, but I think I remember seeing hosta seeds for sale on eBay, so maybe you could check those out too.

Pretty Birds, thanks for remembering me. I'm going to take a picture of my yard one day. Hopefully before and after soon so people can see what I'm talking about. It's pretty big and just vacant. So my favorite is Hostas as perennials.