Calling All Hosta Lovers!

Thanks to Cathy Brown for sharing her father ’s inspirational story !

" Barney Spearman is an 80 - year - old hosta fancier in Dayton , Ohio , and his backyard hosta garden is spectacular . Barney has about 40 unlike species of Hosta , and probably about 200 total plants , knavishly arranged around stone nerve tract ( he in person collected and installed the stepping stones as they were excavated from nearby construction internet site . )

Barney likes to feature several of the ” Hosta of the Year ” as selected by the American Hosta Society . He appreciates that these plant are lively , well-heeled to farm , and gentle to maintain , and he suggest that gardeners should employ these as a guide for planting . While Barney started several of the works from fellow hosta gardners , he has also purchase many others from local nurseries . His favorites admit : June , Stained Glass , Segae , and Paul ’s Glory .

Barney ’s glorious garden has produce and flourish , because , once give , genus Hosta can be split up into 3 - 4 new plants every season . He enjoin , “ I have shred to ID each mintage in the garden . I simply cut a hybrid plane section of a hard wood and used a stiff conducting wire to aim the painted ID next to the plant . ” Annuals are intermingle in hypertufa heap which Barney hand score from peat moss , portland cement , and pearlite . The plants he likes to include are begonias , astilbes , impatients , and fern . He pick out the plants establish their power to maturate in the shade . "

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