Petioles! - indeed they are 👍 - thank you @Dovefromabove 😊
You should go to Mickfield - definitely - but you’re right to be afraid - very afraid🤣
It’s temptation in foliage form of the very best kind. Just rows and rows and rows of beautiful plants in the very best condition. Not helped by very friendly and knowledgable owners, who are amongst the most unpushy sales staff I’ve ever had the pleasure to meet. They almost seem happier to stand & chat about their babies than take your money.
Best to go with a shopping list & not be side tracked....😊
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Unwilling to provide the horde of snails that plague my garden with any more tasty treats, the only hosta I grow is 'Halcyon'. It has glaucous blue leaves and is snail proof, at least in my experience.
Crikey, never knew hostas were toxic to anything...I don't think slugs and snails have read the manual.
I have some cute little Paradise Puppets in smallish pots and trying to decide what to do with them. ie I want them in pots where they can fend for themselves. Putting them in the borders is not an option. The slugs here are bigger than them.
Hosta plants are toxic to dogs and cats, and some other animals like horses.
For that reason, people with those animals should probably not think about growing these plants.
They're also slug and snail magnets.
So where are these piles of sickly cats and dogs? Please provide hard , science based evidence. I'd rather have hostas in my garden than cats and dogs. To each his own.
We had two terriers visit our garden at the weekend ... they snuffled around the hostas in containers and rootled around energetically under the large patch of H. Blue Angel and the slightly smaller patch of Sum & Substance. They appear to have suffered no ill effects, just as the neighbour's cats who visit our garden uninvited seem to have avoided being attacked by our lilies.
I used to keep horses and ponies including an Exmoor pony who regularly escaped and roamed the village marauding gardens and allotments in his attempt to satisfy his voracious appetite ... he seemed to avoid eating anything that did him any harm. I believe that animals have much more intelligence and instinct for self preservation than some people give them credit for.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Always had hostas in the garden and - until last year - I'd always had cats. They've always co-existed quite happily. Never seen a cat nom-nomming down on a hosta - not even the one who thought he was a puppy & chewed everything in sight.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
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You should go to Mickfield - definitely - but you’re right to be afraid - very afraid🤣
It’s temptation in foliage form of the very best kind. Just rows and rows and rows of beautiful plants in the very best condition. Not helped by very friendly and knowledgable owners, who are amongst the most unpushy sales staff I’ve ever had the pleasure to meet. They almost seem happier to stand & chat about their babies than take your money.
Best to go with a shopping list & not be side tracked....😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
For that reason, people with those animals should probably not think about growing these plants.
They're also slug and snail magnets.
Unwilling to provide the horde of snails that plague my garden with any more tasty treats, the only hosta I grow is 'Halcyon'. It has glaucous blue leaves and is snail proof, at least in my experience.
I'd rather have hostas in my garden than cats and dogs.
To each his own.
I used to keep horses and ponies including an Exmoor pony who regularly escaped and roamed the village marauding gardens and allotments in his attempt to satisfy his voracious appetite ... he seemed to avoid eating anything that did him any harm.
I believe that animals have much more intelligence and instinct for self preservation than some people give them credit for.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Never seen a cat nom-nomming down on a hosta - not even the one who thought he was a puppy & chewed everything in sight.