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Craig Sailor is the Arts & Entertainment editor at The News Tribune. Last year he planted his first vegetable garden. Focusing on unusual varieties, “Freak of Nature” returns for 2008 with a new crop of uncommon vegetables and flowers. This year he’ll try yin yang beans, giant pumpkins, blue poppies and mutant sunflowers. He gardens at his North End Tacoma home and sneaks seeds in to his mother’s garden at Willapa Bay when she’s not looking. E-mail him at craig.sailor@thenewstribune.com.

Sue Kidd is the Lifestyle Editor at The News Tribune and the ringleader for the Home&Garden section. She is a decent vegetable gardener, but occasionally a tragic mess at growing other stuff. She’ll blog about gardening events, gadgets, her weird obsession with guerrilla gardening and all her assorted garden disasters. E-mail her with thoughts/rants/questions/bizarre observations. sue.kidd@thenewstribune.com.

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A Gardening Blog
Monday, June 30th, 2008
Posted by Sue Kidd @ 08:11:56 pm

Next Saturday (July 12) in the News Tribune's Home&Garden section, we'll delve into the shady (haha) terrain of hostas. We even break a few myths about hostas (hint: shade loving vs. shade tolerant? We address it).

I'm curious, where do you get your hostas? Are there any nurseries around here that seem to carry a good selection?

We feature the Naylor Creek Nursery in our story this Saturday. They seem to be the go-to hosta people in the region, if not the entire Northwest. I saw firsthand the lure of Naylor Creek hostas at the Point Defiance Flower and Garden Show plant market. Gardeners lined up 10 deep to buy hostas at the Naylor Creek booth. In the garden world, that's akin to achieving rock star status.

So, faithful readers, tell us about your recent hosta purchases. Where did you buy yours? What did you buy? Do you have any questions about growing hostas? Post a comment here, or just e-mail me at sue.kidd@thenewstribune.com.

And don't forget to check out the July 12 Home&Garden section, especially if you're a newbie to hostas. You'll like what you read.

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