Welcome 

Who is it for ?

This website is for everyone interested in hostas:

• gardeners,
• hosta collectors and breeders,
• people with an interest in Hosta botany,
• anyone who loves plants and nature.

What's new ?

June 2010

Setting up and maintaining a simple but efficient system to keep track of all the plants in a collection take up little time and effort and is of great value when a collection keeps expanding.  Look here if you want to know more.

May 2010

It's been quiet in the Hosta Mill, garden and website alike since July 2009 due to an acute lack of time.  The consequences were terrible, especially for the garden. 
Over here in Belgium, the summer of 2009 was hot and there was hardly any rain.  Weeds ran out of control and hostas had to struggle to stay alive.  The summer was followed by a very cold and very long winter.  Especially towards the end of it, with a couple of cold spells after regrowth started, a lot of damage was done.  Add to this an explosion of the number of snails and you may understand I was beginning to wonder if it was all worthwhile.

Taking on the problems in a systematic, planned way resulted in a vast improvement of the situation in a span of a few weeks.  Information that can be useful to people meeting the same problems or wanting to prevent them.  It can be found here

June 30, 2009

'Hostas of the Low Countries has been put up to date, based on the registrations until 2008.
I've taken the orginator as the most important data. To me, it's more important who bread the new hosta than who registered it (no offence to the Hosta registrar intended).'

June 18 2009

As years go by, experience grows.  How ? Well, some things go right, others go wrong.  I've been using my own potting mixture for a couple of years now, and it isn't as good as I thought it was.  So I had to make some adaptations to the formula.  I'm confident it will be better afterwards.  Look here for the update.

June 13 2009

I suppose the Hosta Mill will never be the same again after today.  We're proud to announce that #22 of the 2006-2007 H. 'Grand Slam' seedlings was elected 'Best Hosta Introduction 2009' by the Dutch Hosta Society on June 13.  You can find the full story here.

June 12 2009

The website has a new theme, simplified and leaving more space for the content.  There's also a new logo.  In case you wonder which plant it is in the logo: H. 'Chopsticks', a typical plant for the Hosta Mill Collection.

The 'Hosta Search' form on the left allows you to look for information on hostas in the major Hosta sites

I've added some 50 new pages in the Cultivar section, and descriptions are added regularly now.

The 2009 garden page is soon to come, and boy, there have been some major changes over there.  Where almost all of the plants used to be in containers, by now about 3/4 of them have been planted out.

I must add a section on new plants that originated in the Hosta Mill.  They are being evaluated; some have already been named, others are used as breeders to create our own breeding lines.