Hosta

Well sorry for not providing more updates here, but been a very busy, exciting and still more being done. May was exceedingly busy, starting with Toby Buckland’s Gardenfest at Powderham Castle. A lovely time met loads of lovely people and we did one of our enjoyable talks on the Saturday. I think everyone enjoyed themselves as we tend to have a different style to most where we try to Entertain and Educate.

Then onto the RHS Malvern Spring Show where we were grateful to receive a Silver Medal. There was 3 other Hosta growers there and it was like a wonderful Hosta convention with customers roaming between us all. Met loads of lovely people and whilst I was cleaning the glass containing our Super Mini Bonsai Hosta in a thimble it regularly attracted crowds a bit like the changing of the guard.

After this it was onto Devon county (Gold & Silver), Tavistock Garden Festival (a lovely bottle of Prosecco for the girls) and finishing with the month with the Royal Bath and West (Gold).

After this we attended several plant fairs and gave several Garden Club talks and had a rip roaring time taking our plants to the public, meeting lots of lovely people.

Still busy at present adding infrastructure to our Milverton and Clayhanger sites, especially after all the watering that was done this year. I will put together a further update soon.

Didn’t think apples flowered like that! I think she must be quite happy. #hosta #terrarium Lemon and Lime.

I’m just pumping water around the site to make the most of the rain, and this is my view from where I am managing the pump.

How’s that for a nice cup of hosta in the morning.

The Willow is coming along nicely now in this weather.

Spotted this #hosta Stilletto racing away.

There we go, the hosta terrarium with a Lemon and Lime hosta is coming of age. There are 2 flower scapes formed on it already.

A little update on our #hosta #terrarium as you can see everything is settling down nicely. #becreative #bedifferent.

At the end of last year we decided to allow all our existing terrarium hostas have a winter break to re-invigorate them. They had been in their terrariums for 2 years and were starting to look tired. So this week we built our first new terrarium of the year. Already 1 eye has popped up to say hello so won’t be long before we it in all its glory.

Well we have been a bit quiet for a while here, but there has been very busy behind the scenes. Storm Daragh caused quite a bit of work for us. Our main site with the Hostas got off relatively lightly. 4 trees came down and needed clearing but by comparison little work was needed. We did get one or two Hostas speared, but they were re-potted and are fine. Our other site at Clayhanger, which is more exposed got clobbered. Finally got back on top of things now.

In the interim we have been busy indoors sowing Hosta seeds sown, and several of the varieties have shown some interesting combinations. We sowed 52 varieties and have managed to get germination of 42, so very pleased. My favourites at the moment came from Amber Tiara x OP and Ivory Queen x OP. Only time will tell how well they will do.

We have got a lot of our events booked for the year. Which takes a bit of sorting, but looking forward to that, and we have our first talk starting in less than 2 weeks time. Busy times, but enjoyable!