You may want to let them fend for themselves with a bit more water this year. You might be surprised which do well and limit the number that need to be moved.

tj

Like tj said, even sun loving hostas have to acclimate to the light conditions in a yard, i had several last year that burned on me pretty quick so I covered with umbrellas. this year they are doing fine. also check out Rawson Lists in the Library. there is a list that will tell you which are sun tolerant.

debra

notice that placement depends on angle of sun at mid day ... so you might want to figure out best placement.. which might not be directly above ...

this is what i built for the kids back int eh day.. do you think they played up it???

its going on 20 years.. thru MI winters ...

ken

notice that placement depends on angle of sun at mid day ... so you might want to figire out best placement.. which might not be directly above ...

in this pic we are standing due south ... so its morning when i took this shot.. so presume evening is the opposite.. and mid day would be right under about one third of the way back ...

hey deb... my kids got dirty here .. what do you make to that ... we ran a hose on it from the far side.. up hill and they would wallow in the mud pit 6 to 8 hours a day ...

ken

We have 60% shade cloth over our propagation bed for seedlings. Its enough except that we should have sited it 4 feet south of where it is due to the angle of the sun at the hottest part of day. I have not had much luck with hosta in full sun. I just can't see watering that much.

Not that related to your question but I have a bright yellow hosta that is incredibly happy with lots of sun. Neighbor had a large maple that they removed that was shading it. It was rather bedraggled looking until after the tree's removal. Now it's a perfect, very large, very bright specimen. But that's the only hosta I have that is like that. The rest that are various shades of green and blue-green get quite a bit of shade in the summer.