) I've missed you all & think about you guys every time I walk around the garden. I missed secret trades many times over the past few years due to computor malfunction or just poor timing so I popped on today when dear sonny boy left. Did I miss it again? I can't find a topic about this year so hopefully I'm in time.
I'm still working in the Walmart garden center trying to convince the higher ups the plants must be watered occassionally and they'll probably sell if you take care of them!
This year they've decided no one wants trees, trellises and a number of other things that I've had a zillion requests for. I'd love to meet the people who actually make these decisions 
They must be pumpkin heads or something! Oh, sorry all you pumpkins, I didn't meant to insult you! Last year I made a new hosta bed. I keep very nice journal notes of what I'm doing each time I work in the garden, but I misplaced one whole month of notes and the maps I made during that period so I don't know what a few of the hostas are. I left the tags by them but a couple blew away & one is hard to read and says "I couldn't read the last tag-it looks like Grand Ma..." I can't begin to guess what that could be! I'm so organized!
Anyway, some of the hostas I do remember are Fallen Angel which is gorgeous! Piecrust Power, RickRack, Emerald Ruff Cut, Spilt Milk, Alleghan Fog & about 5 more. I sure wish I could find that map! This one hosta is so yellow in the center with dark green edges & reminds me of Remember Me (how ironic!). So now I'm looking at the bed and Alleghan Fog is the only one with white in it and it looks so out of place! I think this was to be an unusual shaped or colored bed I guess coz they're all so different or just the ones I liked the most of what I had to plant at the time. I can't wait to see them when they're all big & pretty!
I sorta have another new bed. I made a new sidewalk several years ago with flagstone and put sand in between the rocks and tried to plant thyme & irish moss between the stones, but my hostas decided to do a little decorating on their own! I have baby hostas every where along the sidewalk! This year some came up that have turned into good sized hostas. I guess I need to get them out of there before they tear up the stones and also so I can still have room to walk! Two of them have pie crust edges & I love that coz that is one of my favorite looks! There's a few gold ones, but from another post I was reading I got the impression they won't make it? I think DBowie said they didn't have enough something (chlorophyl?) to grow on their own. I paid so much attention! Maybe that's just for sports, not seedlings. Now that I think about it, I did dig up some gold ones last year & put them in that bed where the stem blight was and they're doing ok.
I got my problem with southern stem blight fixed I guess since every hosta came up where I'd had the problem. I planted multiples of common plants in the two beds to see if it was gone & they're all doing great so guess I can dig them up, put them in my sale & plant other ones.
Speaking of my sale, I had a guy offer to buy everything I have left so I think I'll have one this next weekend then sell him the rest. It all sets in my driveway & I'd love to get it repaved and work on the bed next to the drive that I can't get to coz of the sale pots.
I'm sure I've missed out on a lot. I was reading the post about Leafy being gone. Did he just quit posting so you don't know if he did something crazy, like join the Rose Forum or something? Maybe aliens got him!
DS has an evening job now so if I'm not working that I can check back. When he gets home he gets on the computer for the rest of the night so I have no chance then!
I lost maybe 20 hostas this year. Can't figure out why coz the ones next to them are fine and the missing ones are from all parts of the yard. There's no reason I can see. It's just like another post I was reading from one of the new members about Undulatas sporting. I've noticed this year that the hostas I have two or more of that are in different parts of the yard are coming up very differently. One Patriot I have in shade is up about a foot tall, yet another that is in some sun is still closed up eyes. I have several Undulata Univitattas that are way different this year. Two in front, not 6' apart are so different in height although they've always been the same the past 10 years or so, while the ones in the side yard are even more different in height & width. And I've always had trouble with the rule "1st year they sleep, 2nd creep & 3rd leap." Mine seems to be sleep, creep, creep, creep and maybe leap the 5th or 6th year and then they go crazy! I guess my hostas, like me, are highly unusual beings!
Well, I hope I didn't miss the trade.
