Hallson Gardens

This is only the second year I've had Fallen Angel and White Wall Tires, so they aren't that big yet. But they did survive our zone 4 winter. Both are in heavily dappled shade with maybe an hour of sun towards sunset. They are growing in very moist conditions. White Feather did survive the winter, b...

The voles here dig in from the top of the soil. I just moved every hosta from a raised bed. There was a vole or voles in the bed and they were eating every hosta. But the entry holes were on top of the soil, so hardware cloth wouldn't do any good.
Pam

Mine's a TC - I checked the tag and it doesn't give a mature leaf size.
Pam

There's a photo and some info on shadyoaks site.
I just got it so can't add much on growing it
Pam

Blooms at about 18" tall

Are the leaves there or gone? Voles will chew them right off at ground leave too. And if you are dry, I've seen chipmunks chew the stems of plants for moisture.
Pam

What? No "Little Stiffy"
in your bed??

lol - no, not a park. A lot are young ones. We've been eying an adjoining lot to expand on though - lol

About 8 years ago, I read that you need to break the deer from their normal browsing path. They will following the same route all the time. We fenced our yard with just metal stakes and light weight chicken wire. It's just enough to deter them and make them walk another path through the woods. The f...

I don't think putting any time of screening down before the soil is necessary. Voles are going to be able to dig from the top of the soil down for the roots and crown. You can't use any screen fine enough to keep them out and still allow the hosta crowns to grow up through it.
Pam

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I don't use mulch at all. The wood chips became a breeding ground for slugs and leaf mulch is vole heaven. It just makes a nice warm place for the voles to winter. We rake the beds clean in the fall. We usually have a good snowpak for the winter, so that's good insulation too.
Pam

I still have a few dozen hosta to go in the ground and tons of bulbs. Guess I'd better get REALLY busy now though, snow flurries are in the near future. And I just got hellebores from TerraNova
Pam

It's unfortunate but there are people who join groups just so they can harvest email addresses and promote their own nursery business.
Too bad the person who complained on Daves didn't just come to you with their complaint.
Pam

Just over 700 named varieties and over 1,000 plants.
And still a long list of 'wants' - lol
Pam

Frost? Oh say it isn't so! I'm definitely not ready for fall weather.
Pam

Skunks will also dig in soil that has been loosened. They like bugs and grubs. They like voles too.
Pam

I believe the royalty tags are actually where you pay your fee for propagating and selling the plant. You buy x amount of tags to sell x amount of plants. The tags say they must accompany the sale of the plant. Selling the plant, donation or not, without the tag means violating the patent. But then ...

And just how would the patent owner go about deciding that the plant in your hand is a division and not an entire plant? This might be possible to judge while it is one or two eyes but how would they know once the plant has reached say 4 or more eyes? MollyD The royalty tags. They are supposed to ac...

Has anyone actually checked with a lawyer to see if hybridizers could have a Terms of Sale type agreement signed by potential buyers? Much like we agree to abide by the rules of a forum site, could a Terms of Sale stipulate that a specific plant cannot be re-sold or propagated for profit and the con...