Competition Time!

We are running a little competition this year. The first person that can send us a picture of their Hosta with 2 leaves open will win a prize, a Hosta from our available collection delivered free of charge. Please note we cannot currently ship to Northern Ireland or Europe, but we will arrange for a suitable alternative to be delivered.

About 30 of our varieties have woken up and are showing signs of life. Several of our Miniatures are streaking ahead, but lots of the large varieties have definitely started growing – Firn Lines, Guacamoles, Devon Greens, Halcyon, Blazing Saddles, Hadspen Blue, Blue Cadets, and so on.

Finished the Hosta List for the start of the Season 2021.

Have managed to complete the initial Hosta list for 2021. We have 75 varieties available for sale, the beginning of 2020 we had 20 varieties and finished the season with 45 available for sale.

We currently hold 130 varieties of Hostas, and will look to make more available for sale as we increase the stock levels of them. We will be changing the photographs for several of them and increasing the information available for each of them throughout the year.

Thanks Mike

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to everyone, I hope that you have had some Christmas cheer in these difficult times we find ourselves in.

We have been keeping quite quiet on the internet just like our Hostas we have been waiting for the eruption of the new year. Behind the scenes we have been looking after our new collections of Hostas. We currently have over 2,000 plants tucked up for the winter across 2 sites in Taunton, and 1 at Milverton. We have about 500 small/miniatures (with some starting to grow already!), with the rest being the larger varieties.

We now have over 130 varieties, many of them available for sale, whilst the remaining we are building up stock and bringing on for another year.

Some highlights for this coming year:

  • Allow pre-arranged visits to our Milverton site.
  • Upgrade and improve our website.
  • Increase the amount of information available to our customers and friends.
  • Covid permitting attend several plant fairs in the South West.
  • A monthly competition during the growing season.

As mentioned before some of our Hostas are champing at the bit. Here is Hosta Ballerina getting ready to unfurl it’s leaves. I haven’t had any Hostas out at this time of year before most surprise!

2nd October 2020 Latest update at Milverton site.

Here is the latest update on the Hosta enclosures at our Milverton site. To recap we are currently replacing, upgrading, adding and increasing the number of enclosures at our Milverton site. We originally had 4 enclosures and 1 small enclosure at this site, all based on the ground. Due to Covid and caring issues we couldn’t spend as much time as we would have like maintaining the site, taking the ducks up etc.
Our site is triangular in shape and is bounded by a council road on 1 site, a field on the other and a bi-way next to 25 acres of ancient woodland. We don’t use any slug pellets or chemicals and the fields and woods generate some monster slugs!
We originally had 2 Khaki Campbells (very small) ducks but they were struggling with the bigger stuff. So last year we purchased 2 Buff Orpingtons from a breeder near Lincoln, these are bigger and stronger ducks for the bigger stuff. Janet specifically wanted those ducks because they are beautiful and almost golden in colour. It was an epic journey getting them, but still don’t regret it.
Anyway back to the upgrades, the new enclosures are off the ground (based on pallet tables) to ease our back, reduce the slug/snail issues and allow the ducks to run underneath them. (Would you believe it ducks like eating Hosta leafs, not good for them but hey ho!)
We have increased our enclosure numbers from 5 to 8 and increased the sizes of them. I reckon we have increased our enclosure coverage by 3 to 4 times. All in preparation for receiving our new stock this Autumn.
Got some pictures for you, but will have to add more as some of the site has already changed since these were taken a day or 2 ago.