Planting a hosta garden HELP

Just relax and go ahead and plant! You really won't know which ones will "take" so let them do their thing. Once the plants that do survive are established, you can then fill in around them, pull what you don't like, etc.

I'd suggest creating a curved dry creek bed thru that beautiful area, maybe with a wooden walk bridge, bordering it with large rocks. Plant the tallest growing hostas around the trees and the smaller ones along the pathway. Once everything is established then you can relocate and redesign the area to your liking. You can add an old bench with a tall bird feeder off center as a focal point. Maybe a bird bath too. It's a lovely area. Looks inviting already. Have fun and best of luck.

Best bet is to Lay them out as you think, take a look at the overall effect, Maybe move a few, until you Are happy with the effect. Then Start to Plant them Up...... Don't forget to water well!

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What a gorgeous spot! Plant big ones away from path, toward center of bed. Blues need the most shade, so they can be in shadiest spots. Those with white and yellow can take more sunlight. Don't plant a tiny one next to a large, it'll be swamped. I do like to plant contrasting colors, to vary the look and please the eye. It looks as if you can divide some of the hosta, so you'll eventually end up with more plants. Leave room between, because they will expand and fill in over time. I would eventually add some hostas with white and yellow variations, or the bright yellow-green, (a gorgeous one is called Fragrant Bouquet), and some ferns, which will naturalize among the hostas. In that gorgeous shady spot, consider adding a bleeding heart (dicentra spectabilis) plant or two. They bloom early, then the plant dies back, hidden by the hosta plants.

There are several hosta websites online, where you can see pictures & descriptions of hostas, and find nurseries that sell them. Pay attention to spacing information, so they have room for ultimate size. Beware of coming down with hosta-itis, whose symptoms are being unable to stop buying and planting hostas, of which I have a severe case. Good luck and have fun watching your garden grow.

Hosta attracts snails so if you like snails go ahead. I would plant loriope about 3 - 4 ft apart since they multiply like rabbits and have to be thinned if not each yr. then every 2-3 yrs. Got rid of my hosta because of snails.