Wonderful! And no frost damage! What's the name of the blue cupped one in the 8th picture?

Gesila

Gesila it is a A. Drinking Gourd, and has started looking much better that last few days ..color wise..

Beautiful pictures and great hosta!

And I was so glad to see an example of something I am getting ready to do- using rocks as nameplates. I swear, I have spent as much money on tags as I have on hosta in the last five years!

I am pulling out my third set, metal plates on thin stakes. I have big feet and my dog also has big feet. We walk through the garden and either smash or pull up the stakes.

With rocks I figure that we will probably just push then further into the mulch.

I got some fine-point markers at an artist's store that will mark stone and says permanent. So I hope they last in weather.

chris