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Author Message   Terryk  My Weather My Garden My Time Posted on Tuesday, May 16, 2006 - 01:57 pm:    Do the white hostas hold up in the shade? And with all the talk about hosta problems last year, are you ordering this year. I was thinking of buying from Hosta Direct. Any thoughts on your favorite white/green or white/blue would be great. Terryk - NY, Zone "6"   Growingwild  My Weather Posted on Tuesday, May 16, 2006 - 02:14 pm:    It is my understanding that hostas like "White Christmas" need morning sun for the best color. It has been my experience that the lighter/whiter they are the harder they are hit by late frosts. I am thinking that the less chlorophyll in the cells/leaves the less sturdy they are. They do always seem to bounce back just fine though. Growingwild - Arkansas, Zone "7b"   Terryk  My Weather My Garden My Time Posted on Tuesday, May 16, 2006 - 06:36 pm:    Thanks Tommie, I am thinking more of the variegated ones, I should have named the thread different. I have seen 'White Chirstmas' and it does look great. I may have to find a place for that eventually. But I am right now needing to know if I put in some white variegated hostas will they stay true to color in a shady spot. I also stumbled across a web site Made in the Shade which looks interesting.... Terryk - NY, Zone "6"   Jgwoodard  My Garden Posted on Wednesday, June 07, 2006 - 07:47 pm:    Hi Terry, I have had several kinds of white and green variegated hosta for many years in shade. Sorry I don't know the names but all seem to hold the variegation in shade. The shade is deciduous and occasionally gets some dappled light but overall fairly deep. I also have some yellow/blue variegated ones in similar conditions that do not seem to have as distinct variegation in shade (compared to similar plants in more sun), but it is still noticeable. Jgwoodard - Seoul, Zone "7"   Terryk  My Weather My Garden My Time Posted on Wednesday, June 07, 2006 - 09:56 pm:    Thanks Joseph for the feedback. Still have to get some, maybe this weekend I will wonder over to my favorite perennial nursery and come home with one or two. Terryk - NY, Zone "6"   Gardenfiend  My Weather Posted on Saturday, June 10, 2006 - 02:32 am:    Thank you for the information. I've had Ghost Spirit in a pot for a year, now, trying to figure out where it would be happiest. The pot has been standing where it gets about 4 or 5 hours of morning sun. The leaves have a lot of white - just a green rim - and look healthy. So presumably I have accidentally hit on the best situation for it. Now to plant it out (the green snail poison pellets go nicely with the leaves...). Gardenfiend - Germany, Zone "7a"   Gardenbrat  Posted on Sunday, June 11, 2006 - 07:39 pm:    LOL, I know the feeling about the snail poison. I'm glad you brought this question up, I have been looking for WHITE hostas, but they seem hard to find, I want to do a white theme around my fire pit, it only gets about 3-4 hours of sun. I already have some variegated ones and they are doing good, but still trying to find really white ones. Kit Gardenbrat - Ohio, Zone "5"   Terryk  My Weather My Garden My Time Posted on Sunday, June 11, 2006 - 09:46 pm:    I did get some variegated ones this weekend. My nursery man and I were talking about solid whites and he does not know of any. The only one I have heard of is 'White Christmas'. Terryk - NY, Zone "6"   Perkie  Posted on Monday, June 12, 2006 - 01:40 am:    In a friends garden I saw White Feather - it is available here in Holland: Narrow wavy bright leaves in spring that turns greenish later, unusual 'Undulata' sport, I found in my book. There are a lot of Hosta's I love, this one I don't know - until now I did not try to get it. Gerda Perkie - Gelderland, Zone "Nederland"   Patsy  My Weather Posted on Tuesday, June 13, 2006 - 09:30 pm:    Terry, this one is in full shade - poor thing, do you see the damage from the hailstorm we had two weeks ago? Pat Ontario Zone 6   Terryk  My Weather My Garden My Time Posted on Tuesday, June 13, 2006 - 11:11 pm:    That's a nice hosta Patsy, but probably much better looking before the storm. That happened to me a few years back, it's such a shame to see. Do you know the name? Terryk - NY, Zone "6"   Perkie  Posted on Monday, June 19, 2006 - 10:15 am:    When I had so much damage by hail a hosta-grower advised me to cut it back and, he said, within a few weeks you will have a hosta as beautiful as before the hail-storm. I never tried his advice personally. But when I see the damage done, I think I should try. Do you have more hosta's - to give it a try? Gerda Perkie - Gelderland, Zone "Nederland"   Patsy  My Weather Posted on Monday, June 19, 2006 - 08:58 pm:    Perkie, I have many hostas so I think I will try this on a few and see what happens. I never thought to try that. I will let you know what happens. Pat Ontario Zone 6   Patsy  My Weather Posted on Monday, July 24, 2006 - 01:03 pm:    Here's an update. I cut back 2 hostas in out-of-the-way places on June 20. One was a blue, Krossa Regal, which looks the same today as it did then. The other, a green & white (not sure of the name) behaved a little differently. Here's the before : and here it is today (slug damage and all!) It hardly looks any different than after the hail storm. But the method did have limited success. Pat Ontario Zone 6   Perkie  Posted on Monday, July 24, 2006 - 04:28 pm:    But this is another form of damage! In my garden I have little black-blue-ish beetles (don't know them by name) which I think do cause this kind of damage. I try to do them away like lilybeetles - try to catch them by hand, don't know any other methode. In another thread is spoken of damage by earwigs, looks more or less the same - slugs do eat more than this, I think! Gerda Perkie - Gelderland, Zone "Nederland"   Patsy  My Weather Posted on Monday, July 24, 2006 - 05:30 pm:    It's probably earwigs then - I have thousands of them in my yard. Pat Ontario Zone 6

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