The Newsletter for the Upstate New York Hosta Society (unyhs)
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- Hosta Cut Leaf Show
- Future 2018 Meetings: February
- May 12th
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- UNYHS.org
- Holiday Party: December 9th in the Fellowship Hall at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church, Corner of Glen Ave and South Reynolds St., Scotia, NY beginning at 12:00 Noon
- Please Bring your Beautiful Photos to our Holiday Party!
- The categories for this year’s photo contest are as follows: BEST Shade Plant (s) that is NOT a Hosta. BEST Hosta in a Pot (plain pot or decorative pot)
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania June 20-23, 2018 "Phifty in Philly"
- Hotel : DoubleTree by Hilton Philadelphia - Valley Forge For More Information : Visit the www.ahs2018philly.org .
- The Competitions
- HOSTA CARE Prepared by: Dave, Cindy and Chris Jennings The Hosta Cottage at Woodfield Estates, 10 Woodfield Ct, Malta, NY 12118
- HARDENING OFF THE PLANTS
- Page 9 of 11 PLANTING
- EXPOSURE TO SUN/SHADE Some people like to refer to Hosta as “Shade Loving Plants” but we prefer to refer to them as SHADE TOLERANT
- Page 10 of 11 PESTS AND DISEASES
- REFERENCE SOURCE for this Fact Sheet: Personal Experience and “The New Encyclopedia of Hostas” by Diana Grenfell and Mike Shadrack - Timber Press Publishing.
Committee Reports
Annual Fundraiser Sale at Faddegon’s Garden Center “Save the Date Now” and plan to help out! August 11th…we will Open to the public at 9 am until sold out about noon. This is also a good time to think about which clumps you plan to dig, divide and pot up as donations to our sale Holiday Party: December 9th in the Fellowship Hall at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church, Corner of Glen Ave and South Reynold's St., Scotia, NY beginning at 12:00 Noon 
From Cindy Jennings Holiday Party Chair Helping Hands for the Holidays: We have decided to continue with our traditional theme again this year of "Helping Hands for the Holidays" It was decided that we would ask both the Hosta and Day Lily members to donate a NEW toy or children's book towards the Ronald McDonald Houses located near and in Albany Medical Center. The three-house complex has a special "Toy Closet" where a child can select one toy to take with them when heading for surgery or a major procedure at the Medical Center. Cindy asked that those willing to donate should be careful to not purchase toys from bulk imported stores where the toy may not have US Safety Approval due to the way it is manufactured. Also, please do not wrap the gift. The ages for the toys or books should be 2 to 8 years old. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Cindy (Email UNYHS@aol.com or call 518-541-3598). Page 4 of 11
Members who would like to be involved in a Holiday Gift Exchange should wrap a gift with an average price of $15.00 in value and bring it to the party. Please do not place any nametags on your gift. Only those who bring a gift to exchange are eligible to participate. We will use the same exchange rules as last year with each gift only being permitted to be swapped once, however due to more people attending, you will have to be prepared to make your swap within one minute after your number is pulled or you will be asked to just take a new unopened gift from those remaining! More details: As is our tradition, each member is asked to bring their own place setting and a favorite holiday dish to pass. A stove is available if food must be held at a warm temperature. As in the past, everyone is encouraged to bring a door prize to donate to make our festivities more memorable. If you have questions on the Holiday Party, please send an e-mail to Cindy at: UNYHS@aol.com or feel free to call her at (518) 541-3598 
Please Bring your Beautiful Photo's to our Holiday Party! Since members had so much fun at our first two photo contests, we thought we would repeat it again at this year's Holiday Gathering. So please sort through all those beautiful photos you have taken! Photos must be 5" X 7" size with no frames or mats. We still feel that the cheapest place to obtain the enlargements is at Wal-Mart, Target, Rite Aid, CVS, etc. but if you know of a better source…please let us know! When you arrive at the meeting, each member who will be entering photos will select their own mat color and mount their photos. A black or white mat will be supplied. Please place your name on the back side of each photo. Each member may submit up to two (2) photos per category.
With permission, Dave Jennings would like to again scan your photo's so that they can be used in one of our future newsletters. (A simple permission Form will be distributed at the meeting). He will return originals once they are scanned for future use in our Shades of Green Newsletter if you request them. So please consider entering those beautiful photos and of course ribbons will be once again awarded! AGAIN, Please contact Cindy (UNYHS@aol.com) if you have any questions. Page 5 of 11
CUSTOM EMBROIDERED SWEATSHIRTS Several members have expressed an interest, so we are considering working with the same lady that did our embroidered shirts some 7 years ago now, so everyone can have new clothing to wear to our upcoming events and the Hosta Convention this summer! Her Quality and Prices are excellent. She would be doing Classic Full Zip Hooded Sweatshirts for this first order if approved and then we could expand our options into polo shirts, carry bags and/or other items as interest allows. We would be starting out with just one custom HOSTA color combination this time with all the sweatshirts to be royal blue for this first order. Of course, this will have to be approved at our next meeting for this to become a reality.
For complete details: Visit the www.ahs2018philly.org The Delaware Valley Hosta Society is pleased to host the 2018 Convention, marking the 50th anniversary of both the founding of the AHS and its first convention, which took place near Page 6 of 11 Philadelphia. The convention will be jam packed with everything you expect: outstanding private gardens featuring the best in hostas and companion plants, a Hosta Show and seedling competition, a bevy of vendors and speakers, and the best of Philly music, food, and hospitality. Early Bird registration of only $299.00 per person was just recently announced. As an extra-special treat, the entire convention will have the opportunity to visit Longwood Gardens for a late after-noon/evening visit with this optional event registration of only $38 per person. This way everyone that so chooses can also witness the incredible new Main Fountain Garden show of water, sound, light, and fire! Hotel: DoubleTree by Hilton Philadelphia - Valley Forge For More Information: Visit the www.ahs2018philly.org. 
Phifty in Philly Philadelphia, rich in history, artistic culture, and legendary sports, has also been declared America's Garden Capital. Topping the crown of garden gems is the fabulous Longwood Gardens, with its completely renovated Main Fountain Garden and shady Hillside Garden. The Gardens We'll be visiting seven private gardens, from suburban paradises to awesome estates, on air-conditioned motor coaches. Feast your eyes on extensive hosta collections, an astounding array of special companion plants, and landscape features that will entice, excite, and overwhelm! As an extra-special treat, we will be taking the entire convention to Longwood Gardens for a late after-noon/evening visit, so that everyone can witness the incredible new Main Fountain Garden show of water, sound, light, and fire! Page 7 of 11
For the 50th anniversary convention, we'll be presenting hostas, hostas, and more hostas in our "Educational Experiences." The keynote presentation is from Bob Olson, long-time editor of The Hosta Journal, on Fifty Years of Hostas and Hosta People. The Warren I. Pollock Hosta Symposium will feature three presentations in rapid-fire format for great inter-action with the presenters. Other presentations include hybridizing process toward knock-out hosta flowers, and use of aeroponic propagation.
We anticipate a great selection of vendors, including Mason Hollow, Glenbrook Farms, Rare Find Nurseries and more. Special shopping opportunities exist at two of our tour gardens (Cairnsgrove for hypertufa troughs and Mill Fleurs for specialty perennials). And make a special visit to Russell Gardens Wholesale, where conventioneers can purchase great plants at amazing prices. The Competitions Of course, we will have a great hosta show, and some fun competitions (TBA) as well, designed to get everyone involved. The Extras We're working to make every part of the event special, from the opening night Meet & Greet, to the Longwood trip, an innovative auction schedule (followed by a birthday party), and an elegant anniversary party to end it all. As well we can help you plan your own extra ways to visit Philadelphia and to celebrate your LOVE of hostas. Page 8 of 11 HOSTA CARE Prepared by: Dave, Cindy and Chris Jennings The Hosta Cottage at Woodfield Estates, 10 Woodfield Ct, Malta, NY 12118 Phone (518) 541-3598 or E-mail (dlj8@cornell.edu) INTRODUCTION It seems like we’ve always been gardening with Hosta, but its only been within the last 30 years or so that we’ve been “Bitten by the Slug” (Please excuse the play on words!) Guess you can call us true “HOSTAholics” now. We’ve even attracted more aficionados to our group by founding the Upstate New York Hosta Society back in 1996. Like most people, we began growing Hosta in places throughout our gardens where nothing else seemed to do well, especially in the more heavily shaded areas. As our giant forest trees matured and their tall shade became the rule rather than the exception, we expanded the Hosta plantings more each year, and began collecting assorted more exotic varieties in our travels. We’re now at the point where we’ve begun to thin out our collection and only allocate space to our more favorite varieties. We moved over 250 different varieties to our new home in Malta and scattered them throughout our small half acre suburban garden with a few varieties simply young divisions kept for identification purposes. Only our favorite clumps are given the room necessary to become mature and established. You may be interested to learn that the name Hosta was first proposed by an Austrian botanist by the name of Leopold Trattinick in 1812 to honor another Austrian botanist by the name of Nicholas Thomas Host. Another generic name, Funkia, was proposed by Kurt Sprengel five years later but has been rejected as illegitimate, even though it still continues to be occasionally used today. Hostas are native to the Orient, and of Japan in particular. Englebert Kaempfer who lived from 1651-1715, has been documented as most likely the first Westerner ever to see a Hosta and certainly the first to ever draw and describe one. The Hosta affectionately referred to as the “AUGUST LILY” (Hosta plantaginea) was the first species to arrive in Europe (Paris to be exact) somewhere between 1784 and 1789. It was also the first Hosta we were attracted to because of it flowers with it’s beautiful trumpet shaped white aromatic blooms. Yes, we realize most of you think Hosta flowers are basically plain and distracting, but you obviously haven’t grown any of the plantagineas or the Fragrant Bouquet series with their beautiful fragrant blooms. HARDENING OFF THE PLANTS Your first consideration is what do you have to do to harden the plant off once you get it home. If it’s early in the season, then you need to be concerned with killing frosts. Although the plants will take cool temperatures, they need to be protected from frosts. They also need to be gradually acclimated to their final growing place, especially if they are young Tissue Cultured (TC) plants or plants bought from inside a greenhouse. We suggest you first place them, container and all in the location where you will plant them for longer periods of time each day over a two-week period until they are fully accepting of that site. If it’s too cold out yet, then they need to be placed inside in a sunny window until Spring actually arrives! Be sure the first few days you do put them out, you keep them out of all sun and extremes in temperature. Then as the days progress, you can slowly expose them to less favorable conditions and finally plant them out once they become fully adjusted to their new environment. SOIL TYPES 
Hostas will tolerate a wide range of soil types and pH’s but seem to do better in a friable soil, rich in organic matter with a slightly acidic pH of around 6. It needs to able to hold adequate moisture yet also be well drained. They can even be grown in very sandy soils if they are amended with copious quantities of organic matter and given plenty of water. We do not recommend simply amending the planting hole, since this encourages the roots of your prized Hosta to stay confined to the small area where the soil was amended, and they won't expand beyond the boundaries of the whole just dug seeking out the critical moisture they need to thrive. Instead we recommend amending the entire planting bed the Hosta will be planted into. A good organic mulch also helps to encourage the health and vigor of the plants root system. Although they will tolerate a wide range of soil types, the bottom line is, the better the soil, the better the plant will do. Page 9 of 11 PLANTING Hosta should be planted at the same height it was previously grown at. If you plant it too deeply, you will encourage crown rot and if you plant it too shallow, it will be prone to drying out and frost heaves. Hostas do best when planted in Spring or the early Fall, being sure to allow adequate time for the plants to become established before soil temperatures drop significantly. Always spread the roots out adequately in the planting hole to allow them to become well established. When planting those that have been grown in pots, you’ll usually find a good percentage of the time that the roots have become pot-bound and enmeshed at the bottom of the container and will need to be teased out of their entwining pattern. Once planted, each new transplant will require about a gallon of water each day until they are properly established. Although not mandatory, many people choose to use one of the commercially formulated starter solutions containing root inducing hormones or vitamins. Once the plants are well watered, then we encourage you to add a nice thick (About 3" to 4"- Be careful however because too thick isn’t good either) layer of organic mulch around the plant (DO NOT USE PEAT MOSS as a Mulch though because water simply bounces off the Peat instead of soaking in once it dries. FERTILIZING This is probably one of the most controversial areas regarding Hosta Care. Some people actually feel that some Hostas show their most interesting characteristics when they are a little nutrient deficient. The proper growing medium and supplying adequate water are certainly more important than fertilization. Since Hosta are monocots like grass or corn, fertilizers specific to them should work best for Hosta as well. One of the least expensive types is the simple granular 10-6-4 available at most farm and garden centers. Be sure to read and follow labeled instructions carefully though since too much fertilizer can burn them. It has been reported that foliar applications of water soluble fertilizers are particularly helpful to Hostas in promoting darker and glossier leaves. Fertilizing should not be done any later than mid-summer though as you will promote later, more tender leaf growth that is more vulnerable to slugs and disease.
WATERING Not much can be said about watering other than to keep the plants evenly moist by watering frequently. One might think that the best way to water a plant is in the same manner that Mother Nature does, from above. The main problem with this method is that water droplets falling repeatedly on the blue-leaved varieties will wash off the waxy glaucous bloom for which they are treasured. Droplets of water on the leaves can also act as magnifying lens to actually burn spots in the leaves when exposed to the sun. The most effective way of watering them is through the use of a permeable hose that seeps the water around the roots and they love plenty of water. 
EXPOSURE TO SUN/SHADE Some people like to refer to Hosta as “Shade Loving Plants” but we prefer to refer to them as SHADE TOLERANT  .In fact most will show off their color better given some direct sunlight sometime during part of the day. We also prefer to keep them out of the hot afternoon sun but there are actually some varieties that do better given more light, especially those grown for their fragrant or exotic flowers. Most Hostas grow best in light dappled shade such as that cast by tall shade from tall trees. We have found though that the same variety of Hosta grown in different sections of our garden will look entirely different, depending on how much light they receive. ‘June’ is a good example of this. It looks very different growing in dense shade (Chartreuse looking) versus a little bright early afternoon sun (Much more bleached and golden).
Page 10 of 11 PESTS AND DISEASES 
Hostas are generally free from most diseases but slugs and snails can be of overwhelming concern. Rather than trying to do an adequate job here of discussing management options, we would like to instead suggest you call your local Cooperative Extension office for the latest management recommendations. The thickest leaved Hostas are less prone to damage. Nematodes, Vine weevils, viral infections (especially the dreaded HVX Virus), crown rots and leaf spot diseases are also concerns to be dealt with as soon as they are discovered. Deer and Voles are the most destructive pests and many times you will need to cage your Hosta (including the crown and roots) to preserve their survival. PROPAGATION There are numerous reasons for propagating Hosta but the most typical are either that the clump has simply outgrown its current location or perhaps you want to share a piece with a friend. You may also be blessed with a mutation growing in the clump which is known as a “Sport” that you may wish to divide and evaluate. We find the best time of the year to do the dividing is in the early Spring when the young eyes are just emerging from the soil and are less than 2" tall. We find you end up with less damage to the leaves and much less transplant shock. If you simply want to remove one piece from the crown, then you may do so using a sharp spade or heavy-duty knife and actually cut a wedge shaped piece from the clump like a piece of pie, getting as much soil and roots with the piece as possible. The removed piece can then be planted elsewhere or in a pot to give to a friend. The space from which the division was removed, should then be filled in with a good garden soil amended with Organic Matter. You can also dig up the entire clump and cut it up into numerous divisions for propagation. We like to rinse off most of the soil from the clump before we start making the divisions, so we can better see where to do the cutting. Once you get good enough, you’ll be able to make a dozen or more divisions from one 10-12" clump! There are numerous other methods of propagation that can be used on Hosta, and to discuss any of these in detail would require us go on for many more pages. Instead we’d like to simply refer you to one of the excellent references on growing Hostas you can now find listed on the Internet. We also suggest you visit: www.HostaLibrary.org for a wealth of information on Hostas. WE HOPE YOU HAVE FOUND THIS SIMPLE DISCUSSION HELPFUL AND IF YOU HAVE MORE QUESTIONS EITHER SEND US AN EMAIL (dlj8@cornell.edu) OR CALL YOUR LOCAL CORNELL COOPERATIVE EXTENSION OFFICE and ask to speak to one of the Master Gardener Volunteers (In Albany County call 518-765-3514, in Saratoga County call 518-885-8995) REFERENCE SOURCE for this Fact Sheet: Personal Experience and “The New Encyclopedia of Hostas” by Diana Grenfell and Mike Shadrack - Timber Press Publishing. Page 11 of 11 Yüklə 71,62 Kb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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