Hallson Gardens

Doing the Happy Happy Happy Hosta Dance! Wish you could see me, well, no I guess I really don't wish that! :oops: First off I'm so happy I have such nice friends who made extra efforts to get me involved this year! But then, I really lucked out & got Mikky as my secret trader. Mikky sent me 4 super ...

How do I find my list on here?

Hi Renaldo,
You said your plantaginea was 3 years old. Didn't I send you one years ago? It came from my Grandma's farm & I thought I sent a chunk of it to just about everyone I traded with. Just wondering.
Ellen

Well, aren't Joan & Pandora great too! Thanks to all my hosta buddies for helping me get in on the trade this time. I can't wait for daylight to go out & decide what to send. Oh, and maybe I'll have to go hosta shopping in case I "need" to send something my secret tradee doesn't have (& I don't eith...

I'm so happy, I got in on this one! I updated my list tonight. I hadn't kept it up like I thought I had, so it was hard figuring out what had died & what the new ones I've bought are, but I think I got it done! I've printed my tradee's list out & will check it tomorrow & hopefully get the box sent t...

Since I haven't been on the forum in a couple years I've missed out on all your discussions. I just glanced over a lot of the HVX forum & read several, but I don't have time to read everything. So do you think there's a difference now? Have the Holland growers taken it seriously? Reason I'm asking i...

Linda, Thanks for the welcome back. Funny you should say Dancing in the Rain is doing ok. My original one died, then I tried 2 more and just can not get that baby to live! I can't get Fire & Ice to live either or celosia annuals. So funny coz my whole garden is gorgeous, but there's just certain thi...

Jim,
Somehow I got to calling my Kifukurin Ko Mame "Kiffy YO MAMA!" and Opipara Koriyama "Little Oppie Cunningham".
Why? Why not?
FreakyCola, AKA Stoned Soda

I wrote in a while ago about the secret trades & haven't had a chance to get back on the computer to check for an answer. Well, Chris actually called me on the phone to make sure I wasn't going to miss it this year. Unfortunatley I wasn't home so I didn't get to talk to him. It just blows my mind th...

Brian, I sent you a PM, well I hope I sent you one. I haven't been on here in so long I was having trouble with it. I didn't read it correctly (some friends of mine might say it's a blonde thing) so I kept putting Secret trade in where your name was supposed to be. Of course, it kept coming back say...

NewB, My neighbors all know I'm nuts. I talk to my hostas and am particularly fond of Komodo Dragon. It's so beautiful that every time I walk by it I have to YELL KOMODO!!! in a japanese accent and sometimes I bow to it. No matter how many times I walk by it I just can't help doing that! I also love...

Hi everyone, all my old friends & new ones I've yet to "meet". My son confiscated the computer & it is hidden in the bowels of his room so I rarely get a chance to get online. (It's very scarey in there! :eek:) I've missed you all & think about you guys every time I walk around the garden. I missed ...

Hi Chris, Exactly how much & how often do you water? I mentioned I try to water every 2 or 3 days and someone told me I was making the garden dependent on that & it wouldn't do well. I've done it this way at least 10 years & the garden seems to be doing pretty well, so I'm thinking whoever told me t...

I love Bayer products! About 5 years ago I sprinkled the Rose & Flower Care granules around my plants that were being devoured by Japanese beetles & within a few days I think they were gone! It must make the plants taste bad to them since it's sistemic--probly spelled wrong but it means it's drawn u...

Hi Ann, I toss 12-12-12 on top of the snow! When it melts it goes in the ground. I read to do it that way a long time ago & tried it & it seems to work since my garden is just gorgeous & people all around ask me how I do it! :D I thought watering every 2 or 3 days was what is needed to get about an ...

Thanks for your thoughts. Hmmm. I am very good about watering every 2-3 days if it doesn't rain. I pay close attention to the end of the season even when the leaves are brown I still water, should I cut down then? I've always done it the same so I doubt that I'm over watering. I try to put 12-12-12 ...

Hi SB! How's your hostas? Chris, Some of the lower leaves are longer than wide and look like the BA out front, but most of them on top are the huge almost round leaves. They remind me of Lady Isobel Barnett's leaves, except all blue. When I bought the plant it was unnamed but since the nursery had v...

I have a bunch of hostas that are much smaller than they were last year. What causes that? I water all the time so I don't think that's a reason. I started each bed by putting lots of shredded leaves and compost in and double digging so they're all started out right. In one bed there's a Rascal that...

There's a bed on the north side of my house I'd like to plant hostas in. For the past 6 years it has had cannas, calla lilies and dahlias come back year after year. I think it has something to do with the huge cold air pipes in the basement that are against that wall. Last year I sat mini hostas in ...

Does this make sense to you? I have what I know is Blue Angel in the front yard. In the am it's shaded by a tree and starts getting filtered light about noon and direct sun from 2-5 pm. It's probably 4 years old and 5' wide by 15" tall. The leaves are about 10" long x 6" wide. It's not sunburned at ...