I love hostas. At least the greyish thick leaved type, which with a little help from slug pellets (organic, of course) stay looking great all summer, then die in glorious colour.
Though, kept carefully away from the slug slaughter in a pot, there’s one (name unknown, sorry) which cheers up spring like this:
Glorious!
My favourite might be Krossa Regal:
But see that droopy thing up at the top? That is the remains of a useless flower.
I love hostas enough to have made a short walk of them, and I’ve added Nectaroscordum siculum to them, because that has manky leaves by the time it flowers, which the hostas kindly hide.
So the Hosta Walk looks like this:
Those are the kind of flowers hostas ought to have. But the hostas I have all have dumpy little nothing flowers after the Nectaroscordum, which are then a real pain to get rid of. They look like this:
It helps to have one of my favourite tools when it comes to getting rid of these miserable monstrosities -

Disclosure: I will not make a single penny if you buy one of these. It claims to be for pruning but it chops and holds horrible hosta flowers so you can cut them off without bending down. How about that!? And it has so many other useful uses that I cannot currently find mine. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002W6YYXY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Of course the other downside of hostas is them slugs.
If you wonder what to do about slugs, and indeed other garden pests, including small children, you need a copy of ‘Outwitting Squirrels’.
Which has sold so well that you probably don’t need to buy it, because your best friend can probably lend you their copy.
Perhaps the glory of unslugged hostas, with flowers carefully removed, is their colourful decay.
Grow old colourfully!












Elegant Feather, that white one? I have killed this twice. There are some white flowered hostas that flower elegantly on tallish stems for a few days. As I can't recall which ones, I daresay they did not inspire me to find out their name
Nice post. Did I take that portrait of you? It’s very nice.