Giant Hostas - Long, Strange Trip 2016
I've written about the hostas at our old house a few times here on the blog in the past and being part of our shade gardens, they're one of my favorite things to tend to. Perhaps it is because I grew up down in Frankfort on a heavily wooded lot that just about only allowed my Mom to have shade gardens? Or, that they're mostly the domain of perennials that come back each year and there's something magical about those? I dunno. But...one way or the other, I like shade gardens. We had a really nice, maturing set of shade plants on the north side of our old lot. We had ferns, astibiles , and plenty of hostas . All sorts of hostas. Some, like these , I picked up at Menards. Some, were left overs from when the wicked lady moved out of the house and she *thought* that she plucked every last perennial out of the gardens only for us to discover the next year that SOME came back including some hostas. And a special plant that came from my sister Sharon's house i