GardensJohn's blog: Moved my Hosta

I finally moved part of my Hosta this spring. I inherited it when I bought my house 23 years ago. I've been planning to move it for several years, but simply never got around to it. I am new to moving plants and I am always pretty nervous when I do it. But it seemed to really like it! I divided what I dug up and got three really nice sized clumps so far. So what did we get that night? The first torrential down pour in years. But for the first time in 23 years that I can remember, we had a huge hail storm with it. Mostly pea sized hail stones, but some quarter sized stones as well. The Hosta clumps I moved only had a little damage (whew!) because the trees I planted them under shielded them. But when I looked at the part I had not moved - it really got beat up! Wow! Later this summer I moved the rest of it. Had I moved it when I moved the other part I would have spared it the humiliation it experienced. I was surprised how quickly they started growing and spreading! They obviously liked being divided and moved. I don't know what kind of Hosta it is, so if anyone on here cares to help me out I would appreciate it.

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