Did you mention it to the store manager?

I wasn't sure so I looked on the internet. I will go back this weekend.

My mom purchased a Sum&Substance at Memorial Gardens in Appleton last year. I was looking at her garden the other day, and it has HVX.

I was at the National Hosta Convention last week. We toured about 16 private gardens. One of the gardens had 5 plants that were virused, including one very huge Sum and Substance.

There too? It seems like few places are safe to buy form anymore. Maybe I'll just make an annual trip to FoxFire gardens, so I won't have to worry about it. I wonder if Scenic View offers a guarantee.

Not growing many Hostas, I have never heard of this...could someone elaborate on this condition?

Dave
Franklin

I have about 10 hosta plants. What is this HVX? One more thing I have to worry about? Pondy

The first webpage is information on HVX, and below that is a thread from the hosta forum, with photos I took of infected plants.

http://www.hostalibrary.org/firstlook/HVXUpdate1.htm

http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/hosta/msg062031537966.html?22

I stopped at Memorial Gardens and the Plant Station today. Both places had hostas that had HVX. The lady at the Plant Station was being very rude to customer while I was there so I decided not to tell her, but I did show & explain it to the people at Memorial. I always make sure to tell them it is nothing that they did, it came from their supplier.

I am pretty sure Scenic View claims to be HVX free. I remember seeing it on their price list. I have never seen it there (yet). I am going back up to Crivitz Sunday, so I plan on stopping at Woodland Gardens to get some more hostas. Her plants are huge and disease free.

That lady at the Plant Station is something else. She has a great place, but her business would be better if she was a little more pleasant.

Woodland Gardens sounds nice. - No website, but I found a brief explanation of the gardens.

Woodland Gardens is really nice. She is in the middle of the woods (in the middle of no where). One half of her huge yard is hosta beds, and then the other half is her nursery where she digs up plants you want. You pay a little bit more, but you get a huge mature division. She is only open until July 7th. However you can go until Sept 4th by appointment, your group just have to spend at least $100. She is retiring this year, and next year will only be open by appointment.

The Plant Station-This lady was trying to point out that something was wrong with a plant, and they lady at the Plant Station was saying, "It's on sale for $7.99, you can't expect to get a perfect plant for $7.99!" I was thinking I could pick up lots of perfect plants for under $7.99.

On your recommendation, and that I didn't feel like digging and getting sweaty and dirty on such a beautiful day, I went to Woodland Gardens yesterday. It really is a beautiful place! I have 6 new hosta, but could have left with many more.

If you think about it, tell the Woodland Gardens lady that I think the large flat stone on her deck is unpolished granite, however, I am not positive. If she is interested in getting it correctly identified, she could take it to the granite place on hwy 141.

Doesn't she have some beautiful gardens? If I would have known you were going up there you could have stopped by and visited us in Crivitz. My parents have a place up there, so I was there Saturday until yesterday.

I spent about 2 hours at Woodland Gardens on Sunday. So which ones did you get????

I picked up:
Lakeside Cha Cha
Sea Sprite
Sea Octopus
Flower Power
Yingerii (my friend really wanted this one)

Then Monday on the way home we made an appointment with Ron at the House of Hosta. There I picked up:
Hirao Majesty
Hawkeye
Sultana
Kofukiiwa Fukurin

That was me trying to use self control!

Her gardens are beautiful! I was most taken with her island garden of mini hosta. Do you know what the yellow flowered plant she had growing in most of her beds among the hosta? It's on the tip of my tongue, but I can't remember the name.
Oh, btw.... Did you check for ticks. My husband found one imbedded into his side, and I had to pull it out. *shudder*

You only purchased 8 hosta for yourself? I think you showed a lot of self control. :-)

I would have loved to visit you, but we were only there on Friday. It was a spur of the moment thing - wanting to do something a little different, but only having one day without obligations.

The hosta I got when we were in Crivitz:

Allan P McConnell
June
Little Sun Spot
Pacific Blue Edger
Popo
Sun Power

If I remember right the yellow flowering plant mixed in with her hostas is corydalis lutea. If you like it, I might have some I can dig up.

My friend and I took my dog for a walk on Monday morning while the guys were out fishing. She found 4 ticks on her afterwards. None on myself or the dog.

That's it! lol. I could remember lutea, but not corydalis. Thanks for the offer for the plant, but first I have to completely re-arrange the shade bed.