Please provide your email address in the space at the right to get emails for: sale times, seasonal care tips, new hostas offered, back in stock hostas, 50+ page document of Hosta Care tips.
We also offer reduced prices at times.
280+ homegrown, mature divisions hostas.
One mile north of the MN state fair you can see and buy mature hostas that are growing in a beautiful landscape. Plants have been inspected and licensed by the State of MN.
At: 19 Mid Oaks Road, Roseville, MN 55113
Google Map: see bottom of About Us.
WE DO NOT SHIP. Plants are dug fresh. No credit cards or checks - online or on site. Currently, this site is for information only - not ordering.
On this site:
- Each hosta has detailed information and many pictures of clumps, leaves, petioles and flowers.
- Place your cursor over Plant Traits and Leaf Traits menus at the top of the website to see multiple search criteria.
Left H. 'Ivory Coast' (above on phones).
Your options:
1) Signup below: to get emails about sale dates and times and to be notified of
weather cancellations. You will also receive via email a 55+ page Hosta Care
document from owner and hosta expert Tom Carlson.
2) To visit: see Book Your Slot below to select a time slot. Customers that select
a time slot get priority on having their orders dug promptly. This also helps us plan and reduce parking space problems.
3) You can also PREORDER: download the spreadsheet below and email it to us. We will contact you when your order is ready.
Click this link to get our price and availability list:
Email your order via the spreadsheet to tomscarlson@gmail.com
PLEASE:
- cash only, no bathrooms, bring your own bags, no dogs, kids welcome but watch them, wear stable shoes, get help if wobbly, stay hydrated - ALWAYS SAFETY FIRST!
- don't drive through the neighborhood.
- park on north side of Roselawn Ave. and enter under the pergola where there is often an American flag up.
Price sheets are on a table in the driveway.
Left: H. 'Climax' (above on phones)
Hours and weather changes:
Hours and changes due to weather are
sent via email and also posted at the top.
Our hostas are grown in the ground - not pots. Thus, at times our soil needs time to drain after it rains.
Please provide your email below so we can keep you informed regarding sales, sales times and changes.
Left: H. 'Blue Angel' (above on phones)
We offer mature hosta divisions.
Customers walk the gardens and use our price list to select their plants. We dig their order. Customers with large orders often preorder or leave their list for future
pickup.
The price is for 1 division but you often get more. Rubber bands secure a
sun-resistant printed label (that you or we print) to your hosta.
Left: a customer's order(above on phones)
Most of our divisions are mature.
Sometimes an entire mature plant is dug and then divided by hand or by using a knife. Other times a division is cut as it remains in the ground with a knife or special shovel.
We need to keep enough hostas for future years so sometimes we suddenly discontinue selling a variety for the season and even 1 to 3 years so they can multiply. Thus, if you see something you really want, it can be wise to buy it.
We dig between about the 3rd week of May and mid-September. After shipping 3.6 million hostas to 49 states over 15 years in a previous business, our experience is that hostas can be divided almost year round. Hostas are tough, resilient plants. We have even planted hostas the 2nd week of November in snow and they did well!
Closeup of a root system for a large hosta.
Of course the root sizes vary with the size and maturity of the hosta. We have mini, small, medium, large and giant hostas.
You get a mature division most often with buds on it.
For the price you get one division and often more. The division likely has dormant buds that will create more divisions next season.
Perennials "sleep the first year, creep the second year and leap the third year."
Get your hostas growing. They are easy to move later. "Paralysis by analysis" is not always good with plants.
Enjoy the garden and hostas!
Please:
1) Enter under the pergola (shown in the left side of this picture) which is on
the north side of Roselawn Ave. BE CAREFUL of traffic.
2) Stay mostly on the gravel paths that wind through the gardens.
3) Wear supportive shoes.
4) Our gardens have very few if any mosquitoes and gnats.
By entering our property you agree we are not liable for injuries you sustain.
Hostas are grown in optimal conditions
Our hostas are grown mostly in morning, late afternoon sun or filtered light.
The original great soil was amended with coarse sand 30 years ago to create air pockets that allow oxygen to get to the roots, roots to spread more easily and create better water drainage.
We frequently hand water, foliar feed with Miracle Grow for Tomatoes fertilizer and weed.
Slopes / walls are terraced with MN
granite boulders and Chilton stone.
Get landscaping ideas here.
We do not recommend water features unless you have the proper space and lots of time and interest to manage them. Debris from trees can fall in them, racoons eat the fish, plumbing breaks, etc. That said, ponds can be spectacular and fun!
We do have water falls with two ponds and a connecting stream - that runs a times.
