Beautiful Hosta everyone. I didn't even like them at all until I starting visiting this site. Now I have a few that just brighten my day and color up my yard)

I had a RH for a couple of years and it just kept fading away. I dug out, threw it away.........beyond driveway treatment. I just had a bare spot there last year. But yesterday I noticed a small blue leaf arising in the same spot, hmmmmmm....... do you think it’s resurrected itself?

debra

Oh, and I got the payment to work on the Hostas-store link you posted. Got my Luna Moth and Brother Stefan today! Thanks for the link!

Yesterday. I got home too late tonight, but now I am enjoying yesterday’s photos.

Baptisia Lunar Eclipse,

Tokudama (background left) is more blue than Deep Blue Sea (foreground),

Nigrescens and Catherine (or Touch of Class),

and first seed pod on my Jack in the Pulpit!

TGIF

Light pink azalea, the last to bloom for spring

Dressed to Kill with flower bud 5/21/21

Elegans, lovely World Cup, Sun Kissed, Cutting Edge

Bletilla striata Gotemba Stripes with Sweet Sunshine, variegated hydrangea, and background Paradise Glory

ADG,

Sharp Dressed Man,

Baptisia Lunar Eclipse,

and Tuff Stuff hydrangea

First photo is for Miles: Tokudama aureonebulosa with Rhino Hide @3 and Heat Wave at 4-6

Elegans is beautiful

Climax with Royal Standard, Fragrant Bouquet, Blue Perfection

Dinky Donna, and planter with Golden Scepter and Heather Hill

Saturday

Afterglow with Barbie-pink-colored azalea in the background

Inniswood

Fog Light, Tokudama, and background Deep Blue Sea

Little Honey hydrangea with first bloom

Mike Shadrack with flower bud

Kiwi Full Monty, Grecian Vase and Summer Squall

Snake Eyes in the daffodils (think snake in the grass)

Striptease

Saturday morning as an adult

Tea Time with Northern maidenhair fern

Spilt Milk

Blueberries

Happy dog

After the late frosts, my hydrangeas are rewarding my panicked attention.

Yay, me!

Unruly Child,

Tokudama with bud,

my serenity corner,

and Paradise Glory

Guys, I love hostas.

Mango Salsa,

Tokudama aureonebulosa leaf shot,

bud on Spilt Milk,

and lovely Journey’s End

utog..believe it or not my macrophyllas have flowerheads!..as soon as they leafed out (rare!) we had snow..I ignored their damaged leaves and the flowers survived!..

the hawk left a nasty mess..

NW, that’s awesome!

utog..thanks!..only a fellow gardener understands!..Lol..

Utog, everything is really, really looking good!! You Have an amazing Spilt Milk. I would think the coloration is difficult to maintain. I always LOVE seeing your garden.

debra

All your plants are looking so good and healthy. I'm glad you showed Sunset Grooves. I got one last year but half came back solid green this year. :-/ I'll be waiting awhile on that one. .....I like the way your Hover Craft holds its leaves.

So many of you are successful at having really good looking hostas in pots!

Sentimental Journey for first 2,

Orange Marmalade with bud,

and Mike Shadrack hosta with bud

Trouble in the first photo, as poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans, AKA rhus)

Mophead hydrangea flowers open in an array of colors.

Asclepias purpurascens

Asclepias purpurascens

utog..oh no!..poison ivy..I had it near the property line thanks to a neighbor..I confess I went over the line when I ripped it out..

I'm jealous of your hydrangeas..so beautiful..

Which plant in the photo is the ivy????

Love your Orange Marmalade——inspired me to buy mine! :-)

debra

Debra, most of the green in the first picture (trouble) is poison ivy, except some wild strawberry on bottom right.

Midnight Oil on its slug perch,

Mike Shadrack hosta keeps getting lovelier,

Tokudama!

“Rogue Wave” (a blue Hawaii sport I found in my garden)

Vulcan in part shade to part sun,

Vulcan in part sun to full sun,

Blue Tooth among friends,

and Touch of Class (or Catherine)

The blue hour

Mystic Star

The maple tree garden in the delta

Foreground Touch of Class and Summer Serenade

Secret Loves with Electrocution and Deja Blu

Regal Splendor,

Krossa Regal,

Raspberry Sundae,

and Diva hydrangea (part of "Let's Dance" series)

debra, if you have to ask about the ivy, count your blessings.

Tokudama and rhino hide how divine. The hydrangeas are simply gorgeous. Mine are just leafing out but I am limited in the types I can grow since my area gets too cold for some of the mop heads.

Utog, I had a Raspberry Sundae but it just faded away. :-(

debra

Debra, I bought my Raspberry Sundae about 3 years ago after I failed to resist it at Plant Delights Nursery. I saw a beautiful one for sale, but left it there. I was sure it would be a dud and was determined not to try it. Next day, I drove back over and bought it. Next year, I divided it to share with my MIL. I was certain that at least one half would die. 2 years later, hers is luscious and mine is growing fine. I think I got a good one. Glad I went back for it.

My MIL’s Raspberry Sundae, the other half of mine.

May 29, 2021

Mophead hydrangea

Camelot, Great Expectations, Cup of Joy with background Dream Queen.

Touch of Class and Summer Serenade

Waterslide

5/29/21

Tick Tock with buds, next to Dream Queen

Dinner Mint (next to same Dream Queen)

"Sportsball" (a Striptease sport I found at a local nursery, sold as Striptease for $9.99) next to Lime Ripple and Gemini Moon. Photobomb left corner is Risky Business.

Coast to Coast wtih Blue Perfection and tiny Winter Frost.

Saturday morning

My coffee.

Striptease with ferns and Tricyrtis

Dance with Me. I fell in love with this one in PDN's Juniper Level Botanical garden several years ago. A fellow hostaphile who happened to be attending the garden lecture saw my failure to locate the tag. He got down and poked around the base of the giant specimen and found the "Dance with Me" tag. I thanked him, and then went home to find this baby on the internet. It GLOWS!

Asarum Irish Spring is shiny.

Hosta breeders, my Cup of Grace is throwing an early bloom. Should I pollinate it, and with what?

Halcyon and Ripple Effect

Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa)

Lakeside Paisley Print with Miniskirt and Grand Tiara visible.

Pilgrim surrounded by School Mouse, Munchkin Fire, and Tattoo.

Mouse Trap

Earth Angel. The drought has hit the wide margins on some of these leaves hard, but this one is still good.

Lacecap hydrangea that my MIL gathered as a clipping about 10 years ago from Alexandria VA

Yesterday we visited my MIL's home for a swim, everybody fully vaccinated.

My MIL’s Sugar Plum,

“Green Devil” (from me),

Coast to Coast,

and Spartacus

UTOG, what’s the hosta in the pic below the butterfly weed? I love it!

IndianaG, Lakeside Paisley Print

What an eye feast!! Thank you for this beautiful post!!

NW, lol! It looked like a screech owl to me!

utog..I was trying to remember this animal..thought of it today..

Yes! I love tarsiers and lorises!
Here is an Eastern screen owl. How I wish I had one of these in my yard. They are voracious vole hunters.

https://abcbirds.org/bird/eastern-screech-owl/

They have the cutest trill. They shiver while they trill. They are little owls.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADtk37HFmq4

Flowers!

The flowers on Mike Shadrack hosta are opening.

Orange Marmalade

Elegans

Brother Stefan (the one grown in a pot).

5/30/21

Parisian Silk on a cloudy day.

Blue Hawaii with flower bud

Glory Hallelujah with flower bud

Spotted wintergreen, a native plant that lives in my yard.