Start Marking Your Calendars Now! Garden Events for this spring and summer

Wow, can you believe that it's almost March?  I feel like winter is never going to end.  I can't remember a winter that has ever been this cold.  Let's hope for an early spring.
 
There are lots of things to look forward to this spring and summer.  Here is a just a short list. 

• Warmer weather
• Paine Art Center Festival of Spring - May 17.  Oshkosh, WI.  More information here:http://www.thepaine.org/events/festival-of-spring/index.html
• May 17, 2014: Outagamie County Master Gardener Association Annual Plant Sale.  UW-Extension Grounds, 3365 W. Brewster St., Appleton.  8 a.m. - 3 p.m.
• Green Bay Botanical Garden Fair - May 30- June 1.  More information. http://www.gbbg.org/things-to-do/garden-events/id/184/title/Garden-Fair
• Midwest Regional Hosta Convention - Green Bay, June 26-28.  More information here: http://greenandgoldhosta.org/2014-convention.html
• AHS (Daylilies) Region 2 Summer Meeting - Beauty by the Bay - July 25-27.  More information here: http://badbuds.org/Region%202%20Summer%20Meeting.html

Lack of Hosta Seeds this Year

It just hit me this week as I was walking through the garden, and I can't believe that I did not notice it sooner.  Very few of my hostas have seed pods this year.  I know it's not a lack of bees; I have bees a plenty in my garden.  I'm guessing the lack of rain and the extremely hot temperatures are to blame.  Hostas that bloom very early like Elegans and Borsch #1 have seed pods but those mid-summer bloomers just have dried up scapes.  Hosta 'Dragon Lady' is one that usually a prolific seeder, and look at it this year....so sad with it's dried up scapes.

I also have noticed that I only have one daylily with seedpods, and I even went out and tried to hand pollinate them myself.