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petuniaprincess · 26/06/2025 16:07

My hosta has refused to flower - what can I do?

Thanks in advance !

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Screamingabdabz · 26/06/2025 16:10

Surely you don’t grow Hostas for their flowers? I wouldn’t do anything. Just enjoy it.

Geneticsbunny · 26/06/2025 16:30

They don't flower till later in the year

petuniaprincess · 26/06/2025 16:51

Geneticsbunny · 26/06/2025 16:30

They don't flower till later in the year

It's pal has flowered and the one on the left flowered last year.

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petuniaprincess · 26/06/2025 16:52

Screamingabdabz · 26/06/2025 16:10

Surely you don’t grow Hostas for their flowers? I wouldn’t do anything. Just enjoy it.

No, but it's nice to have the flowers as well. The bees really like them too.

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HostaCentral · 26/06/2025 16:58

Mine are all in flower, with multiple flowers. The only thing I have done is top up their pots with compost, and gave them a good feed as they were coming up. No other tips really.

petuniaprincess · 26/06/2025 17:12

HostaCentral · 26/06/2025 16:58

Mine are all in flower, with multiple flowers. The only thing I have done is top up their pots with compost, and gave them a good feed as they were coming up. No other tips really.

Some people did tell me that I should give them some tomato food in the spring, so I'll try that next year.

This is the first year that one hasn't flowered, so I did wonder if it had got too dry?

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HostaCentral · 26/06/2025 17:16

Not sure about the dry. I have some in pots in the shade, some in bright sun, and some in the garden soil, in bright hot locations. They are all flowering, and I haven't watered the garden ones at all, and I'm in the South East, no rain for months!!!

HostaCentral · 26/06/2025 17:24

I love my hostas.... Sad I know. Here are some of my patio ones

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HostaCentral · 26/06/2025 17:27

Actually of the garden ones, the blues have not yet flowered, very shady, but the full sun ones have.

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petuniaprincess · 26/06/2025 17:36

HostaCentral · 26/06/2025 17:27

Actually of the garden ones, the blues have not yet flowered, very shady, but the full sun ones have.

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Love the blue ones !
Can you put a picture up when they do flower?

What are the plants behind the hostas? Pulmonaria?

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HostaCentral · 26/06/2025 18:40

Brunnera Jack Frost behind. They have the most beautiful forget me not flowers in Spring, deeper blue. Great value for money. I bought one 5 years ago and split it every year. I've now got dozens.

I do have pulmonaria but they go all crispy and brown in the summer whereas the brunnera don't.

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