Early Hosta Garden
My first Hosta garden was in the shady Jelly Bean Border, between the Lemonwood and the forked Cabbage Tree. Things started slowly with a few tiny mail order Hosta purchases.
Early Hosta Garden - 2000
In early days of the Moosey Garden, new Hostas were automatically planted in here (I remembered to read their height). Unfortunately I then discarded their labels!
The pink rose in the above photograph is a cutting grown pink Flower Carpet rose, which I planted in here when there was less shade. I loved the colour combination it made as it sprawled over this lime green hosta.
Sneaky Watering
I thought that the dappled shade of the Jelly Bean Border trees would provide the perfect location. But I promised to help them on the hottest days of summer with some sneaky watering.
My Hosta Garden - Summer 2004
Other self-sown plants arrived, and started taking over. One year an orange-yellow flowering Ligularia appeared, self-seeded from somewhere else. Naturally lots more followed. Ferns popped up to grow along the border's edge. Ground cover Euphorbias arrived and their thick root systems smothered the soil. So did coarse leafed green Carexes, which grew bulkier and bulkier. It took maybe ten years for nearly all of the Hostas to disappear. And now there's no sign of them when I do some judicious digging in winter. Hmm...