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

Friday, September 9, 2011

My First Clump Division

Early yesterday evening I did my first hosta clump division. Later this month Hostas of Kentuckiana, our local hosta society based in Louisville, is having a plant swap at its monthly meeting. In order to have some plants to exchange, I decided to divide my H. 'Silver Halo.' Below are photos showing the one plant that I started with, the five divisions that it yielded, and those divisions repotted.

The process was a lot easier than I anticipated, but I will feel a lot  more comfortable when I have done more dividing. Most of my hostas are miniatures so it was nice having a larger specimen to work with first.

My H. 'Silver Halo' before being divided.

The five resulting divisions.

The divisions repotted as five plants.
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