how fun!!..if you want to make all of us really jealous post pics lol..

I will do that!

Sounds like a great haul! Yes pictures pls!

I love my Something Blue and Extasy has been good grower for me. I do not have a Striptease but have just about every sport of it, love them.

You did very well. I have all of these but Blue Ripples, and all but one you chose is a very good grower, and most will tolerate full shade to full sun.

Fried Bananas, which is on my top 10 favorites list, like a lot of sun, even full sun, and is a hummingbird magnet, with huge fragrant flowers.

June will grow anywhere, but will look quite different in sun versus shade. You might want to check out hostalibrary.org for pictures of the wide range of coloration possible with June.

El Nino is a somewhat slow grower, give it a bit more sun rather than less and it will grow a bit more quickly.

Thank you for your feedback! I'm really warming up to the bright hostas. Fried Bananas wasn't even on my wishlist but I fell in love with it at first sight. Then, when I returned home and saw photos of it in bloom...my heart was so happy. The combination of the bright white with the bright gold is spellbinding.

El Nino was an impulse buy (!) based on a recommendation from Larry. It is a smaller plant so it makes sense that it is a slow grower. Please tell me it's not as slow as Great Expectations. I'm really having a hard time getting that one to take off.

The pictures aren't the best but here are the plants I picked up at the sale today. Oops, I don't think I took one of Gold Standard. You get the idea anyway.

they all look great!..I have at least 10 each of June, Golden Tiara and Krossa Regal..they've done really well for me..would love to have Sagae and Something Blue..some of my Junes in May..

Just an FYI, here is my June growing in about 6 hours of direct sun, no sunburn ever.

Larry made a point to tell me June will look different depending on how much sun it gets. (I suppose that is true for every hosta, though!) Thank you both for sharing your beautiful hostas!

Thank you SO much for the tips, Josephine!!!

June will look totally different in sun and shade. I prefer more shade since I love the bluish green that remains in the shade. My Sagae is one of my oldest and it gets very large.

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, BUT, the 'Krossa Regal' looks to be HVX infected... The others look like nice specimens but I'd take the KR back for a refund..

Pieter

Hi Pieter. Here is another picture of it in the sun. Do you still think it is infected?

El Nino does really really well in our area (I'm in Golden Valley north of Wirth Park) and I don't recall that it was slow-growing. Mine is 7 or 8 years old, about 4 feet in diameter, and an eye-catcher for sure.

Leave lots of room for Sagae. It may get huge.

Here is El Nino in 2010, the summer that I planted it.

By 2013, it already had quite a presence (lower right corner).

I'm a little further north in Brooklyn Park. Your El Nino is gorgeous but so is your garden! What is the lovely blue one in the center of #5?

Oh, and how much sun does yours get?

That is Halcyon, parent of many wonderful hostas.

It gets filtered sun in the morning, direct sun from the west from around noon to 5 in high summer. The bed is on the south side of our lot but the back of the border is completely shaded by tardiva hydrangeas and old French lilacs, tall ferns and large hosta.

So jealous of your lovely gardens! Thanks for all the information.

Wow... what a beautiful

garden! You picked some nice plants.

what did you decide about your

KR?

nice haul ... not much you can do with your clothes on.. that is more fun .. lol ..

huge plants.. in small pots ... i would tape them up and group them together.. so the wind doesnt keep knocking them over ..

and the tape will really help .... if you decide to plant them immediately ...

ken

I found your "taping up" post last night and look forward to doing that.

Claudia, I'm keeping it. The "spotting" rubs right off.

Manyhosta, I felt so at home admiring your gardens... we have some similar perennials mixed in our beds like Filipendula, Monarda, lilac, and is that an aruncus there too? Love texture and obviously so do you. Beautiful beds!

Yes, aruncus. Thank you for your kind words. Your garden is lovely and I truly appreciate your participation here.

Wow! Lucky you---wish I had been there too! Great choices!