I'll do the pre-emergent today!!! Thanks Ann.

AlwaysWeeding said:To kill slugs.

**DUH!!** i knew that!!

I actually have my spray bottle on the back patio. Found some HUGE ones out back what i moved my "tool chest on wheels"
I just havent spritz my beds yet.

If you found some HUGE ones, why didn't you just step on them or pick them up and drop in salty water? It's the little ones that are hard to find.

they are usually stuck on the bottom of my tool cart. i just squirt them and they fall off. stepping on them, they just get pushed into the damp soil... doesnt kill them. i've tried, got 4 more today.

I'm back.Great comboz everyone.

All of your pictures are so pretty I'm hesitant to show mine. This is a new bed, just started this spring, by my front walk. The plants are all brand new, so most are small (except the 'Regal Splendor,' which was a lovely mutant when I bought it.)

Clockwise from the top are 'Regal Splendor,' 'Orange Marmalade,' 'June,' 'Designer Genes,' and 'Blue Ivory' right next to 'Designer Genes.' In the upper left next to the hellebores is 'Sno Cone.'

Karen, Every new bed starts out looking like yours. What is fun is to watch its progress over the summer and the coming years. Please do post pictures of its progress.

Karen, my new bed looks the same. They will grow and fill in.

And they will be your very own little slices of heaven, Hosta Heavens.

It definitely is fun to watch new beds progress. I just find it hard to resist the temptation to cram things much closer together than they should be so things look fuller sooner. But I know my hostas will grow better if I give them some room.

Karen - you've got a great start on that bed. Enjoy them as they grow. (And don't be afraid to study them and move them around a bit if you think they'd look better in a slightly different arrangement - most of us do that regularly.

Kit and Gary you need to stop to let me catch my breath! Your combinations are inspiring. Can you teach us how you make the beds so eyecatching. Don't tell me you just buy em and plunk em in as you go. Thanks for sharing.

I learn so much fromothers.
This is the new garden for Giant Hostas.
Blue umbrellas
Blue Mammoth
Elegans
Drinking gourd
Great Arrival.The front is planted with Hakone and heuchera Plum Pudding.

Very nice Jo Ann

Thanks it has a long way to go .

The new beds are beginning to look decent now.

A different view of the same bed.

Oh yeah, those are looking good.

Striptease is in the lower left of the picture? You will be amazed at how big it will be in two years. Mine is a really fast grower!

Susan
I wish I could say there was a method to our madness. Fortunately my wife has a better eye than I do so when she is faced with a pile of new hostas to find homes for I think she has done a real nice job with what she has to work with. We have a lot more hostas than we have room for. This year we are not planning on buying many new ones at all. We have a lot of new seedlings we have to find room for. Here is a pic of one of our newer gardens we put together summer before last.

Gary