Ticker said:While we were wandering around Philip's gardens, when my husband, Dan, happened to notice a little hosta that he really liked. It was Baby Bunting. Philip wasn't dividing his just yet, but, the next place we went to, Web Walk Way, had it and now so do we. This is one of the first times Dan has ever taken an interest in my hostas. Slowly but surely I'm bringing him to the dark side. LOL
That's awesome! My husband will praise my gardening efforts, but he usually doesn't get excited about anything, until...my he went on a mission with our kids to find me a hosta that I wanted for Mother's Day. I tried to make it easy on him: when my daughter asked which hosta I needed for my collection I told her one I knew would be easy to remember and that was at the local nursery--'Maui Buttercups." So, the Saturday before Mother's Day, off my family went. But...
the nursery was sold out of 'Maui Buttercups.'
So my little troupe asked the nursery staff to explain why they'd said they had the plant in (they'd called ahead) when actually they didn't. The manager was apologetic. She looked over the entire nursery to make sure they didn't have one set up with a display somewhere. No luck. So they picked out 'Blue Mouse Ears' instead. I already have a BME, but now I have two more. You can never have too many BMEs, right?
At any rate, I think that trip started to make DH interested in hostas...just a little. I told him that I wanted to put some Star Trek themed hostas in my next bed and he was pretty excited. I pointed out some photos of 'Captain Kirk' and 'Vulcan' and 'Enterprise.' He said, "Well, the bed can't just have three hostas..." So he came up with the idea for a sci-fi theme, which opens the field up a lot. I like the way he thinks. hehe