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mini hosta

Dottie:

Miniature bleeding hearts: wonderful idea! Will add them to list of
plants I'm considering for garden of mini-hosta.

For those who missed the original post, I created the mini-hosta garden
just a little over a week ago. It's 6x15, along one side of the house so
it's somewhat sheltered. While the garden looks good with several
varieties of mini and small hosta and some rocks, the tall daylilies I
planted at the rear just don't seem to fit. So I'm yanking them out and
planting them elsewhere yet this summer.

Other small plants under consideration for the mini-hosta garden: fern,
astilbe and (for early spring bloom) iris, tulip, daffodil. All are
miniature types, of course.

Am also considering creation of a small mound (small berm?) toward the
center of the bed with a medium- or small-growing hosta on top with mini
hosta surrounding the mound.

Mini and small hosta in the garden: Little Aurora (gold); Blue Cadet;
Birchwood Parky's Gold; Just So (beautiful yellow center, green edge);
Venusta (3-inches tall, green with plenty of bloom); Venusta variegated
(a dainty cutie, yellow/near white center, green edge, it's peaking out
at the bottom of a rock stolen from the Rockies); and a couple others
that have no tags (lost them in move to another house a year ago).

I also have hosta patches in various spots in the perennial borders;
these are where the big ones grow. Also have 2 small hosta gardens with
several varieties in each. I particularly enjoy fragrant hosta and have
a few varieties (looking for more).

Minis make nice edgers for a hosta garden or along a shaded path, in a
shaded rock garden, even in a weathered log drug out of the woods (hosta
is planted in holes in the log and along the bottom). I had such a log
in my former hosta garden, but had to leave it behind (did remove the
plants, though, along with 5 van loads of other perennials and several
small shrubs and floribunda roses). Chunks of lightweight lava rock
could also be "planters" for mini-hosta.

Until a year ago, when I was slowed considerably by arthritis, I
operated a retail perennial nursery specializing in hosta. I hope to
return to selling hosta on a limited basis in a year or two. I still do
landscape consultations, but don't install anymore.

Great growing to you all!

John G. Adney
Marion, Iowa (east-central Iowa next to Cedar Rapids)
One the line of zones 4-5.

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