@@FlockFingerLakes *CORRECTION* Can we give props to Sander’s filming and Summer’s editing skills?! 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼 They have up’d their game with the music selection and funny cuts! (Fixed it! 😉✨👌🏼)
❤❤❤ Rewatching this Hosta tour in May 2024. Hostas are one of my favorite plants. There is a place in York, PA called Hosta Hideaway. You might want to consider an interview tour with them? Thanks for a great tour of this man's collection.
I can’t express how much I enjoyed this video, as I have a love for Hostas and I’m building a collection. I love the uniqueness of the Abiqua Drinking Gourd and the Hostas with textured leaves.
He has a heavenly Hosta heaven. He is really a smart man to choose low maintenance plants. He is so kind to have shade for them. Some here get too much sun despite the shadow of a building. The varieties he has acquired, are a masterpiece. I would love the ones with fragrant flowers. I have one which came from another balcony or bird?? It came up in Autumn. I love the lines on the leaves. Could it be kept alive in the house? Thanks for the visit to another fascinating neighbor of the Flock area. 🤗 A big Howdy and hugs to Bob Smith for sharing his gorgeous 'Grandpa' s Garden' with all of us!
Glad to see someone appreciates the hosta flowers :). In Chinese, Hosta has a beautiful name 玉簪 (yùzān). The term 玉 (yù) means "jade," and 簪 (zān) means "hairpin." The delicate, elegant shape of the flower and its pristine color evoke the appearance of a jade hairpin. It often appeared in classical Chinese literature, symbolizing purity, elegance, and modesty due to its delicate and refined appearance.
Hostas are one of the easiest, toughest plants. They are real survivors. I love them and the varieties shown here are quite a collection. I wrote down a couple of names and will look into them. Bob Smith's garden is lovely...especially the area under the deck. Love the textures. The deer love them, unfortunately...and slugs, too. I use a deer repellent spray on hostas...so far, so good. If you have a small garden, it's not bad or too expensive. A garden as large as Bob's, it would be expensive. Thank you, Summer and Bob, for sharing this tour. . :)
I've never had much of a slug problem although I do see them on occasion. I do have a lot of birds and skunks, raccoons, and opossums that come to my yard and I'm wondering if it's them that help to control my slug population.
I love these older people who have long spanning hobbys the sheer amount of work and patience is so inspiring. Also i love hostas especially the really big ones like Empress Wu, they make a colder climate garden bit more tropical looking.
Bob has inspired me to plant Hostas, I've already got plans on where to place them. Thank you to his niece Laura for suggesting that his garden should be visited by this channel. Beautiful property and garden.
My favourite is the hosta, as in ALL of the hostas. they’re such a fabulous plant to grow, I keep expanding my collection every year so who knows, maybe in time I’ll become Canada’s version of the ‘Hosta Man’. I enjoyed his story about the garden centre telling him about the mythical hosta guy, and recognizing that the story was about him. Another wonderful video. Thanks kindly.
Hostas are the best low maintenance plant. I had a blue one in a bucket all season through winter and just left it there… bloomed the last few weeks and looks great. They are so hearty I love them.
Have a good and hardy variety of Hostas in my garden. Here in Sweden we have a really long winter with frozen ground since the beginning of November this year and have had -20°C last week for days and now we have 10cm of snow wich probably stays untill april next year. The Hostas tolerates it well. Have a yellow hosta that looks like "Hosta Sun Power" from the garden you visited here but I have no nametag for it. This one is definitely one of my favourites. Got a new series of Hostas since 2 years ago called "Hosta Color Glory" and they comes in many varietys from blue to minty green and varietys and sizes with dark green and yellow leafs and I just love them! Thank you so much for sharing! It's a pleasure to follow you everytime you share on RUclips.
It can get almost -30C / (-21F) here and you definitely got to be hardy as all hell to survive that. They really are great plants to provide such flexibility. The slugs and deer love them here, and you probably noticed some slug damage on his. But I think that comes with hostas. Not sure if you have the same pest pressures out where you are in Sweden! And thanks for your mentioning of other cultivars!
Great video Summer. It's interesting how you find people to interview. I totally love hostas. They come in so many shades of green, yellow, and white. I love their texture as well. But best of all is like what you said, benign neglect. They take care of themselves and I'd say they are the most hands-off, reliable, and long-lived plant to come back year after year. Note the hostas next to his house which he said had been there 25 years! Talk about getting your money's worth. I have a favourite that has very long blue-gray leaves but I have no idea of its name. I love that I can divide them to spread around the garden or give away.
Love hostas! They are the golden pothos of the yard for me. Easy. Low maintenance and I think beautiful. I literally will dig up chop in half with shovel and just sit the pile of dirt on top of the soil and the hostas will root themselves in NO DIG. and the pollinators LOVE. Always full of bees in my yard. Southern yard staple here in zone 7. Great interview.🪴✌🏻
Hostas are nice! They are beautiful with their different textures and shades of green. They are also tough. I divided and replanted a bed once and grabbed the wrong fertilizer so I used weed and feed! It did not harm the hosta at all. Thanks for a nice tour.
nice to take the time to appreciate hostas, they are so tough it's genuinely surprising, a couple years ago there was construction done outside, and one got literally split into pieces in midsummer during a drought and was kinda just shoved back in adjacent to the stone, but a tropical storm a few days later blasted all the soil off of it, and yet next year it was 4 feet wide, unbothered. in all the like 26 years though they really just sit there not trying to invade anything out of their space
I don’t care how basic folks think hostas are…I’ll always love them and their flowers. Deer are a major issue though, but I keep trying to fend them off. Dry soil under trees also generally doesn’t let them grow to their full potential unless you irrigate.
I love hostas I have 12 I love them all. I’ve never seen a hosta garden that big, what a beauty. I couldn’t tell ya which one I liked best. They were all beautiful.
I live in Scotland and love Hostas because they are as tuff as old boots and no matter what you do with them or the weather they come back looking fabulous , the slugs are just the main pest but hey ho just one of these things.👏👏🏴🇺🇸
I just started growing hostas this year as we moved to a house mostly in shade. I am just learning about shade plants and I fell in love with the hostas. I have 28 in total and 2 of them are the same kind with the rest being different. It was great seeing some of the same ones I have and how big they will become. I have one called “White Feather” which is all white and I have had to move it three times to find the best location. It does not like any sun at all. Anyway, thank you for all the great information about hostas! P.S. my favourite so far is “Canadian Blue”.
I am a hosta lover as well. Our property has a hill that divides upper and lower portions and gets a modicum of sun during various times of day. I have planted lots of hosta and astilbe as well as a few shrubs and just love it.
Funny thing , most people keep them in the shade .. most of mine are in full sun & they do great .. been that way for over 10 + years But I do have a few under a tree in the back yard . They are the easiest plants & can be divided & make 100s more ! That’s a great thing
All my gardening friends including myself grow our hostas in pots. We live in red cedar forest and the cedar roots won't let anything grow beneath them. I've managed to grow some pretty ones in pots grouped around a water bowl and some on my shady deck. My current favs are Guacamole and Brim Cup. So pretty.
@Flock Finger Lakes they filled the whole front yard of my townhouse under a large flowering crabapple tree. When you'd come out the front door you would smell a strong honeysuckle. I was going to replace the crabapple tree with a variegated redbud Carolina sweetheart.
You should come to WNY. We have the “Hosta Man” at Smug Creek in North Boston, NY. Mike Shadrack. He is originally from England. President of the Western New York Hosta Society. He writes the Hosta Books. We love our Hosta here. You would love our Annual Garden Walk in Buffalo, NY too Hosta are “shade tolerant”, they still need some sun
I love love hostas❤️I can see why he gave up on the slugs, the cost could really add up☹️Because he has so many. If I were a family member , he would know my gifts to him would always be slug bait. Those bug holes would drive me nuts🤪sweet man to show us around. I just toured a garden and they had lots of the new tiny hostas, planted in groups, in beautiful stone bowls and I wanted to bring each home with me. So very very different and as beautiful as a flower arrangement!
Oh wow! That's such a beautiful shade plant, and I never knew there were so very many varieties 😍 I really fell in love with some of these, can't wait to have my own garden where I can plant them ❤❤❤
Hummingbirds go after hosta flowers in my yard. Snails and deer like the leaves; I’ve been tempted to remove them for this reason. For now, I use Slugo to minimize leaf damage.
Just curious how you kept up with all the names and which plant they go with? I imagine this video had tons of editing involved. I enjoyed it very much.
We try to make notes of the names as we film just so we have them afterwards for editing. Bob has a whole notebook with names and all the plants numbered.
@@FlockFingerLakes I know that I video the tags as I am going along, or more often take photos of the tag as I photo the plant. It is a lazy way of keeping track.
I am just learning about Hostas this summer. Could they be grown in the house like a tropical, and what about collecting the seed and growing new plants from seeds.
I really enjoyed this video it was incredible interesting and informative, thank you so much for the garden tour i like the plant water and then let nature take its course..
Of the hostas I currently grow, 'Guacamole' is a very popular variety that not only has nice leaf color but is also quite fragrant as well! It's a sweet, floral scent that reminds me of Ipomoea alba's scent.
I have a few kinds of hosta but lost the tags so don’t know what they are. This video makes me want more! I really like the ones with a small strip of color in the middle. I sautéed hosta sprouts this spring and they were tasty!
Oh I'm a hosta lover. I wa swooning at this tour. I'm considering growing my hostas indoors. I love their ability to survive in shade. I had one hosta originally and it seems t have different varieties off it.
I planted some Hostas last year and the deers gave them a bald shave I was furious my neighbor told me to use cayenne pepper just sprinkle all over they won’t hurt the plant works like a charm or epsom salt now my hostas are happy 😅
What a wonderful collection! Solomon's plume would be the native alternative to support more insects. Also, in my travels and greets. Someone is working on a cupped hosta that gathers the rain. Then the weight of rain water makes the plant bow to its weight to release the water. Then stand back up and do the motion all over again!
Hi, you've said several times in the vidéo that hostas are very contained, not spreading etc. I'd like to know if there are varieties more spreading than others. I'm thinking of planting a lot of them for eating purpose. Any advise about varieties for taste, amount of leaves, speed of multiplication and so on would be highly welcome! Thanks!
I continue to see people here in N. Georgia try to plant Hosta in full, hot sun. I know they're advertised as "sun tolerant" but they always look burnt. Please southerners, give them some afternoon sun protection! I have a few that get a little afternoon sun but not all day! Sadly, it happens with big leaf Hydrangeas too. I moved from up north, the South is different! Lilacs don't do well down here, very sad. This fall, several of my Hosta sent up repeat flower stalks while the foliage was dying back, anyone else notice this? I've also started leaving the spent flower stalks, it supports the small orb weaver spiders. They can weave, eat & grow there. Natural pest control! Dekays snakes stay small & love to eat slugs, I protect them so I don't have to battle the slug damage. Nice collection sir!
I have or had just five different kinds of hosta but the deer ate them down to the ground last night. I’ve had hostas here for 20+ years and deer never touched them. Our part of the country is not dry this year so what has happened ?!? At least I got to look at someone else’s hostas tonight.
SLUG KILLER: Cut head of garlic in half, boil all of it in 1 gallon water, 5 minutes. Let cool & strain. This is a concentrate, to be mixed 1/4 cup to 1 gallon water. Pour over hosta & the ground beneath. Garlic has an electrocuting effect on the slugs' central nervous system, they oversecrete their mucous covering & die instantly. This has worked miraculously in my gardens where I used to have lots of slugs, but seldom see them anymore.
Favorites of Mine seen today was Kiwi Full Monty (have that one), Guardian Angel and On Stage. Other favorites of mine not seen are: June, Island Breeze and Autumn Delight, because they last all the way up to a Hard Frost. Guacamole and stained Glass are nice too. Oh, and don’t forget Patriot! Can you tell I love Hosta?
‘Remember Me’ - was named after a breast cancer survivor that eventually lost her battle with cancer; it is such a beautiful hosta. Also, ‘Cherry Berry,’ has seed pods that turn cherry red in a sunnier location. Phenomenal collection shown here. A few pet ducks are good at controlling your slugs in the hosta and daylily garden. There are larger slug resistant varieties of hosta.
hi can you please give me the name of the hosta at 10.14 ?. I dont think that it is "midnigt at the oasis". (my english is old i'm sorry... ) from france. Dominique Mortier
I have Hosta 'Halcyon' and 'Blue Cadet' in my garden. These blue leafed varieties have tougher foliage which seems to be not as tasty to slugs than other hostas.
I love Hostas! So this was a reward of seeing all those varieties. Just special to have all of them in one garden.
Can we give props to Sander’s filming/editing skills?! 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼 Music selection and funny cuts have also up’d his game!
Sander is camera, but I'll take credit for the editing. Sander stepped away from editing over a year ago now! - SRO
@@FlockFingerLakes *CORRECTION* Can we give props to Sander’s filming and Summer’s editing skills?! 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼 They have up’d their game with the music selection and funny cuts! (Fixed it! 😉✨👌🏼)
❤❤❤ Rewatching this Hosta tour in May 2024. Hostas are one of my favorite plants. There is a place in York, PA called Hosta Hideaway. You might want to consider an interview tour with them? Thanks for a great tour of this man's collection.
This is by far one of my most favourite episode and I have watched it thrice at least!!!
I can’t express how much I enjoyed this video, as I have a love for Hostas and I’m building a collection. I love the uniqueness of the Abiqua Drinking Gourd and the Hostas with textured leaves.
The textured, bullate leaves are definitely a favorite of mine too.
He has a heavenly Hosta heaven. He is really a smart man to choose low maintenance plants. He is so kind to have shade for them. Some here get too much sun despite the shadow of a building. The varieties he has acquired, are a masterpiece. I would love the ones with fragrant flowers. I have one which came from another balcony or bird?? It came up in Autumn. I love the lines on the leaves. Could it be kept alive in the house? Thanks for the visit to another fascinating neighbor of the Flock area. 🤗 A big Howdy and hugs to Bob Smith for sharing his gorgeous 'Grandpa' s Garden' with all of us!
Glad to see someone appreciates the hosta flowers :). In Chinese, Hosta has a beautiful name 玉簪 (yùzān). The term 玉 (yù) means "jade," and 簪 (zān) means "hairpin." The delicate, elegant shape of the flower and its pristine color evoke the appearance of a jade hairpin. It often appeared in classical Chinese literature, symbolizing purity, elegance, and modesty due to its delicate and refined appearance.
I like the mellow old "hosta guy" lol....good interview :)
Hostas are one of the easiest, toughest plants. They are real survivors. I love them and the varieties shown here are quite a collection. I wrote down a couple of names and will look into them. Bob Smith's garden is lovely...especially the area under the deck. Love the textures. The deer love them, unfortunately...and slugs, too. I use a deer repellent spray on hostas...so far, so good. If you have a small garden, it's not bad or too expensive. A garden as large as Bob's, it would be expensive. Thank you, Summer and Bob, for sharing this tour. . :)
I've never had much of a slug problem although I do see them on occasion. I do have a lot of birds and skunks, raccoons, and opossums that come to my yard and I'm wondering if it's them that help to control my slug population.
Every new video from your channel just makes me genuinely happy. Thank you ❤️💯
You're most welcome.
I love the flamboyance of the leaves. I am so glad you were able to get a tour of such a lovely garden. Thank you for sharing it!
I love these older people who have long spanning hobbys the sheer amount of work and patience is so inspiring. Also i love hostas especially the really big ones like Empress Wu, they make a colder climate garden bit more tropical looking.
Bob has inspired me to plant Hostas, I've already got plans on where to place them. Thank you to his niece Laura for suggesting that his garden should be visited by this channel. Beautiful property and garden.
Love the sounds when it comes to the hostas under the deck lok
My favourite is the hosta, as in ALL of the hostas. they’re such a fabulous plant to grow, I keep expanding my collection every year so who knows, maybe in time I’ll become Canada’s version of the ‘Hosta Man’. I enjoyed his story about the garden centre telling him about the mythical hosta guy, and recognizing that the story was about him. Another wonderful video. Thanks kindly.
I'm sure there is a Hosta Man and Woman in every town....we just don't know about it yet!
Such a gorgeous collection
Love my hostas. They are magic in the garden
Hostas are the best low maintenance plant. I had a blue one in a bucket all season through winter and just left it there… bloomed the last few weeks and looks great. They are so hearty I love them.
Have a good and hardy variety of Hostas in my garden.
Here in Sweden we have a really long winter with frozen ground since the beginning of November this year and have had -20°C last week for days and now we have 10cm of snow wich probably stays untill april next year. The Hostas tolerates it well.
Have a yellow hosta that looks like "Hosta Sun Power" from the garden you visited here but I have no nametag for it.
This one is definitely one of my favourites.
Got a new series of Hostas since 2 years ago called "Hosta Color Glory" and they comes in many varietys from blue to minty green and varietys and sizes with dark green and yellow leafs and I just love them! Thank you so much for sharing! It's a pleasure to follow you everytime you share on RUclips.
It can get almost -30C / (-21F) here and you definitely got to be hardy as all hell to survive that. They really are great plants to provide such flexibility. The slugs and deer love them here, and you probably noticed some slug damage on his. But I think that comes with hostas. Not sure if you have the same pest pressures out where you are in Sweden! And thanks for your mentioning of other cultivars!
Great video Summer. It's interesting how you find people to interview. I totally love hostas. They come in so many shades of green, yellow, and white. I love their texture as well. But best of all is like what you said, benign neglect. They take care of themselves and I'd say they are the most hands-off, reliable, and long-lived plant to come back year after year. Note the hostas next to his house which he said had been there 25 years! Talk about getting your money's worth.
I have a favourite that has very long blue-gray leaves but I have no idea of its name. I love that I can divide them to spread around the garden or give away.
Thank you for all that you do! You are a inspiration to me. Love your content
Thank you for watching and writing in. Glad it's inspirational!
Love hostas! They are the golden pothos of the yard for me. Easy. Low maintenance and I think beautiful. I literally will dig up chop in half with shovel and just sit the pile of dirt on top of the soil and the hostas will root themselves in NO DIG. and the pollinators LOVE. Always full of bees in my yard. Southern yard staple here in zone 7. Great interview.🪴✌🏻
Hostas are nice! They are beautiful with their different textures and shades of green. They are also tough. I divided and replanted a bed once and grabbed the wrong fertilizer so I used weed and feed! It did not harm the hosta at all. Thanks for a nice tour.
Impressive collection.
A wonderful and interesting tour, as always! 💚
I love Hosta, especially the fragrant ones. This was very interesting. Hope he gave you a few divisions...👍🙂
nice to take the time to appreciate hostas, they are so tough it's genuinely surprising, a couple years ago there was construction done outside, and one got literally split into pieces in midsummer during a drought and was kinda just shoved back in adjacent to the stone, but a tropical storm a few days later blasted all the soil off of it, and yet next year it was 4 feet wide, unbothered. in all the like 26 years though they really just sit there not trying to invade anything out of their space
What a lovely garden. I have around 25 varieties. I am blown away and plan to add more now.
I'm a hosta lover and his collection is super massive. Love it and it's nice to see that he got it all properly labeled. Thanks for sharing this.
I don’t care how basic folks think hostas are…I’ll always love them and their flowers. Deer are a major issue though, but I keep trying to fend them off. Dry soil under trees also generally doesn’t let them grow to their full potential unless you irrigate.
I have no idea about hostas but enjoyed every single second of the video! 🥰❤🥰❤🥰❤🥰
You have more hostas than my hosta farm does! Nice job!
I love hostas I have 12 I love them all. I’ve never seen a hosta garden that big, what a beauty. I couldn’t tell ya which one I liked best. They were all beautiful.
Ok. This man is exactly what i aspire to be. 😃
I live in Scotland and love Hostas because they are as tuff as old boots and no matter what you do with them or the weather they come back looking fabulous , the slugs are just the main pest but hey ho just one of these things.👏👏🏴🇺🇸
Guardian Angel is very stunning!
It was easy to find a favorite with all of them in one place!
This was truly hosta heaven!
I just started growing hostas this year as we moved to a house mostly in shade. I am just learning about shade plants and I fell in love with the hostas. I have 28 in total and 2 of them are the same kind with the rest being different. It was great seeing some of the same ones I have and how big they will become. I have one called “White Feather” which is all white and I have had to move it three times to find the best location. It does not like any sun at all. Anyway, thank you for all the great information about hostas! P.S. my favourite so far is “Canadian Blue”.
I am a hosta lover as well. Our property has a hill that divides upper and lower portions and gets a modicum of sun during various times of day. I have planted lots of hosta and astilbe as well as a few shrubs and just love it.
Best hosta garden 👍🏻 I'm green with envy 🥰
Funny thing , most people keep them in the shade .. most of mine are in full sun & they do great .. been that way for over 10 + years
But I do have a few under a tree in the back yard . They are the easiest plants & can be divided & make 100s more ! That’s a great thing
All my gardening friends including myself grow our hostas in pots. We live in red cedar forest and the cedar roots won't let anything grow beneath them. I've managed to grow some pretty ones in pots grouped around a water bowl and some on my shady deck. My current favs are Guacamole and Brim Cup. So pretty.
I love the “Blue Jay” pictured right toward the end of the video.
Beautiful hostas! Great video
I love the flowers❣️
Потрясающая коллекция! Спасибо
I used to collect many of the white and blue fragrant hostas.
What's their smell like?
@Flock Finger Lakes they filled the whole front yard of my townhouse under a large flowering crabapple tree. When you'd come out the front door you would smell a strong honeysuckle. I was going to replace the crabapple tree with a variegated redbud Carolina sweetheart.
You should come to WNY. We have the “Hosta Man” at Smug Creek in North Boston, NY. Mike Shadrack. He is originally from England. President of the Western New York Hosta Society. He writes the Hosta Books. We love our Hosta here. You would love our Annual Garden Walk in Buffalo, NY too
Hosta are “shade tolerant”, they still need some sun
I love hostas as well, I really like the the very large one, but saying that I love different ones in all sizes. I find them fascinating.
I love love hostas❤️I can see why he gave up on the slugs, the cost could really add up☹️Because he has so many. If I were a family member , he would know my gifts to him would always be slug bait. Those bug holes would drive me nuts🤪sweet man to show us around. I just toured a garden and they had lots of the new tiny hostas, planted in groups, in beautiful stone bowls and I wanted to bring each home with me. So very very different and as beautiful as a flower arrangement!
Oh wow! That's such a beautiful shade plant, and I never knew there were so very many varieties 😍 I really fell in love with some of these, can't wait to have my own garden where I can plant them ❤❤❤
Awesome video! Amazing collection of my FAVORITE plant ever! HOSTAS❤️🙏🏽❤️🙏🏽❤️
Thank you so so much for this. I grow hostas in the UK. This was a masterclass is species. Just lovely. Thanks. X
Super! The hostas are wonderful! Thank you very much for such a beauty!
Thanks for sharing your hosta gardens. ❣️
🥹🥹🥹🥹 Beautiful!!!! Thank you for sharing ❤️🙏🏽❤️
A lovely kind informative interview..Thank you
That Neat and Tidy made me laugh out loud. Jane is my favorite.
Hummingbirds go after hosta flowers in my yard. Snails and deer like the leaves; I’ve been tempted to remove them for this reason. For now, I use Slugo to minimize leaf damage.
Just curious how you kept up with all the names and which plant they go with? I imagine this video had tons of editing involved. I enjoyed it very much.
We try to make notes of the names as we film just so we have them afterwards for editing. Bob has a whole notebook with names and all the plants numbered.
@@FlockFingerLakes I know that I video the tags as I am going along, or more often take photos of the tag as I photo the plant. It is a lazy way of keeping track.
I am just learning about Hostas this summer. Could they be grown in the house like a tropical, and what about collecting the seed and growing new plants from seeds.
Hostas are such neat plants, one my fav varieties is Niagara Falls. Looks like a Curly Fries with large, wide leaves!
I really enjoyed this video it was incredible interesting and informative, thank you so much for the garden tour i like the plant water and then let nature take its course..
This was right up my alley. I love hosta and am trying to collect as many as I can, well at least the ones I really like.🎄💚🙃
Beautiful collection of hostas and so much to learn! Thanks for the beautiful tour ❤️ My favorite is Guardian angel ❤️🌿🌿
It’s definitely a cute feather!
Of the hostas I currently grow, 'Guacamole' is a very popular variety that not only has nice leaf color but is also quite fragrant as well! It's a sweet, floral scent that reminds me of Ipomoea alba's scent.
I have a few kinds of hosta but lost the tags so don’t know what they are. This video makes me want more! I really like the ones with a small strip of color in the middle. I sautéed hosta sprouts this spring and they were tasty!
Thank you for this video it was beautiful.
Ask him what trees to plant above them, what he has planted. Love his trees too!
Hosta heaven. Thank you sooo much for this ❤
I'm with you...I love my Guardian Angel hosta!
Oh I'm a hosta lover. I wa swooning at this tour. I'm considering growing my hostas indoors. I love their ability to survive in shade. I had one hosta originally and it seems t have different varieties off it.
I planted some Hostas last year and the deers gave them a bald shave I was furious my neighbor told me to use cayenne pepper just sprinkle all over they won’t hurt the plant works like a charm or epsom salt now my hostas are happy 😅
What a wonderful collection! Solomon's plume would be the native alternative to support more insects. Also, in my travels and greets. Someone is working on a cupped hosta that gathers the rain. Then the weight of rain water makes the plant bow to its weight to release the water. Then stand back up and do the motion all over again!
Hosta Heaven ❤️
Hi, you've said several times in the vidéo that hostas are very contained, not spreading etc. I'd like to know if there are varieties more spreading than others. I'm thinking of planting a lot of them for eating purpose. Any advise about varieties for taste, amount of leaves, speed of multiplication and so on would be highly welcome! Thanks!
The Warwick Comet is beautiful.
Great video!
Inspiring for my shady backyard!
NH Hostas is a great nursery with tons of variety. They ship in the US.
Whirlwind is my favourite. I just split a plant and made 4 new ones. I’m a hosta addict too, but don’t have that many🤣
I love my hostas in my garden. My favorites that you didn't show are earth angel and fire island.
I continue to see people here in N. Georgia try to plant Hosta in full, hot sun. I know they're advertised as "sun tolerant" but they always look burnt. Please southerners, give them some afternoon sun protection! I have a few that get a little afternoon sun but not all day! Sadly, it happens with big leaf Hydrangeas too. I moved from up north, the South is different! Lilacs don't do well down here, very sad.
This fall, several of my Hosta sent up repeat flower stalks while the foliage was dying back, anyone else notice this?
I've also started leaving the spent flower stalks, it supports the small orb weaver spiders. They can weave, eat & grow there. Natural pest control! Dekays snakes stay small & love to eat slugs, I protect them so I don't have to battle the slug damage.
Nice collection sir!
Hi. Question. Do these need only shade? Did he have them in drip system? I guess my question should be Can they work in dry shade? Love your channel ❤
I would love a variety of Hostas..."Blue Angle" would be my favorite
Beautiful❤💛💚
I have or had just five different kinds of hosta but the deer ate them down to the ground last night. I’ve had hostas here for 20+ years and deer never touched them. Our part of the country is not dry this year so what has happened ?!? At least I got to look at someone else’s hostas tonight.
SLUG KILLER: Cut head of garlic in half, boil all of it in 1 gallon water, 5 minutes. Let cool & strain. This is a concentrate, to be mixed 1/4 cup to 1 gallon water. Pour over hosta & the ground beneath. Garlic has an electrocuting effect on the slugs' central nervous system, they oversecrete their mucous covering & die instantly. This has worked miraculously in my gardens where I used to have lots of slugs, but seldom see them anymore.
Yes! I used garlic to repel slugs in my veggie patch and it worked, but much garlic was wasted.
Can't grow hostas here in zone 10 Florida
I want to be him when im old, such a gentle soul with a great passion for Hostas, but in my case is gonna be with orchids.
What a beautiful video and tour. To see Bob's passion is a wonderful gem.
Favorites of Mine seen today was Kiwi Full Monty (have that one), Guardian Angel and On Stage. Other favorites of mine not seen are: June, Island Breeze and Autumn Delight, because they last all the way up to a Hard Frost. Guacamole and stained Glass are nice too. Oh, and don’t forget Patriot! Can you tell I love Hosta?
I just found out they are edible! I tried the young shoots and larger leaves! Not bad at all. Taste a lot like collards greens.
‘Remember Me’ - was named after a breast cancer survivor that eventually lost her battle with cancer; it is such a beautiful hosta.
Also, ‘Cherry Berry,’ has seed pods that turn cherry red in a sunnier location. Phenomenal collection shown here. A few pet ducks
are good at controlling your slugs in the hosta and daylily garden. There are larger slug resistant varieties of hosta.
My favorite hosta is called the Patriot, altho I’m loving the hosta’s the have yellow leaves
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can you please give me the name of the hosta at 10.14 ?. I dont think that it is "midnigt at the oasis". (my english is old i'm sorry... ) from france. Dominique Mortier
Autumn Frost is a very pretty Hosta
I'll give you a like just for wearing the cool shirt, top man!
I have Hosta 'Halcyon' and 'Blue Cadet' in my garden. These blue leafed varieties have tougher foliage which seems to be not as tasty to slugs than other hostas.
Put out a bowl of beer to control the slugs. You'll be amazed at how effective it is at luring and killing slugs.