Dang it, will have to fix photos in the am. Its well past my bedtime.

Hi Kate, we have all done something like that one time or another. ;)
I will wait . In bed on tablet, need some beauty rest here.

please use the HTML codes ..

on preview.. if you see them we wills see them ...

you the EDIT post feature to change them in your original post

please... i have never seen bridgewood

ken

I went over there a few weeks ago...great place. Also, for anyone in the area, this next open house weekend will be their LAST public opening ever. I'm on their newsletter list, and Chick announced they won't be holding them anymore. So get 'em while you can! :)

I ordered from Bridgewood last year, and at the time I was happy but figured I would stick with field grown over pot grown for size purposes. However, this spring every one of my Bridgewood hostas leaped out of the ground double the size they came. And they were so dad gum easy to just loosen up and plunk in the ground, so that's another plus.

Kate,

I must have just missed you. I arrived about 2:30. Chick told me the same about going home at 5pm. Although did add if we didn't listen we had to buy him dinner. hahaha

Here is my haul:
L-R
Kinbotan
Garnet Prince
Tea and Crumpets
Cold Heart
Short Fat Fannie
LS Beach Bum
Vim and Vigor

copy and paste the links, it is worth it!

Well, I'm glad someone else has Short Fat Fannie. I really like it. Such a cutie, keeps on going. I got it in 2012. It is OS since it has never been tissue cultured.

Sorry about the holes in the leaves. It's a war zone down here.

Here are more I got from them both in 2012 and this year.
Sugar Babe fragrant 2012

My big Squash Casserole back in 2012 March when it first arrived. They ship in pots, by the way.

and on June 2 2014

and some 2012 hosta this year, longissima, Golden Tiara, and Angel From Montgomery left to right

This photo shows Sweet Bo Peep, Invincible, and Fragrant Bouquet this April 2014. All are fragrant ordered in 2012.

This year I ordered 4 Verna Jean and 4 Purple Passions plus Delta Desire. All reasonably priced
Verna Jean surrounding The Razor's Edge

Purple Passion will have the purple flowers before long
Taken May 29 2014

Delta Desire has a certain ....aura...cannot quite put my finger on it.... love the look...new this year...taken May 29 2014

and then Braveheart. It was in 2012 my most expensive purchase. Loved the shiny dark green leaves. It was badly potted and now is recovering. Poor baby. Look at those holes. Taken May 13 2014 needs a new school picture

Fortunei Hyacinthina from Bridgewood was darker of leaf than the one I got from another source. This is from April 2014

And that's all. :)

This post was edited by moccasinlanding on Mon, Jun 9, 14 at 11:51

Hi Kate
I am envious of your list, and of the space you obviously have for planting. Looking forward to the pics!
Jan

Finally got the pictures fixed!

Jan don't be jealous of my space it was all heinous hardened clay 3 years ago, its still a work in progress. A lot of these cuties may be potted up as my husband just announced we may be moving. He works for the government and they move us around quite a bit.

W3CSX you did just miss me! How funny Chick told you that you'd have to buy him dinner. When he told me I'd have to leave by 5 I offered to buy them dinner if I could stay longer!

moccasin, I have remorse for not buying squash casserole now and that brave heart is sure gorgeous!

Thanks for the warm welcome, I plan to be Blocking The Exits, posting Blues Brothers clips and setting up bleachers. :P Allthough I think I'm going to call them stadium seating! :)

This post was edited by Kate1970 on Tue, Jun 10, 14 at 9:09

moccasinlanding I love the pot with feet!!!! Ha! Just caught that!

I tried to use the Jedi Mind Trick to get this one!

==>>> you made me spit coffee on the screen ... lol ...

and i like the martha BURN!!!!!

thx for the pic of the operation ... all that is left is an actual pic of the chick ...

what a haul ...

i am surprised you didnt leave at dawn ... like the blues brothers .. whats this 11am all about.. lol.. its like you waited until the hottest time of day ... to go walk in greenhouses ...

thx

ken

Here is a link that might be useful: i tried googling chick at bridgewood gardens... what the heck is this link all about.. lol...

'am surprised you didnt leave at dawn ... like the blues brothers .. whats this 11am all about.. lol.. its like you waited until the hottest time of day ... to go walk in greenhouses ...'

Ken I was up at dawn, but I was plotting you see. Plus I've worked in greenhouses for several years, the heat doesn't really phase me anymore especially when there are plants in them that I want. I am an auditor for an insurance company. What this means is my office is my car. So I was up at dawn removing my mobile office from the car under the cover of darkness. See my husband knows that the trunk of my car is only empty for dirt or new hostas. Seeing as I just bought a ton of dirt, I knew he'd be skeptical. The next step was waiting for him to leave the house lol. He left around 10:58 to run errands and I skulked out at 11 with an empty trunk and a slightly maddened gleam in my eye as the prospects of what I might be able to find at Bridgewood.

I keep a hosta mad money plant stash, each week I squirrel away money to have a few spring fever plant purchases. When it stops raining (if it ever does) I'll post a separate link with my Hallson's order. My poor husband only knows about Hallson's, he has yet to discover my Bridgewood haul. Maybe it shouldn't stop raining after all! LOL

Glad I stopped back after pics got fixed...looks like you had a fun shopping day. Congrats on your new additions. How long are you gonna wait for the ones that got away? ;-)

Paul

Hey Kate it is a good thing sometimes when the DH thinks you are not organized. I keep moving pots around myself, and mention that some are "gift" plants I wasn't expecting, and when some from HLibrary Auction arrive, I say "now who could this be sending me something!" Not that he objects, it is more he chortles and guffaws and guesses how many there are now. And, he loves to walk among them early in the mornings. He's given up on 400 and went straight to 500. Which is at least temporarily in the right ballpark. I'm gaining on Gesila, who is my role model!

I believe you have come to the right place to find kindred spirits in the hosta garden. :) Thanks for doing the picture HTML code.

About Irish Luck. You simply MUST get it because it looks great AND it is fragrant to boot. Ruffled and shiny green. I bought it for the name since my DH is as Irish as they come.
Taken May 29 2014

I also have Short Fat Fanny which is not tissue culture as the catalog said not doing that. Division of the plant. It is OS. Then SugarBabe is according to Bob Solberg the smallest fragrant hosta, and I got mine from Chick mail order too.

Hey Mocc, be careful, your DH might read your postings when you sleep, and there goes your allowance for a week... (Only kidding)
Bernd

Thank you so much for posting these pics! You got some beautiful hosta :) I know we're all jealous! I actually placed an order with them last fall and have Penny Lane. I had planned to use it for a donation at a hosta swap later the summer, but I want to keep the longer I have it. Here's a pic of it arriving last fall.

Bernd, I really do have an allowance--how did you guess? It keeps me in mulch and pots and mix and a wee few hosta on occasion too. ;) DH enjoys my/our hosta too. HE cannot believe they are doing as well as they are.

Then its settled, must have Irish Luck!!!! Half the plants I own have been *cough* gifts. Or so my DH's thinks. :) So now that I've found THES (The Hosta's Enablers Society). Where's the 12 step program? :)