Hosta

Thought I’d show some of the bright and cheerful hostas. They certainly brighten the place up at the moment.

Look at the difference between initially potting up these Hosta Teeny Weeny Bikinis and 3 days later after they have settled down.

Just finished potting up 500 Hostas and managed to fill up the walk in enclosure. A big relief and satisfaction.

Lakeside Dragonfly has appeared to cheer us up!

New Hostas arriving about 200 of them.
Blue Mouse Ears
Blue Umbrellas
Captain Kirk
Cracker Crumbs
Dark Star
Designer Genes
Emily Dickinson
First Frost
Lakeside Babyface
Lakeside Ninita
Lakeside Spellbinder
Majesty
Randy Rachel
Sea Dream
Vulcan
Some of them will be available for sale this year, whilst others are to provide growing stock for the future.

Just received our initial order of a few thousand 1litre and 1.4litre pots ready for the start of the season. Looking forward to filling these next month.

Well we thought we’d got off lightly with the storms so far this year, Dudley, Eunice but Franklin caught us out as our Milverton site where most of our Hostas are grown is wooded. We have spent the last 3 years improving the general health of the trees, but Franklin came suddenly changed direction from Westerly and South Westerly to North Westerly and one of the big Oak trees that is in our Bi-Way boundary came down.

So a few nice gentleman and myself spent yesterday clearing a lot of wood yesterday. The life of keeping Hostas. No Hostas were harmed in this process.

A big Thank you to Rob and David for helping and to be honest doing most of the work, I was just the help.

The Minis we have been growing outside under shade netting have started to show themselves. Most of these are at our Woodland site near Milverton and grown under shade netting. With the weather forecast for the moment we have been putting some fleece over them to protect from overnight frosts.

Very pleased with progress with these as it is our first year of growing a large number of minis at our Milverton site, previous to this we would have grown all of them at our Taunton site with more protection.

Managed to put together the list of new Hostas available for 2022. They will need to settle down a bit, but hopefully once we get through March and April we should know where we stand:
Abiqua Drinking Gourd
August Moon
Autumn Frost (R)
Bedford Blue
Blue Umbrellas
Blue Vision
Captain Kirk
Carnival
Designer Genes
Devon Gold
Devon Green
Dinner Jacket
Funny Mouse
Giantland Mouse Cheese
Glory hallelujah
Golden Tiara
June Fever (R)
Lakeside Baby Face
Lakeside Spellbinder
Paradigm
Paul’s Glory
Pilgrim
Sagae
Sherborne Swift
Striptease
Sum and Substance
Sunny Halcyon
Vulcan