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
2012 Great Lakes Region Hosta College
I am in Piqua, OH, for this year's Great Lakes Region Hosta College -- my first time here, and it is awesome!
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Around 500 attendees. Huge vending area. Five classes and lunch tomorrow, skipping the closing banquet to drive home before it gets dark.
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This evening's purchases --
- Hostas 'Feather Boa', 'Munchkin', 'Peanut', 'Rock Island Line', 'Rock Princess', 'X-Rated' and a purple double hardy primrose -- plus the College's complimentary hosta 'Homecoming Queen'
- THE NEW ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HOSTAS (2009) by Diana Grenfell and Michael Shadrack
- CREATING AND PLANTING GARDEN TROUGHS (2d ed., 20111) by Joyce Fingerut and Rex Murfitt
Tomorrow's classes --
- "Building Papercrete Containers"
- "Small Garden Projects"
- "Hypertufa with a Twist!"
- "Maintaining Your Hostas"
- "Ask Bob [Solberg]"
There are several of us here from Hostas of Kentuckiana. I had a delightful lunch this afternoon with Cornelia Holland and Virginia Gregory-Kocaj, co-chairs of this year's American Hosta Society's National Convention in Nashville in June.
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