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HOSTA – Marilyn Armstrong

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Hosta – July 15, 2019

I think it’s possible that you can’t kill a Hosta unless you dig it up and throw it in a trash can. Otherwise, they seem to be impermeable to weather, drought, flood and getting eaten by miscellaneous wild creatures.

We had a few Hosta when we moved into this house. I moved them to a sunnier location and they have thrived ever since.

There are also some large violet leaves mixed in. Violets — at least the wild ones — are also unkillable.

Yellow and green

Dark green, yellow edges

All dark green

NOTES FOR THE HUNGRY:

Hostas are edible when young and sheltering when older. … In fact, the Japanese have been eating hostas safely for centuries. Known as urui, they’re commonly boiled, fried in tempura or eaten raw. With a flavor reminiscent of lettuce and asparagus, they can easily be substituted in salads.

I’m sure they are best when they are fresh and not when they’ve had a whole summer to turn to leather.

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15 replies

  1. Bette A. Stevens
    07/15/2019 • 16:14

    Edible! Who knew? 🙂 Now I do! Will have to add a few leaves to my next salad. 🙂 xo

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  2. Cee Neuner
    07/15/2019 • 11:57

    Beautiful photos. 😀

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  3. swo8
    07/15/2019 • 11:26

    Love those hostas, they a great fill in plant.
    Leslie

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  4. Hammad Rais
    07/15/2019 • 04:32

    These hostas are really wonderful 🙂

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    • Marilyn Armstrong
      07/15/2019 • 12:34

      I gave them a corner of their own so they don’t take over the garden. They have a really solid root system. Give them and inch and they want the whole area. I also planted a bunch deep in the woods where they are still growing. I can’t see them anymore because other things have grown in front of them, but these are the ONLY plants I know of that will grow in full sun and full shade.

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  5. angloswiss
    07/15/2019 • 03:03

    Your hostas are very similar to mine. This year, for the first time after 18 years, I have two baby hostas growing, from their seeds. They always bear large seed pods in Autumn and I just leave them to disperse, but never noticed that they germinated, but now it has happened

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  6. Kiki
    07/15/2019 • 02:42

    This is great fun, because I can’t, for the life of me, keep any hosta alive. The snails and other beasts eat them up right to the sole remains of the risps. I call them lace plants for this reason!

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  7. Sue Vincent
    07/15/2019 • 01:45

    I love hostas… until the slugs get them. But they always come back 😉

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