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Tears in Heaven

Looking great in the garden is month is Hosta ‘Tears in Heaven’, a unique-looking favorite, from the breeding work of plantsman Hans Hansen, of Walters Gardens. While hostas with long, pointed leaves never sell nearly as well as those with round leaves, we find them much more interesting to use in the garden, from a

Hostas don’t grow here…

We often hear and read that hostas won’t grow well in the mid and deep south, so we thought we should share a few garden photos from this week at JLBG (Zone: 7b), to bust yet another garden myth. Starting with some small/miniature hostas, the first is Doug Beilstein’s Hosta ‘Baby Booties’, a superbly vigorous

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