Hi all - I have some Francee Hosta's that are... get this... reblooming. They sprouted up nice buds this summer and bloomed nicely. Now all of a sudden more stems came up and more buds/blooms.
Now, I live in Minnesota, and winter will be here sooner than I like to admit. I thought that this was weird.
Anyone else seeing this in their gardens??

I did not have any reblooming on any hostas that i have in Wisc [not sure about in IL since i wasn't home most the season]

but I had LACK of blooming. Many of my hostas in Wisc did not even bloom this year.
I know for a fact Guacamole did not bloom, as i was looking forward to it this year.
Many of the newer plants i have, that i got last August, those did not bloom either.

I'm wondering if weather has anything to do with it. We had extremely WET June and July - then a very DRY August and September and going into Oct... I can not even recall the last time it rained anything measurable here. [i think in June and July combined we had about 30 inches! ]

I guess there is always next year.

I can't recall any reblooming this year, but last year Cutting Edge rebloomed and I think something else - maybe Little Sunspot, did too.

Tiny White Lines rebloomed for me. This week -end we are slated to get our first freeze.

I thought I'd noticed a couple reblooming but dismissed it as being my imagination. Now there is one that has a fresh stem of flowers though the leaves are all but gone.

i also have some blooms although initially i thought is was only a late bloomer - now i remember that i had cut down all the stocks - strange weather year.

22 degrees here this morning -- I am sure all the blooms are done now...

Here we are with it nearly Halloween, hardly anything left of 'Twist of Lime' except for the blooming scape

Thanks for sharing, Moby. that is very cool.

This is not a very clean picture. After several nights of freeze, there is still a bloom!

St. Elmo's Fire

Kinda fun, huh? I have an iris blooming too.

Well, I certainly don't ever have iris rebloom so I better be thankful for that little hosta.

wow -- that is so cool that you have iris blooming -- I did still have a daylily blooming with buds up until last week... it is a real real late bloomer and of course I lost the tag on that one... no idea what it is but it is pretty....

I call that "pretty".

First really hard freeze coming tonight (25 degrees is a big freeze for us :-). Went to cover containers and such, saw this Patriot bud. Been in the container for two years. Guess it likes it--the slugs can't get to it, either! :lol:

Heh, enjoy it!! It is going to be a long time before I see any buds. We're under a blizzard warning.

That is so nice to see since we just got buried under 15 inches of snow!!!!

ACK! I'm originally from South Bend and also lived in Denver for some years, so I feel for you. Glad the photograph helped.

When my hostas are only 1-2 years old I actually cut the blooms/stalks back because I read that the plant will put more energy into rooting and leaf development that way, but sometimes it backfires and up sprouts just as many new stalks!

The only time I cut off scapes/buds is if the plant is newly planted or not in the ground yet. But once or twice I've had them throw up new scapes after being cut. I wasn't sure if they were reblooming or if the new scapes were just later in coming up than the others.