When do hostas return

We try our best to ship 2 to 4 eyed plants for most hostas. Some of the slower and larger hostas are 1 eyed. Some plants are more vigorous than others and therefore can be larger.

Some hostas are slow growers and therefore smaller. In any case, we do our very best to send you quality plants at reasonable prices. How long will it take for the hostas I get from you to reach their mature size? Why did my hosta die? How much water do my hostas need? Why doesn't my hosta look like the photo on your website? Buy tickets. RHS members get reduced ticket prices Join now. Harlow Carr North Yorkshire. Hyde Hall Essex. Rosemoor Devon.

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Shopping with the RHS. RHS Christmas gifts. Help us achieve our goals Make a donation. However, this crown is easily susceptible to rot. Any mulch or piled soil across the crown needs to be removed immediately -- the crown must have air circulating around its structure to prevent fungal and bacterial infections that could directly affect leaf growth.

Holding ample nutrients and moisture, hosta roots do not immediately grow with the emerging leaves. In fact, up to a month may pass before the roots begin to grow -- warmer weather in USDA zones 8 and 9 may encourage faster root response with rapidly rising soil temperatures. Requiring fertile soil with plenty of organic material, the old root tips grow along with new root structures to supply the growing leaves above.

Because hosta leaves can grow up to several feet with a large transpiration surface area, the roots must have a constant supply of moisture -- drought stress causes dieback during this critical vegetative period.

Let them sleep as long as they like. If you are zone 6a you don't want them up yet. Do you know what is your average final frost date in your area? Usually a County Cooperative Extension service or a local land grant college will have this information. I'm in zone 5b and my final frost date is usually May 15th.

I'd prefer not to have my Hosta fully leafed out until that time. This year they may be earlier than that. I am in zone 5 and about half of my varieties in the ground have started to come up. My Blue Angel isn't showing yet. You can use your fingers to push a little dirt around to see if you can find some pips.

If you do this, do it gently as to not break or damage them. If you have to go down an inch or more to find the crown of the plant then it is planted too deep. My last frost date is May 10th. They are on the North side of my house, so that soil won't warm up as soon as the South side.

I planted hosta starters last fall. I think I planted the top of the root ball where the stems and roots connect almost flush with the top of the ground or maybe a little deeper. It sounds like I just need to wait a while longer. I'll leave them alone and let them sleep and stop worrying.

All this information has set my mind at ease. I tend to overthink when it comes to gardening. I sometimes worry about my plants like I worry about my children if I don't know where they're at.

I'm in Texas and my Blue Angel is almost fully leafed out, but we've had unseasonably warm weather. Usually the eyes are just starting to come up at this time of year. I am in Southwest Ohio and some of mine have started but I just happened to look at my Blue Angel this morning and it has not started yet.

You still have a while. I'm in the SW corner of Missouri. My Blue Angels are just now starting to come up, they are both about 3 inches, after two days of rain. I expect they will be growing like weeds in the next week if it gets as warm as predictions say it will. Lots of my hostas are up; many are showing no signs of growth at all yet.

They emerge at different times, with some little species NOID first along with the late crocuses, Montana aureomarginata next, which is nearly at full size now, and in my garden usually On Stage is last, around the first or middle of April.

Patience is the key! Don't go digging around too much where you think the crowns might be, sometimes tender new eyes are easily broken off. You should not gauge emergence of hosta next year by what they are doing this year other than the order in which they come up. This Spring is another season that isn't normal just as last Summer wasn't normal.

Times are changing and so are the seasons. None of my large blue or yellow leaved hostas are coming up yet as they shouldn't but did see today that Empress Wu, Sagae, Stained Glass and a few others are.

I have about 85 varieties in pots here just south of San Francisco. All but about 4 or 5 are up and unfurling. Spring is here. Franknjim is correct about them coming up in about the same order each year. The first ones are always first, and the last ones are always last. The Tokudamas are the slowest here. I am a bit north and east of Franknjim and about half of my hosta are up but only Lancifolia unfurled yet.

I think soil moisture as well as sunlight affect when a given variety of hosta emerges from dormancy. I live in the 6a zone. I only have 17 different types of hosta, but the only ones showing so far are a couple of Sieboldiana Splendis with a couple of Sieboldiana Francee showing some root activity. I have Blue Angel and 14 others that have not shown any signs of life. It is forecast to be 81 degrees here today, so maybe there will be some activity tomorrow morning. As Dorothy said to Toto we're not in Kansas anymore.

I did look closer and one of my Blue Angels does have one eye poking through the ground. The others aren't up yet, and I have not dug and will not dig to see if they are still alive. Thanks for all of the information. I will stop worrying now. Here in Southern Ontario my hostas always show up well after most of my other perennials, and after the spring bulbs are up and blooming.

My gardens are quite green now, daffodils blooming, tulips ready to open, but hostas just starting to peek. Hostas are late to emerge -- and so a challenge to remember where they are and not step on them while picking a bouquet! They will eventually appear! After yesterday hitting 84 degrees the forecast for SE Massachusetts is 29 degrees for Saturday and Sunday night.

It looks as if the hostas were not fooled as they are not close to opening up and, in most cases, even making a showing here.