Hallson Gardens

This is my all time favorite hosta. I just love the coloration and shape of the leaves. And the bell flowers are a bonus! Unfortunately, It didn't like it's first home and got banished to Loser's Lane to recover. It is huge now and I'm afraid to move it to a more prominent location for fear of setti...

Hank, your gardens are so lovely. I've been enjoying them for some time. I also love your composition with companion plants. I learn from every photo you post. Do have a question...what types of trees do you have in your gardens that you are able to plant right up against? I think you talked about t...

Hank, how does Darwin's Standard compare to Gold Standard? I have Gold Standard in high canopy and while it grows well, I do not like how the margin blurs into the gold. I would like a more sharper margin to gold look. From your pics, it looks like Darwin's Standard might be the one. Or, would you r...

Charla, how about Olga's sale....hosta 'Gotham'. Not as tight as a hacksaw, but very pretty. There are several pics posted.

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Good luck.

Karen

Well, you could do like I did. While on vacation last year my husband agreed to stop at a little hosta grower in the Ozarks. The owner was so excited to see a fellow connesiour that he drug me around the place, not allowing me to linger and enjoy. My husband didn't follow us, and was able to walk ar...

This is fun! When I moved from the Bay Area to Kansas in 1986, I rented a little house in the oldest neighborhood in town. My neighbors were all elderly and they were so impressed when the big semi pulled up on their little street to unpack this young single woman's belongings. Evidently it was the ...

Charla, just saw your post. It sure explains a lot. Thanks! Normally I have some type of "black sticky stuff" under the neighbors walnut that hangs into my yard in the back. Nice place to put furniture, but could never sit on a chair under that tree. But this year, even stuff out in the open (tomato...

Impatience, Boy, this is bizarre. You have my sympathy. I know folks thought I was crazy when I posted saying ants were eating my hosta eyes. I sat there and watched them! :eek: But I don't think anyone really believed me. :-? We've had more rain this year than in the last few years combined. And I'...

Hi all. The clump of my old pale yellow iris was dying out in the center so I decided to dig it up today to recondition. As I was digging , I found millions upon millions of pill bugs of all different sizes....almost microscopic to full grown....living in the dry, well drained soil. My rhizomes were...

bump for Hank.....

Charla, now that you mention it....I do recall a weed down on the farm that has a similar leaf. We didn't call it horseweed...but something else.... :-? Trust me, they are not the same plant. As I recall, the weed spreads by seeds and is an annual. This flower spreads by rhisomes, is a perennial and...

That is it Nathalie! It's funny....I looked it up and it is also called it "Outhouse Plant". They didn't explain why. I knew there were outhouse hollyhocks, so the Victorian ladies could delicately ask where the hollyhocks were when they needed to go to the bathroom. I wonder if it is similar? It is...

My neighbor gave me a start of this plant 20 years ago. She brought her original start from Oklahoma when she moved to Kansas in the '40s. It grows tall...some years it will hit the gutters on my garage. Because of this year's Easter freeze, it is only about 6 feet tall. The flowers are at the top o...

Hank, In one of my posts last year you mentioned that you used the 2% disulfton (Hi-Yield). I think you mentioned a couple of teaspoons around each plant when you discovered the nematodes and then another application the next spring. My question is do you continue to treat every year as a precaution...

These were too good to be true, taken freehand right after the 3 days of constant rain finally stopped the other night. A mushroom rain, my Grandmother would have called it. A deluge, the poor folks just south of here would call it. It's either feast or famine in our little piece of the world called...

Or, could it be Twilight? I found a lable that says Twilight, but I'm not convinced. I've had it for 4 years, 3 years in its current spot. It is a slow multiplier, but the leaves and stalks get more robust as the years go by. It looks closest to Hank's pic of v. Aureo in the Hosta Library than any o...

Charla, I think it has to do with the Easter freeze. I'm in Overland Park and I know you've gotten a heck of a lot more rain than we have...but I still blame the freeze (and a nasty outbreak of slugs). I've never had to use slug protection till this year. I guess the previous years of drought was a ...

I have a similar question to Charla's....is there anything that could look like nematodes, but not be? Could the weather or a nasty outbreak of slugs have caused some damage that could simulate the look of nematodes? I have an 5 year old hosta that I protected from the Easter freeze that looks serio...

I am not much for "talking" on this forum...I usually sit back and listen and learn. And I have learned a lot from Hank and many others since I discovered this forum last summer. My thanks to everyone, but especially to Hank and his POTD! Now for Stilletto... This is one little hosta that surprised ...

Thanks Renaldo and Ginger for taking the time to respond. They are sugar ants and I literally watched them eat the center out of one eye the other day. :o Since then I have found them in more hostas in different parts of the garden. They are mentioned on the hosta library or was it hosta org :-? as ...