Another question about Winter Snow

5 years ago

I ended up with four pieces of crown from the Winter Snow I dug up. If you need the back story click the link.

Here’s the pics. Sorry about the orientation.

They seem to be doing well. The smaller ones were from a piece of crown I found in the ivy that I had missed the previous evening. I’m super happy about them doing so well and looking so much like what I want.

Here‘s the whiskey barrel they are moving into. This is the view from the back deck looking down.

So the question is how should I plant them? One in the middle and the other three in a triangle around them? Put all four in a circle about half of the radius? Cram them all together in the middle?

What I dug up was one cube about the size of a narrow shovel, so they were all part of one thing at the time. Now they are four things. I hesitate to give any one of them away because of the Southern Blight history, but I can guarantee you those crowns were clean before they went into those pots.

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hosta_maker

5 years ago

Ken is right

they grow faster in Pots where the roots can reach the edge mid season.

I layer the pot with the top third pro mix, middle bark, bottom third used chicken bedding/litter. Poo

wand watering with bubble ish setting right in the soil flushing it with water and oxygen and mixing it all up.

put it in the ground 2nd or third year and you’ve got a nice sized mound.

works good for me

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undertheoaksgardener7b
5 years ago
They look so healthy! Well done!

I would plant them in a circle, a bit closer to edge than the middle to give each one the most room to grow. By next year, it should like like a full plant. You may want to treat the soil surface with antifungals right after planting and weekly for a couple weeks, and then again next year as soon as pips first appear.
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ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
5 years ago
are there holes in the bottom of the barrel ...

what is the media in the pot?
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steve duggins(Z6a) - Central Ohio
5 years ago
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If you had one big plant and three little ones then planting the big one in the middle and the little outside would be the way to go. Usually, I like to group them together, but this is such a big plant, I think spacing them apart is better. Also, plants with faerie rings fill in the middle quite well, so planting them closer to the edge would be fine. However, I would plant them like you suggested at half the radius or slightly closer to the outside giving them all equal soil access on all sides. Is there a back and a front to this pot? Either viewing or sun exposure. Two bigs in the back, smalls in front. Or maybe the two bigs farther apart at half radius slightly forward from back and the two smalls closer and slightly toward front or even right next to each other so you have a triangle. Can you tell I over think things and waffle? Its better than the alternate which is under thinking (and more common) except for the waffling. Or is it?
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ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
5 years ago
hosta grow faster and better.. if planted in smaller pots.. and up potted as they grow.. shoving a small plant in a huge container may not be the best ...

so the simplest suggestion .. if you have good draining media in the barrel .... is to just sink the pots into the barrel ... and then up pot them and put back.. etc .. until you have some nice sized plants ...

that barrel might be a winter issue in my MI ... [it would freeze solid..and then potentially accumulate water.. creating an ice cube around the roots .. no air ] ....i dont know what that means for you in carolina ... im sure it wont freeze.. but dormant plants dont like to be sodden with cold dormant feet ...

ken
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jan_on zone 5b
5 years ago
I have a Sun Power in a barrel. When I planted it more than 10 years ago it was small and I situated it closer to one side, leaving space for some annuals. Now that it is large enough to fill the barrel by itself I wish it was in the middle. Since Winter Snow will become very large I would plant the largest one in the middle surrounded by the other three, planning to move the others to a different home in a year or two. I think a mature Winter Snow will look fabulous in a barrel!

jan
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Original Author
5 years ago
My bad, y’all. I forgot that I had gotten around to posting this. I have two pot in pot hostas. One is a small piece of Deep Blue Sea from a vole rescue. It‘s growing slow. But last year I put a smallish Regal Splendor right in a new whiskey barrel and it’s going like gang busters. I use 1/3 container mix, 1/3 pine bark fines and 1/3 native soil (AKA sand). There’s a lot of holes in the bottom and quarter inch hardware cloth stapled down to keep out voles. It drains. Our soil rarely freezes.

I’m lucky enough to be visiting my mom for Mother’s Day. When I get home I might plant one in the middle and put three in pots around it. I’ll post pics when it’s done.