Here's one from a tour garden. And will take some sun.

Paul

And from my garden.

Paul

I like mine in a pot. But I think growing it near golds will help bring out that dark green better, hence why I grow mine with golden creeping Jenny. It seems to handle the sun very well.

Karen

How about putting it a pot and placed on your deck or patio? It does seem to need to stand alone.

If you all think it does well with sun, perhaps I'll try it near those moonlights...they turn bright, bright florescent yellow through the season, like your lysimachia in the pot, Tepelus.

I have it with some smaller hostas, acting as a back ground plant. Gives some vertical balance to the garden.

Well! My resistance is wearing down . . . these displays of Praying Hands are really lovely! :-). Is this a foreshadowing? Lol

I dont know if I qualify to respond but this is such a unique hosta. It looks good as background in Jim's garden. For some reason I thought Wheee! might be a worthy companion for its wavy edges and colour.

Another possibility is to surround it with golds or another perennial with gold flowers, for example a few gold coreopsis which bloom till frost. I'm likely going to get it (goal to have all HOTY's) so these suggestions are for me as well. :-).

I have mine close to Devil's Advocate just to keep the garden's Yin & Yang happy...

Some like it cold, some like it hot ...
I prefer mine ... in a pot

dave

Mary, I have mine in sun from dawn til 3pm here in MN. And it takes it like a champ.

In my opinion, I think it looks good amongst shorter hosta to kinda break up the height. Here I have it with Roller Coaster Ride and Emerald Tiara. Behind it is Rascal.

Hi Mary, thanks for starting this topic. I'm not really happy with how I've situated my PH, so I'm taking all these suggestions in.

Don Budd owns a local nursery which specializes in hostas. In his personal garden he planted PH in front of Queen of the Seas. I think if he had planted 3 the effect would have looked too contrived. Here's the pic.

I just posted my praying hands in another mini garden posting. I like it with my piece of Tamarisk we got in Arizona and with my minis it looks like a tree

How gorgeous! Ahhhh:-)

Wow, I really like how it looks framed with the Tamarisk, Almost Hooked! Maybe I could "frame it" with some stone.

Irawon...sorry to change topic, but your post has brought fear into my heart...is that QOTHS not huge????! I have put a wave of QOTHS through one of my new beds and now see that they will be WAY TOO BIG, hope they don't grow too fast! I have such a hard, hard time giving the plants the space they need.

Thank you for the generous replies, everyone, I see that I just need to take a leap of faith and put it in...frame it out, or put it by lower ones (I do have some Emerald Tiara, Melissa...)

Well, I had to go look up "tamarisk". The PH looks wonderful silhouetted by the dark brown.

Hi Mary,

Yes , QOTS is a large... at least 24" high by 4 feet wide, a medium grower, not fast and not slow. I'm in somewhat of the same predicament with Artic Blast. I don't know how many QOTSs you have but you could group some of them together for an instant WOW effect. Do you have a picture?

Edited to add that Don's QOTS is not in a lot of sun but he might have grouped three together. He did that with his Patriot clump.

This post was edited by irawon on Sun, Jun 15, 14 at 9:26

Mary, Queen of the Seas is a BEAST if it gets sun. I had a wimpie 1-gallon 3 years ago. By the following year it was already good size. Now, 3 years later and it's at least 4 feet wide.

I also was not a fan of praying hands, until I saw Karen's outdoor pot combined with creeping jenny. That's when I realized that the growth pattern of PH's lends itself to some creative design. I don't know whether I will ever purchase it, but I can see it tucked in an empty space left by larger hostas. It would add interest and texture. If I had confidence in overwintering potted up hostas, I would steel Karen's idea.

Other upright minis, Curly Fries and Corkscrew. I grabbed an Alakazam today at my local garden center and it might move in this bed. I just noticed Corkscrew still has masking tape at the base of the petioles. I don't know how upright it will be when the tape comes off.
Kathy

As long as your plants hang upside down for a while they should be able to hold themselves up pretty good. ;)

Karen

Upright minis....hmmmm. well, I fixied it by clicking the picture and it turns itself right side up.

Melissa, I have what is supposed to be QOTS and it is still tiny and I got it in 2012. IF it is a real QOTS I can try it in full sun and it will start growing? Okay, nothing to lose by doing it. It is not a good example of a plant anyway, and that will be first on my order list next year! I want the REAL THING. Here I've wasted this 3d growing season on it and who knows how many more I'll be able to do heavy duty gardening.

Has yours looked like this one ever in its lifetime?

And incidentally, I have Hands Up, a small contorted thing from Praying Hands. It keeps plugging along. I'll put it in a bowl with other small or mini hosta later this summer. Easier to keep track of small things when they are clustered. This picture shows it best but taken 4/30/2014

Mocc, when I first got my Queen last year, I read that she does better in the ground, that the ripples/piecrusting becomes more produced in the ground. Mine is still in a pot, thrust into the ground, but will be planted soon. Doing well otherwise. Have any more room in your driveway garden, the sublime one? :-)

Jo, not unless it gets moved later. I shall wait until I make a second bed later this summer behind the lattice screen going up in July.