scootersbear wrote:It starts just like this though. First you pick up a few the first year but the second you have some spaces that need filled. Third year your moving patios, decks, fences and such to make more room were theres shade (and don't say you haven't). Fourth year your planting more trees. Fifth year your using the once was sunny areas you had before where you planted the trees. The journey continues from there and over the years you have over a 1000 hostas. People will walk in your garden and ask how many hostas you have? your reply: a lot
It's all true, scootersbear, every bit of it. In my case, I was ready to start planning and planting my hosta gardens when I lost 2 large old trees to a windstorm, and then the 3 magnificent 115 year old American elm trees died, leaving me with no shade except for the very small ash in the back yard, which was where my (then) little grandchildren played, and in the spruce windbreak, which was then occupied by the sheep that my husband purchased to mow the acre across the drive from the house, because he didn't want to spend all that time mowing. Hosta purchases went on hold, while I planted and planted and planted trees and large shrubs. 18 years later, I have reclamied the acre across the drive, planted trees and shrubs EVERYWHERE, loaded up the ground under the spruce trees with seedlings and 'rescue' plants. The house yard is full to overflowing with hostas, and in the last couple of years they are filling up the borders across the drive where it used to be all sun. My husband will tell you that I have over three hundred hostas. If you click on the link to my hosta list at the bottom of the page you'll see that he's just a few years behind, but who is going to tell him? Not me.
I have a lot.
Linda P
And time remembered is grief forgotten,
And frosts are slain and flowers begotten.....
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Latitude: 41° 51' 12.1572"
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