Hostas and companion plants for zone 4
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- Опубліковано 20 жов 2024
- Hi everyone. I finally got around to doing a film on my Hostas and shade plants. I garden in a zone 4 and most of my shade gardens get at least 4 hours of sun. I don't know the names of all my hostas but I do know a few. I have gotten a lot of my recent Hostas from an online company, which I will list down below and have learned a lot from a UA-cam channel that I will also list down below. Hope you enjoy!
Hostas www.nhhostas.com
Hosta videos youtube channel Funkie Gardens (Marine on St. Croix, MN).
I tried posting a link but it wasn't working. Hope you can find these videos by the title. Lots of information in these videos on hostas. Definitely worth watching
#hostas #shadegardening #shadeperennials #zone4shadegarden
Thanks for the very good and detailed Hosta review🍁🍁🍁
Most welcome 😊
Love your tour and information. Great information always on the ground covers. You have saved me a lot of heartache in the future by knowing which ground covers are too invasive.
I love hostas yours are beautiful the blue hosta is my favorite
Great garden tour. Loved watching it on a midwest snowy day LOL !! Love your gardens !!
Thanks so much
Thank you, thank you! Learned so much from your commentary. Loved it🌿🌿
You are so welcome!
I can only dream of having a garden half as beautiful as you have created! I love my hostas. The Rainbow's End is on my list now! Gorgeous. I've notice the blue hosta grows at a much slower rate
I love Rainbow's End. I bought another one just the other day. There was a sale and I couldn't resist
@@floralnhardy7332 Plant sales are very hard to resist. I'm a push-over for a nice plant on sale! I think you made the right choice. I don't think I've ever seen the Rainbow's End Hosta but am in love with it.
Hi Susie your hostas still looks good - all my hostas the deer ate them all looks so sad nothing left. Thank you very much for sharing your beautiful garden.
I am happy that I don't have deer. I would probably have to fence in my hostas to keep them away. Sorry to hear about your hostas. Thanks for watching
If you like heuchera, try green spice, you won't be disappointed, it is very hardy, mounded habit, and does well in my 5b zone....great video...TFS
Thanks for the tip!
YES! Though I'm in zone 6 I've had the same experience with Green Spice Heuchera. I started with one tiny plant and have since split it over and over... I now have 6 large mounds of it. It's goregeous
I’m fortunate I live half an hour from NHhosta! 😁😊😁
Thank you for the videos. I enjoy all of your videos, and wait for next one. Empress Wu, what a disappointing plant. The price I paid, and the drama to get it was nor worth. Blue Angel looks much better. Thanks for showing your hostas.
Beautiful hostas!! Love the variegated ones! Ill have to look for those.. I have 4 large maples in the back and have alot room for shade plants. I struggle planting under them as well because of the roots. I have very dry full shade areas so its hard to find plants that will work. Do you know of any that would grow well in dry shade? Thanks for the tour! 😍🌿
Hi Susie,
Your hostas are still looking fresh! My hostas are all eaten with holes all over....thanks for sharing your beautiful 😍 garden with us! 🙏❤️🇨🇦
You are so welcome
Alliums keep bunnies away as they hate the smell. Liquid fence helps and won’t hurt plants or animals :)
I also like NH Hostas and also order when I can’t find something I want locally. ❤️
Thank you for doing this Hosta Tour! Do you have advice on a smaller (max 12 high max 24 wide hosta) for MN zone 4 that you think would look good on a long curved border. Also, which hosta do you find emerges from the ground first after winter? Thank you for sharing your Zone 4 garden. It’s so helpful!
I usually look for giant hostas. They are my favorite, but if I had to pick a Hosta for a curved border, I would pick Golden Tiara, Rainbow's End or Curly Fries. I am also growing Wheee hostas this year and it is really neat looking. Autumn Frost may be a good choice also. Hope this helps. My hostas by my house come up first, which is a lot warmer than other areas in my gardens, but I haven't really paid attention to which ones come up first in my other gardens. Thanks for watching
Crown vetch was the worst! Lol. It took me several years to eradicate from my gardens. It spread like crazy and had a very deep root system.
Can you share your problems with the Empress Wu hasta? Thank you.
I cannot imagine the cleanup you have before with the hostas at the end of season.
I don't cut my hostas back in the fall. I clean them up in the spring and most of the leaves are dried up and not much left. I leave the foliage for more protection for winter
@@floralnhardy7332 Very interesting possibility! I know if I do not clean it up at all it gives the slugs more places to live/hide and multiply! I'm in zone 6 but may try it this year and see how it turns out. Thanks
“Midas Touch” is a yellow-leaved hosta that tolerates sun better than most other yellow hostas. It gets to be 3.5 feet wide.
I'm in Blaine, MN and they carry milorganite at Fleet Farm. Its they only place I could find it.
I found it at Menards-last year though, didn't shop this year😕
@@52janethatcher menards stopped selling it. They have their own natural fertilizer they sell that is also made from biosolids, so it might be similar to milo. I use it on my lawn a couple times a year.
Thanks for the info. I have always gotten mine at Menards and was bummed when they stopped carrying it. I will have to check out fleet farm next year.
Persicarea which is also know as tovara and the one you have is called Painters Palette...hope this helps...TFS
Thank you so much for the name of the Persicaria. You are always so helpful
Your hostas get 6 hrs of sun and aren’t burnt up? Wow mine are on the East side of house and get morning sun and are all burned up
Mine only get the morning sun and maybe a little afternoon. The only Hostas that seem to burn are my blue ones.
Mine only get morning. I planted some elephant ears to shade them. Not big enough yet tho.
Do you have a fleet farm store as they had it (mill organite)
There is a fleet farm that is about 45 min away from me. Thanks for the info
I found it at Tractor Supply (WI) - reasonably priced
What state are you in?
Minnesota
Walmart carries fertilizer
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You could dig up the hostas that are in the ground cover and stick them in a pot until you make sure there isn't any remnant of the ground cover. Hostas look great in containers anyway.
Variegated hosta at 36:00 left of Curley Fries?
I don't know the name of that Hosta. I got it as a bare root Hosta from Brecks and it was supposed to be Raspberry Sundae and it definitely isn't that one. Thanks for watching