How are your fingernails?

GIVE ME LIBERTY,

THE HOSTA NAMED H. LIBERTY!

Who says Hostas are boring? 

This one really catches your attention and they are planted right in front of this home near the entrance!

This spectacular sight greeted me when I went to our Shades of Green Hosta Society of SE MN Committee meeting for their Annual Hosta Sale that is approaching June 6th!


And, they aren't even fully open yet!

A shopping we will go, a shopping we will go.....

Six of us gardening friends went plant shopping together in one car and two vans.  We traveled in a caravan into NE Iowa into the Mennonite area where they have awesome garden centers filled with plants at awesome prices.

Great day to enjoy each other, plant shopping, lunch and great weather!    I think it was about 170 miles round trip, so we had lots of time to chat along the way!

More plant shopping ideas...

Support your local Horticulture School, they are training the future people who will enhance your gardening experiences!

Our local Horticulture Educational opportunity is at RCTC here in Rochester.

Part of their learning experience is learning how to sell the plants they've grown,  so support their Plant Sales.  You also get an opportunity to buy healthy plants at great prices!

 Below are the dates and location for the Rochester MN area:

Ideas to display containers!

While we were in Iowa shopping there were several garden centers that had attractive displays set up to provide ideas.

Actually many of them were creative ideas on how to  display your own containers at home.



Darn, I just knew I should have bought that adorable patio set my neighbor had on sale last year!
 

Yep, I saw several fairy gardens!
 

  

Tip toe thru the tulips......

While at Deb's we also were treated to the sight of several patches of an eye catching little  tulip!

I  need to put this on my fall list of things to get and add to my spring border between the hostas!

Tulip Daystemon Tarda, a species tulip

Check this out for more information on this beauty!

http://www.easytogrowbulbs.com/p-550-tulip-dasystemon-tarda.aspx

Natives that stop you in your tracks when you see them......



They leave you breathless once you see them!

Then you softly ask, what are they?

My gardening friend, Deb, has not one but two patches of these stunning beauties, which are natives enjoying a woodland like area of her gardens.  They were a pass-a-long plant from special friends who influenced her gardening over many years of time.  What an awesome memory every spring of a special couple in her life! 



Double bloodroot, Sanguinaria canadensis ‘Multiplex’