Your garden is perfect. It is rewarding you for your strong recovery.

I hope it opens up for you too! My plantaginea looks OK, but I don't see any blooms coming. Today was a nice warm day but for the next few days we are going to have temperatures around 60 in the day and the 40's at night. Oh no! I don't like that!

do you think it could be more available water ... the heat of the day not sucking it all out of the soil at root depth??? .. cool nights ... etc???

ken

Thank you utog, it feels like a fitting reward.

newhostalady, I was not expecting a flower at all since it’s first year, I couldn’t believe my eyes.

ken, you are right about all of that..... I have kept the “sun” hostas watered very well this summer. And it is cooling at night, 60s mostly, so with sun, mild temperatures and plenty of water, I am praying it will bloom........🙏🏽

debra

I will just add on here rather than start another post......

but craziness continues in my yard. Now Fire Island is blooming....... it hasn’t bloomed since I moved it to its current spot. I think it was buried to deep when moved. I planned to reset it this summer, but with my surgery, a lot of things didn’t get done. Here’s a pic on 9/23/2020

Bump to move up

Now Marilyn, 9/23/2020

second late bloom on Wide Brim

My old So Sweet is putting up a scape. It finished blooming a month ago. Now, its sending out new flushes of leaves and putting up a scape. It's been sending out new flushes of leaves all summer, but it's nearly October!

How odd! It's never done this before.

bkay

I guess we can consider it a gift!!

debra

am having the same. Some plants with active seedpods suddenly putting up another scape. I would love to know what is behind this mechanism. We had so much heat and dry weather this summer... I would love to improve my scape setting if I can.

I am still waiting for Plantaginea to bloom. Gonna get to 39 tonight........🙏🏽

Here’s the update for my crazy bloomers.......

We are having warm (75-80 degrees) temperatures this week so I hope this will get Plantaginea to open up. No frosts yet and none in sight in the next several days. 🤞🏽

debra

They are looking great Debra! Fingers crossed for your plantaginea to have the time to bloom.

Ooh, I hope you get some Plantagenet blooms!

Good luck, Debra! Waiting for good news!

this is the last on this post

Wide Brim with its two blooms

Fire Island with its three blooms

Plantaginea came in three days ago, in sugar water, but she’s not going to bloom

Now I am pretty sure Plantaginea will bloom next year, hopefully much earlier.

debra

I lied, this is what I saw on an already cut back Sagae.

This makes me happy!