Hello, and welcome to my personal blog. My name is John Spangler; I live in Versailles, Kentucky, where since June 2010 I have been growing miniature hostas in my garden, along with some of their larger siblings in deck containers. I am a member of The American Hosta Society and the Greater Cincinnati Daylily-Hosta Society and have been accredited by the AHS as a provisional hosta show judge.

In addition to observations on my own hosta garden and links to numerous hosta-related websites, this blog will include occasional posts on other interests of mine. I hope that you find something interesting and useful here and encourage you to grow hostas, the Friendship Plant -- particularly miniature hostas. Good things do come in small packages!


Feel free to leave comments on blog entries or to e-mail me at JMSinKY@aol.com

Thursday, August 25, 2011

My trip to Nashville to hear Bob Solberg


(10:00 a.m.) I will be leaving shortly to drive to Nashville to hear Bob Solberg speak at this month's meeting of the Middle Tennessee Hosta Society. Bob is the owner of Green Hills Farm in Chapel Hill, North Carolina; a former President of the American Hosta Society; a former editor of AHS's The Hosta Journal; and a hybridizer of hostas for southeastern gardens. It will no doubt be well worth the trip, and I will be blogging about it here in this entry.

In addition, I will get to see many of the fine folks that I met last month attending the AHS Judges' Clinics I and II that were held there just outside Nashville. I had such a good time that I even joined their local hosta society!

The Middle Tennessee Hosta Society is hosting next year's AHS Annual Convention at Nashville. HOK members should certainly plan on attending this event. Check out the neat video that MTHS has up on its website describing the 2012 AHS Convention. The convention theme is "Hostas, Friends, and Music," particularly appropriate for Nashville.

Well, enough said for the moment! I still have to pack and get on the road. More to come later. :-)

To be continued.

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