My biggest collection are the Valley's. I can not help, I love Jeroen's plants...

Karin, a very impressive collection of Valleys;s hostas . They are very beautiful, I especially like their long legs . How is your Valley's Lemon Squash doing? It is so beautiful

The long legs come from living close together in Jeroen's garden. He has not much room for his plants and so they try to reach as much light as they can. Normally they come back with shorter legs in my garden It is so hard to wait for spring now! I want to see how all the new Valley's I bought last summer will come back.
Here are a few more...

Those are the last picture from last summer. In a few weeks we can show new growth. There are small pips in some of the pots so there is hope for spring







































Karin

Karin... z wielką przyjemnością obejrzałam wspomnienia z ubiegłego sezonu w Twoim ogrodzie... do kilku host zdaje się, że nawet zapałałam niebezpiecznym uczuciem... taka 'Hawaiian Luau' od razu podbiła mi serce... a miejsca u mnie w ogródku już dramatycznie mało... ale dajesz piękny przykład, że w doniczkach też się da zbudować imponującą kolekcję

Będę tu jeszcze wracać, bo wiele z host, które nam zaprezentowałaś nie ma jeszcze metryczki w naszej bazie i trzeba będzie temu zaradzić... dziękuję również za uzupełnianie istniejących wątków kolejnymi zdjęciami

We had two wonderful warm and sunny days and I cleaned the garden. Some pots show first signs of life, but I think I will have to wait at least two weeks longer until I can see if all my hosta are back...

Here are a few pictures from the garden this weekend...

After checking my hosta pots I'm happy that I have lost only plant, Pinani Splash...

This week the first parcels came, from the Netherlands 11 Frisian hosta and from a friend in Wales a mix of different hosta. As my garden is getting fuller from day to day I was limited in my hosta orders and decided to buy mostly additions to my already excisting collections, like Frisian, Kempen, Valley's and from two samll nurseries, Chiemsee and Oberland.

They all will come until mid of May and I will be busy with potting and finding a place for them

The plants from Wales had been in my friend's greenhouse and are much bigger than those from my garden. I take them inside at night because we stillhave temperatures around zero.











































Karin

Not much room left in my garden, so I have to concentrate on my collections. I got these Frisian hosta two weeks ago....

I have not posted for a lont time because I was very busy with keeping all the hosta alive. The summer is very hot and so dry that watering needs a lot of time. The hosta pots are all close together in the shadow and I can not take as many pictures as I would like. So here are at least a few from the last months...





















































Karin

Karin, your hostas look great despite the hot weather and drought. I wonder what is the name of a hosta on the picture below - the one on the left of what I think is Sharp Dressed Man
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That's a young Jade Cascade and you are right with Sharp Dressed Man

Hello again!

Finally I'm done with chosing nice pictures to show in this post. It was not easy because summer was not nice to the hosta. But as I know that there are a few Valley's friends in this forum I will start with showing this part of my collector's hosta first. I will add more from day to day...






























Karin

Hi Karin!

It's nice to remember summer. our hostas will soon show their 'fangs' again, almost like lions

I see you really like Valley's series. V. Blue Print, and V. Blue Stature are good.

Hi Poll,

you are right, I love my Valley's Blue Stature is a beautiful upright growing hosta, I'm looking forward to spring and hope they will be all back...































Karin

Ach.. ach.. ach..

A few pictures from my Valley's corner. They are so beautiful in spring...
In summer I had to put them close together to give them enough shade. The sun and heat was terrible and we had no rain from May to end of August...

Meine Frisian Sammlung hat sich im letzten Sommer auch sehr vergrößert. Ich habe einige Pflanzen von Jannes van Rossum kaufen können, der den Vertrieb für den Züchter Bate Aukema macht. Das meiste sind Ableger der Original Pflanzen. Das freut mich immer besonders.