Beautiful! Love that Manhattan!

Linda

Coll, that Manhattan is beautiful. I love the look of it, but it is listed as cupped and many of the photos looked cupped.

I passed it up at one of the neighborhood nurseries. They had it in a gorgeous 3 gallon pot.

Yours doesn't look very cupped. My pecan tree never stops dropping debris, so cupped is a problem. Where did you get yours?

That is such a beautiful hosta, though. I'm jealous.

bk

Manhattan is definitely on my short list! Yours is beautiful!

Bk, I got mine at NH hostas, as that is close enough for me to drive to. Nearly everything they sell are in small pots with only one or two eyes, but I gotta say, everything I have purchased there has done really well for me. I remember that I went there looking for lakeside Ripples, but the owner told me to get Manhattan instead, which I hadn't heard of at the time. I came home with it and looked it up and was disappointed that is was described as very slow, but that hasn't been the case. I do not consider it cupped at all...but like any hosta other than the reverse cupped ones, it will collect tree stuff to some degree.

Lets see, where is my list for fall....ah yes. Addiing Manhattan. This is gonna be expensive! Unless I can find it at Hilltop Farm tomorrow.......

Sandy

Wow, Manhattan is gorgeous! I like the arrangement in the second pic, too. The colour of the blue pots looks great with those hostas.

Col, very nice arrangements. I think I'm going to go shopping for some blue pots. I like how you have yours with a pot within a pot. Do you keep the blue pots in the garden during the winter?

Going hosta shopping tomorrow Sandy? How exciting! I was lucky with my Manhattan find... $8.99. I checked the nursery where I bought mine and they are out of it.

Gesila

Gesila, I try to flip the pots over, but at the very least, I keep them empty. At the end of the season i lift the hosta out of the ceramic pot and bury the nursery liner in the ground. As long as they are not filled with potting soil that freezes and expands, they seem to do fine in the winter. I bought most of my glazed pots at a chain store here in New England that sells a lot of close out or overstock stuff. The prices are great...hard to resist. I try to group the pots in my garden together by color or similarity, as well.

I broke down and ordered Manhattan in a 2 gallon size from Mason Hollow (along with Venus to keep it company on the road). Then I broke down and ordered Key West from Hallson and added Fantasy Island to keep IT company. A couple of weeks ago I got Mississippi Delta and Mardi Gras and Blue Hawaii, and I realized I needed to get those other two major players too. Oh, I ordered a few others too, but that is another story.

One of my neighbors came over today around noon, and wanted to walk the hosta garden. It was so hot we were dripping wet, and I'd wanted to have it cooled and serene back there instead of steaming when this neighbor came. Even as it was, she was impressed and will be back to sit and chat with me about the fragrant hosta. Aha, another fan of fragrant hosta, just down the street! Wait until they start blooming!

My hat is off to you, Moccasin!!! If it gets into the eighties here I feel like I am melting, and my hostas act like it too. It's all what you are used to, I guess.

I have never ordered from Mason Hollow- i'd give them a try if I wasn't totally out of room as it is.... a 2 gallon size sounds great.