Re: getting ready for winter

It was my understanding the walnuts put off a chemical
that was problematic for many plants including hosta.
I'm going to do what I suggest others do and research
the question.
Of course whatever I find to say they do suffer will
not disprove your experience.

--- Viktoria Serafin <viktoria@glenbrookplants.com>
wrote:

> "I knew that hosta don't do so well under walnut..."
> 
> Why not?  I have hundreds of hostas growing under
> walnuts and I have 
> observed no ill effects.
> 
> 
> 
> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 3:04 PM
> Subject: RE: getting ready for winter
> 
> 
> > All true but I suggest that one learns what
> > specifically should be done about the problems
> that
> > hosta DO suffer from. Southern Blight is a soil
> borne
> > fungus, it must be treated at appropriate times in
> its
> > life cycle and fall "cleanup" is not one of those
> > times.
> > Our gardens are not "natural habitats" but they do
> > resemble natural habitats in that more natural
> rules
> > do apply than don't.
> > I offer that this is a place to teach and learn so
> the
> > hobby gardener can learn the things that will help
> and
> > those that will hurt. Ray for example is a well
> known
> > good grower, so if he researches my position and
> comes
> > back and teaches me what I don't know and
> reaffirms
> > what I do know.
> > I knew that hosta don't do so well under walnut
> and
> > water maples but did not know that they suffer
> under
> > magnolia grandiflora. As others add what are good
> > canopy and bad canopy tress we all move forward.
> > To not use this type of forum to teach and learn
> dumbs
> > down the whole. I know that was not your
> intention,
> > I'm asking you to rethink your approach.
> >
> > --- "W. George Schmid" <hostahill@Bellsouth.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Gentlepersons,
> >> You are right, yet you may be a bit wrong, too!
> >>
> >> Yes, I agree, Mother Nature does it best. I spend
> >> many days in the Blue
> >> Ridge mountains during all seasons and I marvel
> at
> >> the way everything works.
> >> The woods soil is something to die for and it is
> the
> >> accumulation of eons of
> >> falling leaves and needles, not to speak of
> branches
> >> and even trees. To see
> >> rows of native orchids growing on a rotting tree
> >> trunk in Slickrock
> >> Wilderness is a wonder.
> >>
> >> In Japan hostas grow the same way. Their native
> >> habitat provides all they
> >> need, just as our native plants feed on nature's
> own
> >> detritus;
> >>
> >> BUT
> >>
> >> Hostas are strangers in our world. What I am
> getting
> >> at is that our native
> >> conditions may present challenges hostas do not
> face
> >> in their native
> >> habitat. I have never seen heat-dormant hostas in
> >> Japan as one would see
> >> here in the baking, hot South. My point is that
> >> hostas are not endemic to
> >> North America and there is a possibility that
> here
> >> they may encounter
> >> adverse conditions and/or virulent pests unknown
> in
> >> Japan. Another point is
> >> that gardens are not a native habitat. There is
> no
> >> balance of nature in
> >> gardens. Grow hostas under a Magnolia grandiflora
> >> and leave all the leaf
> >> detritus in place during late fall and winter and
> >> you will find out very
> >> quickly that the hostas will quickly disappear.
> >>
> >> It may be better for inexperienced gardeners to
> >> clean up before winter. The
> >> old hats at gardening know where to look for
> warning
> >> signs under all that
> >> trash. A newcomer may not know and find out too
> late
> >> that Southern blight
> >> has attacked and decimated his precious hostas
> while
> >> they were covered up.
> >> Let's see now: I have never seen reports of
> Southern
> >> blight attacking native
> >> hostas in Japan. QED!
> >>
> >> My nickel's worth with apologies to those who
> have
> >> been able to make their
> >> garden a "natural" habitat. George
> >>
> >> W. George Schmid
> 
>
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Butch 
Conflict is as addictive as 
cocaine, alcohol, cigarettes,etc
I'm sorry to report that
cooperation is not

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