General Discussion & Chat: Coffee and......May 8, Monday, 1 by BabsERNurse

BabsERNurse wrote:
I went to the Navy Exchange (same thing as the BX or PX depending on your branch of service) Saturday and rescued 4 pitiful hosta starts. I got all four plants for 75 cents. I brought the poor things home, called my sister and begged for her gallon milk jugs to use as nursery beds for these little babies. I'm hoping they survive and mature. We shall see. They were two of "Cadet Blue" and two of "Albo Marginata". The AM's are so sad looking they have no green on them anywhere, but the root systems looked fine. They were still pliable and looked to have life in them still. I'm including a photo I took this morning of the pitiful Cadet Blue and if any of you have any advice about how to help these poor things along, please feel free to D-mail me as I'm certainly no expert on hostas, though I have fallen deeply in love with them. I have a corner of my front yard all set aside now with hostas, as it's a well shadowed corner, underneath Douglas Firs and a niche of our cedar fencing. What I've planted in there is doing well so far and all have come back through their winter sleep.

I hope everyone has a great day. I'm off to work this afternoon. Wouldn't you know it? The weather this weekend was atrocious, and now the wind has died down, the rain is gone, the sun is out and when I could be out in the yard, I'm stuck at work instead. Never fails, does it? *heavy sigh*

Hugs to all! ~Babs~
*edited for a typo

This message was edited May 8, 2006 9:45 AM