These are simply put, the biggest hostas I've ever seen. I completely underestimated what I was getting. I assumed I would grab 6-8 of them, break them into 6 pieces each, and be 2 - 3 years from having medium to large hostas in my yard. Wrong. They are literally about 4 foot in diameter, and about 2 - 3 feet tall. I'll get probably 36 hostas out of the 4 that I grabbed, and those will be decent chunks. I'll try to take pics of them in the back of the explorer today, but if you need another good reference point...imagine that hosta sitting in one of those plastic adirondak chairs a couple feet behind it. A 230lb male could curl up next to it, and the hosta would take up more volume...These are "two man lift" hostas. 4 of them will likely fill the back of an impreza wagon. With the seats folded down. If you have a legacy outback wagon, seats down, you'll likely get 6. But you'd better have some serious landscape space at home if you take 6. Because two years from now, 6 hostas, broken down into 60 individual plantings, will consume 750 square feet of space in your yard.
So even though the rabbits ate everything last year, these hostas are coming back like crazy. +1 to @idget
Ayyy, this thread! Might actually be able to pick some up this year when the time comes now that I have my own hauler.
Now is probably the easiest time to transport them. Wait much longer and they're several orders of magnitude larger/heavier.
I bet my neighbors would be happier with me if I picked some up to cover the battlefield of a yard I pretend to maintain. Since it's not an actual weed, I'm not sure if it will survive though..
You must not be familiar with hostas. All of ours were chewed down to ground level last year by the rabbit infestation. All of them are already about 3 inches tall this year. And if the local eagle that has been circling the area sticks around for the year, the rabbit problem will hopefully go away and I can actually see what my landscaping looks like with mature plants. When I moved in, I had no idea what a hosta was. My first spring time here, their little nubs started poking up around May when I was beginning my first year of home ownership and had the lawnmowing thing to deal with. The little nubs looked like weeds to me, so I trampled them, ground them with my boots, mowed them weekly. This went on for 2 months, with new nubbies poking up pretty much daily. Finally my neighbor informed me "uh, those are hostas...and big ones. You WANT those." and pointed at his giant hostas he had growing on the side of his house. We ended up splitting them into about 20 hostas, and about a third of them are still growing where I initially replanted them.
Just bought a house. Need a few Hostas to make my front landscape look a little more balanced. Any left to spare?
Ready to start splitting them this year? We've decided to surrender to the inevitable after 13 years of trying, and stop trying to actually grow anything but these monster hostas on the north side of our house where daylight never shines. So any you're getting rid of, we'll gladly take.
Yep, I'll have a few this year, Mark! Can start digging them up probably later this week or early next? Otherwise, I'm open the weekend of the 25th.
No need to do anything special for me, I'd just love to know when you're looking to get rid of some. Thanks!
How long will you be giving these out? I have to do a bunch of landscaping and ripping out dead plants that the previous owner neglected. These would go great around the new home.
Great! Weeding today so anytime after this weekend works for me. Pm me if you don't have my number still land we can figure it out from there.
