Nancy and I have been really pleased with the way our hostas have been doing this year.

Last fall, we widened our perennial borders by about four feet by getting rid of slightly failing lawn and digging and dividing a lot of our existing plants, mostly hosta, to fill the space.

Nancy went out this weekend to take some pictures of the result.

The hostas are the large-leaved plants right next to the three-brick-wide garden edging, and come in a variety of colors: mostly yellow with green edging, mostly green with yellow edging, green and white and so on. In planting these, Nancy tried to echo the patterns, having yellow with green edging near ones that are green with yellow edging.

I like this photo because it is sort of a gardening play on words, or play on plants.

The plant in the middle is a pulmonaria, with hostas on each side. I like the white splotches on the pulmonaria leaves, which look quite a bit like hosta leaves. But the real beauty of the pulmonaria is that in late April or early May it has bright blue to purple flowers, some of the earliest flowers of the season. Hosta blooms come later and are not quite so striking.

Here are some more of our transplanted hosta. Although the blooms on most hosta have gone by already, the hostas with plain green leaves in the center of the photo are still showing their blossoms.

Nancy and I love it when a plan comes together.

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