lol... on the driveway ...

at a min ...... you need to dig it up.. and find out whats going on with the roots ...

if you move it or replant it.. is up to you ...

ken

Are there trees nearby? Size? Type? When this happens in my yard it's usually a sign that roots from a nearby tree are choking the hosta.

There is a pecan tree there but it hasn't affected the other hosta. I am going to dig and move it. I want it to get huge and I have several other hosta beds. The only negative is that its present location is in front of the resting bench so I can enjoy it in the evenings. Each bed has a comfortable place to sit and enjoy the garden but my relocation area is not in direct view from a bench. :c( It will get more morning sun so that will be a positive and not as much competition from tree roots. I have psyched myself up to relocate it and put a large blue lotus shaped pot that has a mini water garden in its old spot. Gardening is never done here--it seems that I am always moving stuff around, dividing, rooting and planting. I love being retired!

) The other hostas in the bed are getting larger and more eyes. The bed is about 4 years old.

==>>> yeah.. thats why i figured its not a general tree root issue.. it should effect them all .. unless the trees are working on that .. lol ...

so im back to digging up the SS and finding out ...

ken

I have the exact same thing happening to a Sum and Substance in my small side garden. I don't want to dig it up. Guess I need to.

My guess is grubs ate at the roots, but I won't know even if I dig it up, will I? Another that I bought at the same time is in the big hosta garden in the back, and it's HUGE. So something bad is happening below ground to this shrinking one.

Divide it. What have you got to lose?

Sometimes hostas reach their maximum size and come in smaller the following year. If this is the case, divide it. The new clumps will start getting bigger.

I dug him up and his roots looked great. I don't know why he stopped getting bigger leaves. He divided himself when I was shaking the dirt off so now I have 5 starts to plant. One of them will surely land in a happy spot. A big thunderstorm/downpour came up after getting him out of the ground so I stuck them in a little peanut pond with the tree frog babies until they can be planted tomorrow. We needed the rain so it was great to get 1/2 inch of rain from the storm.

Did you have the big freeze a lot of us had in April? My S&S froze to the ground and came back with half leaves and distorted leaves. The second flush looks fine, but the plants are about 25% smaller than last year.

They've been shrinking a little anyway. The bed used to get quite a bit of sun 15 years ago, but the oak trees have grown up and now they're in almost full shade.

So jealous of your rain. We had a forecast of up to 5 inches - got about .1.

We didn't get the April freeze, but we had this freaky cold in Nov. and it messed up a lot of my spring flowering shrubs that set buds early. I thought it killed my 6 ft edgwarthia bush, nipped off all the flowers but it did leaf out this spring. It is first to flower after the winter honeysuckle and I missed it. The blueberries have been the most productive this year and my rubber snakes have kept the birds away. I have had to water twice so far but we have been getting enough thundershowers along the way so far.

One thing that could have happened is it didn’t get enough water. i Have three Winter Snows along the edge of my gold fish pond All have been planted 10 years or more. Last fall we had a drought for two months and I hardly had a chance to water. The only one of the three which didn’t reduce in size is the one at the ponds spillway. Rest got smaller. Giant Hosta need a lot of water to keep the crown healthy. much more than the small or medium sized hostas. If you have a really wet place in yard put a start there.