can you favor us with a pic of the thing ...

consider pot in pot .. and you can be changing plants in and out all summer long ...

ken

ps: what tall to you.. i would consider 6 foot .. a tall planter .. bizarre.. but tall ...

I think an upright hosta would look nice..elegant..stately..architectural..I've read a lot of plant catalogues lol..

Do you think perhaps a 'Praying Hands' (the largest you can find) would make the statement you are looking for? It is the phenomenon of all hostas IMO.

Here are pots in question and you can see damage to Dancing queen from wind. No other hosta got affected, you can see Liberty in the back.

here are another set of tall planters...

Other hosta a foot above ground.

found this on pinterest..I think your Dancing Queen being taller looks nice..this seems short to me..your hostas on plant stands look great..my Krossa Regals are upright and sturdy.. wonder if they would work..that set of planters is gorgeous..

Thanks! Do not have any giant hostas as my real estate limited, do have baby Praying Hands... Oh possibilities!

Added few more containers,not tall ones but fitting into color scheme

Found that pic somewhere online (don't recall where), and unsure of hosta ID, but still thought it might give you an idea for your planters.

Found this pic on this forum, but I'm sorry I don't recall who posted it since I saved it a while ago. Thought you might like to see this idea too. I would move the hostas around in the pots until you find the right matches, and of course doing the "pots in pots" method would make that much easier than digging up the plants for each move. You may continue to have wind damage to the leaves until your hostas reach maturity or at least a good size clump. All of my new additions take a good beating in windy spots, but I find that it promotes new eyes to pop up, and the new foliage seems better adapted. Don't forget to show us pics of what you come up with :)

those pots look terrific together!..I love the big upright hosta in the barrell (in the pic above this comment)..for some reason I love upright hostas..

I just got Jade cascade this year, nice one eye and is in the pot, hopefully it will get just as gorgeous as this stunning pic.

Green Acres also looks nice, this one is in a 40 cm x 40 cm pot.

Thanks for sharing pictures! Am thinking hosta does just fine in containers for decorative purpose, just as annuals do. Pretty Birds,it is totally possible that I had new transplant problems coupled with winds and as maturity will grow it should get better. I will keep Dancing queen in that pot next year and we will see. I have had no problems keeping hostas in pots for overwintering but of course, now that I have 'spensive hostas, all bets are off...

I love your planters. My advice, if wind is an issue stay away from tall uprights. I lost a couple of pots from heavy wind toppling them over. Cascading is nice, I recommend Frisian Pride. I had it in a taller pot last year and it looked great; this year in a wide squat pot I don't like it as much. If you have a plant with flowers hanging down like Frisian Pride that's a good effect also in a taller pot. I don't want my flowers laying on the ground. If I still had Marilyn Monroe, it would be in a pot.

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If your present decision doesn't work out I would try Josephine's idea with Praying Hands. I agree, the wind in the Chicago area is always blowing. The slender leaves would hold up better under windy conditions.

Sherry