i dont understand how the pic applies to the story .... i dont see any reversions ...

second... one of my favorite junes .. was the one i never dug up... it was half and half ... it was a plant i dragged peeps to.. to explain what was going on ...

who said you have to do anything.. do you have nothing better to do ...

my favorite garden knife.. was a DOLLAR store butcher knife .. with a big old red handle ... lose that.. lol ...

van wade captured most of his new sports.. by just repeatedly cutting off the part of the plant he didnt want to grow ...

you could go all old school on it.. sharpen a shovel.. and just take out half the plant from the center.. remove the offending part ... leaving half intact ... then separate the pieces off the rest and replant them all ...

july is root growing season ... so that would be the time to go at it all.. so the plant can replace all the lost roots ..

and dont forget to throw them on the driveway to teach them who is in charge...

take that and stick that in your ear steve. .. rotflmbo ... too much coffee.. better sign off before i get in trouble... lol ..

ken

I uncerimoiously rip out any reversions. No time for putzing and it seems to work.

tj

I don't think Hosta grow well in the ear.

I agree with tj. Just grab the group of leaves near ground level and twist while pulling. It should snap off at the crown. Lather, rinse, repeat when necessary.

I don't think Hosta grow well in the ear.

==?>>> depends on the free gifts .. lol ..

it can be as easy or as hard as you want to make it ...

but for someone low on the learning curve.. it would be a great learning experience to do it the scientific way.. like the way we all did when we were first starting ...

most if us didnt have the WWW to make us worry about all this stuff ... we just did it ... and we must have won most the time.. or we would have given up long ago ...

ken

Many thanks to each of you @ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5, @tsugajunkie z5 SE WI ♱, @steve duggins(Z6a) - Central Ohio for your extremely helpful and informative replies which you deilvered in your usual entertaining styles! I feel much more confident about not taking the digging up the whole June approach & instead using your easier Halcyon removal methods of ” sharpen shovel…take out half” or ”rip out reversions…” and ”grab…twist”. I will absolutely throw all the removed blue Halcyon leaves on my driveway to remove any doubt for them about wanting them gone. Ken, it’s a good thing that you don’t see any reversions in my June picture - that confirms I got them all cut out. I should’ve thought to post a before pic.

@djacob Z6a SE WI Hi Debra - hoped I‘d hear from you on my hosta issue! This Hosta group and other garden forums within Houzz has provided me with some pleasant hours during this awful year of isolation. The garden topics on this site have a fun group of regulars. I think you recently posted about your Halcyon sporting June as I recall that story. When I ponder digging my June up now it’s overwhelming because that bed is packed with hardy fuchsia, mini hosta & coral bells. I’d have to dig them up to get at the June & it would set all of them back for season - especially the fucshia. Maybe in the fall after things die back & if it’s not too wet here in PNW I could tackle it. I do understand it might not be best time but our winters are more temperate than where many of the Hosta forum experts seem to be. My June does look much better now with the reversions cut out. In my picture ypu can barely see the color of siding on my house - yellows & limey greens just pop against it so i favor the varigated plants. i have Acuba ’Gold Strike’ along north side of house. I’ve liked hosta for a long time since discovering mini Blue Mouse Ears but had no clue about how many kinds -over 6,000- or about the sports & reversions. & how fast & large these plants grow here in PNW.😱 This was not a topic in the perennials section of Master Gardener classes I took as soon as I retired a few years ago!. I donated an overgrown Abiqua ‘Drinking Gourd' to the Master Gardeners for annual plant sale & their dig team came to get it. It was getting so large & so fast that i didn’t think I could dig it up & my husband rolled his eyes when I pointed at it! My yard doesn’t have any space left so something comes in, something goes out. Some of my paniculata hydrangeas now live in some neighboring yards!