These plants have never turned out good for me but my local nursery people said these hostas are for Florida. Oh, notice the white flower? I hope I will be able to post 3 beautiful hosta plants in a few months.
Kathy R, all I can tell you is hostas don't grow well in Florida. Seems to me the rest of the country has beautiful hostas. My problem wasn't something eating it - it was plant suicide.
Dee W, I have one little hosta that I bought a year ago. The three on the pic are new and were created for Florida type of weather so I am going to give them a try. Thanks for the support Dee - I will probably need it later.
They just have to be in the shade or filtered sun to do well. Recently went to the Pew Gardens in downtown Orlando, FL and they had a ton of hostas all doing very well. The gardens are free for viewing on Mondays......nicely done
Handy, I already saved my only one that was in full shade and did poorly. Moved the tiny thing to morning sun only & it is doing very well. That is where I will put the 3 small new ones I just purchased. I've been to Pew Gardens & love them but they are EXPERTS so everything should work for them.
Yea but YOU can have caladiums all year long!! Geez, if you can keep Caladiums going I'd think Hostas should be a piece of cake!! Since you bought a "designer" variety, specifically engineered for Fl. climate, hopefully these will meet & exceed your expectations!! This is the first year I haven't had Caladiums in container gardens on my front porch! sniff sniff :~( Be sure & keep an eye out for slugs - they'll riddle your hostas if they get a chance!!
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Oh, Sherrie - gotta tell ya - I was moving a few empty flower pots away from the garage wall yesterday, spraying junk & debris and just guess what hopped out of it's hiding place?? Sure was a fast little fella cause I couldn't find him after the initial sighting!!
Probably a good thing cause I dunno WHAT I would have done w/him if I had caught him!! Actually, that was something I wondered about when we started our project was just exactly how do you keep these guys at home once you get them???
Susan S, I probably am not bothered by slugs because I have slug predators like snakes, salamanders, beetles, crows, ducks, geese, toads, foxes, frogs, raccoons & other wildlife to handle them.
Re: Hoppy - you should whip up his favorite dish: cooked lettuce & aphids and give him some water in a nice shady area far from your bedroom.
Sherrie - yeah . . . . .BUT, you have an entire wildlife refuge at your disposal!!! The birds don't seem very interested in controlling the slug population. My hostas may be too close to civilization - located in flower bed directly off front porch. I did rescue a little lizard of some sort the other day. Miss Cleo was vigorously playing w/something on the ground and that's what it was. I picked it up - right behind it's head (NO BITING) and put it among the foilage of a hoya on the
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front porch Probably shoulda put it among the hostas!! Don't know where it wandered off to . . . No raccoons, ducks, geese, foxes ;<(
Susan S, you can have a wildlife refuge at your disposal. Just invite the wildlife with water, food, shelter. Thhhhhhhat's all it takes.
If you want to become a wildlife refuge with a sign so the wildlife knows you care then you can pay a few bucks for an exceptionally good looking well made sign. I bought the sign because it benefited wildlife but I know the wildlife really prefers water, food, shelter. Signs don't really matter.
Hosta lover here. I planted a hosta garden under a big pine tree on the shady side of my house. Even in summer I rip the plant apart and plant little bits of root. They will take a little sprinkle of Osmocote and next spring Voile. Hosta Heaven.
Shabby Daze, I'm wating, waiting for sucess with hostas. I do believe I finally have the right hostas for Florida. Time will tell. Why don't you post a picture here and make me feel bad? I can handle it.
Sherrie - waiting for Hosta's to do their thing is a lot like watching paint dry or grass growing!! It ain't gonna happen as long as you're staring at it!! LOL Hosta's seem to be a slow grower but each year come back bigger ' better than the season before. Now, with you being in Fl. and all and don't really have the experience of 4 distinct seasons (well, THAT was true until 2011-12) like we NORTHERNERS do, it's hard to say what your H's will do.
Sherrie, I will be watching with interest what happens with your hostas as that's a plant that we've always been told won't grow here. The times they are a changing!
I think you and HandyAndy meant Leu Gardens: a great place for garden inspiration.
Oh, Sherrie - gotta tell ya - I was moving a few empty flower pots away from the garage wall yesterday, spraying junk & debris and just guess what hopped out of it's hiding place?? Sure was a fast little fella cause I couldn't find him after the initial sighting!!
Probably a good thing cause I dunno WHAT I would have done w/him if I had caught him!! Actually, that was something I wondered about when we started our project was just exactly how do you keep these guys at home once you get them???
Re: Hoppy - you should whip up his favorite dish: cooked lettuce & aphids and give him some water in a nice shady area far from your bedroom.
If you want to become a wildlife refuge with a sign so the wildlife knows you care then you can pay a few bucks for an exceptionally good looking well made sign. I bought the sign because it benefited wildlife but I know the wildlife really prefers water, food, shelter. Signs don't really matter.
I think you and HandyAndy meant Leu Gardens: a great place for garden inspiration.