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HOSTA 'BLUE ANGEL'
I've have a Hosta Blue Angel in a 7" GC pot and showing four very healthy shoots. As this is a very large variety I would appreciate some advice on what size container I should start with. The slug/snail population in my garden dictate planting out is not an option!
Hope you can help, thank you.
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The main thing is to pot on regularly, rather than put into final size pot immediately. I would pot into the next pot you have , which is slightly bigger.
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I agree with Punkdoc - in my experience Blue Angel takes a little while to work up to being 'very large'
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Yes, and give it the best compost you can and don't forget to feed it as well as watering regularly as most composts only contain fertiliser for 100 days.
Be careful about the shape of pot too. I have had a Sum and Substance in a pot for several years and needed to pot it on this year. The top of the pot curves in so I ended up using a bread knife to carve it into 9 portions like a noughts and crosses board and then lifted out the centre so I could free the remaining chunks. Now I have 2 lumps in straight sided pots for me to grow on and 7 more potted up to swap with friends or sell at our charity sale in May. Hostas don't mind being divided in spring but the big leaved ones take a couple of seasons to regain their size of leaf.
Have to agree about using straight sided pots, I just dismembered an amaryllis .
Thank you all for your replies; hosta will be rehoused in a straight sided pot of suitable size with good compost. I've tried for the first time this year, organic liquid seaweed fertiliser on other plants, so perhaps the hosta will respond well to this feed?
Know only too well the perils of pots with incurved rims!!
Thanks once again