When I was cleaning out my garden last week, I noticed an old flowering stem on a hosta had tiny white spots on the seed pods. When I looked closer, I realized the white spots were roots! I carefully open all the pods and sowed the seeds in a flat of seed mix and covered it with plastic wrap. Look what I have now. Too bad I have no idea which Hosta it came from or which it crossed with.
That's great. It was lucky that you found it!!
That is so cool. I had never thought of watching for this to happen with the old pods. Better be on my toes now, even though I don't need any more hostas. Hope you have a lot of shade..... :-)
Other people have posted that their hosta self seed, but it has never happened for me! LOL Of course I don't have many hosta, but I don't have much shade either. The way my house is situated, the sun comes up on one end and goes down on the other. My only shade is a bit behind a huge cedar tree and one bed behind the house. The one behind the house gets flooded by the gutter if we get too much rain. So these seeds were very lucky indeed-the next good rain would have washed them away. I guess it is time for newer, bigger gutters! LOL I am always trying to come up with a way to do SOMETHING with that bed!
I plucked off the seed stalks one fall, tossed them onto the ground and in the spring had hundreds of seedlings come up where they laid. Best germination I ever had with hosta seeds.
Well what a bunch of clever people you are!! I would never have thought to be quite so observant with my hostas. You have opened yet another door!! Fantastic!!! Way to go Chele!! Once a mother, always a mother - even to hostas!! lol!!
Yeah......things around my place sure do have a way of making lots of babies. giggle
Baby hostas are soooo cute!
lol Chele!!! RiseAnn - I like little things too!! :-)
