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Plant or weed?

Can anyone advise what this is please? it looks very like a hosta but seems different to all others I've known. It's just started growing. Thanks Corinne Looks like a wild arum. aha that would make sense, thanks so much! by Corinne Hitching

04/05/2013 12:06:00

by Corinne Hitching

Where have all the hostas gone?

. The growing tips of Hosta are just out of the soil (shady position, windy hillside). In flower at moment - daffodils, primrose, pushkinia, chionodoxa, anemone de Caen, hellebores, erythronium won't be long. by dizzylizzy

18/04/2013 10:57:48

by keepitlive

Are Hostas really for shade?

I have several Hostas in my garden - all growing under the dappled shade of my Japanese Acers. One of them has a flower spike forming but it is the only one! I have looked closely at the amount of light that may be going on this particular by Beverley Jones

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04/07/2012 22:13:45

by quercus_rubur

Hosta flowering - shall I or shan't I?

I usually remove flowering stalks from my hostas so that they build up strong crowns - I grow hostas for their architectural leaves, not the flowers. But, one of my Blue Angels is throwing up a really fat looking flower spike - shall I be strong by Dovefromabove

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19/05/2013 22:39:48

by Alina W

Plant for tub under carport - light but no sun

begonias grow in shade. If green then hostas, Brunnera Jack Frost; if purple, I have a heuchera Plum Pudding in a pot in shade, perhaps other varieties of heuchera as well. Hosta would be a good idea, and I could keep an eye out for slugs !! I will have by Mari Williams

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22/02/2013 18:53:53

by Mari Williams

Talkback: Perfect hostas

Am very jealous of your perfect hostas.Is copper tape all it really takes? I may be inspired to try again. Love hostas, just can't bear the holes... Deep heat? Really! Wow.. might have to try that. My hostas are in the ground and this year I by lorrie-koolkats

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28/11/2011 18:38:40

by jenjon

Talkback: Bluebells, tulips and the Malvern Show

Can someone please remind me of the anti slug spray used by the Hosta loving lady on Gardeners' World 9th May Malvern Show edition? It involved 2 bulbs of garlic but can't remember what else. Hi Jo, here is Una Dunnett's Garlic Wash recipe by trealmac51yahoo.co.uk

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28/11/2011 18:31:40

by jo

hostas

I grow hostas in pots and have about 5. Only 1 produced flowers this year, the others threw up a few weedy looking leaves and nothing else. I feed with organic seeweed food and check for snails etc. Any tips? Could they have been waterlogged by pinkjude

18/10/2012 19:36:28

by Dovefromabove

Talkback: Hostas, slugs and snails

. But, can you tell me if I need to change the soil or add feed or something. I just leave the pots alone, let them stay out all winter and they just seem to grow very well. I have 4 hostas slugs don,t really bother with them maybe an odd nibble but if i by N Freeland.Somerset

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28/11/2011 18:31:24

by brian jeffs

Hosta's

with the colour of Blue Angel - it could be a bit bluer for me. Dove, does the Blue Angel get a lot of sunlight ? After several years growing hostas in the garden soil and watching slugs debeautify them I dug every one up and put them into a collection of pots by Brumbull

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22/03/2013 23:17:25

by Verdun

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