Hosta College officially begins at 6:00 pm on Friday with hosta and gardening vendors, an auction, snacks, and fellowship with old and new gardening friends. Starting at 7:30 on Saturday morning you can enjoy a complimentary continental breakfast /and attend five hours of classes and lunch. Our event ends with an optional banquet and speaker at
Containers from the Ground Up with Myrene Brown Come and enjoy Myrene Brown’s program “Containers From The Ground Up”. The program will be a visual journey starting with where to place your container, container choices, and set up. There will be tips to keep the need to water to a minimum. Time will be spent
Right-Sized Gardening: Growing with Life’s Changes with Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp is the Hoosier Gardener. She’s a 25-year, award-winning veteran of print journalism and owner of Write for You! LLC, a freelance writing and editing business. You can find her blog at hoosiergardener.com. Jo Ellen is a past president of GardenComm:
Hosta Leaf Show 2025 Carmel Clay Library, 425 E. Main Street, Carmel, IN. 46032 Hosta Leaf Show Schedule Entries Received: 8 a.m. – 10 a.m.Judging Begins: 10:30 a.m.Show Opens to the Public: 1:30 p.m. – 4 p.m.Claim Entries: 4:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.Show TearDown Begins: 4:15 p.m. (unclaimed entries will be discarded) The AHS-sanctioned hosta
2025 American Hosta Society Convention “Hosta Double Feature” Jointly sponsored by the American Hosta Society and the Midwest Regional Hosta SocietyHosted by the Central Illinois Hosta Society Par-A-Dice Hotel – June 19-21, 2025 – East Peoria, IL Garden Tours – Accredited Hosta Show -Vendors – Live and Silent Auctions – Educational SpeakersHosta Seed Growers Seedling Competition
Celebrate Summer in a Garden!
These gardens are all a unique experience. You are welcome to visit these beautiful gardens in any order.
Coach bus trip to Cincinnati, Ohio area. During the trip we will be visiting gardens that are part of the Great Lakes Tailgate.
• The gardens vary in size, style and content.
• Hostas galore in some; perennials, annuals, shrubs and trees in others
• About half of the gardens will have one vendor per garden
Planting Perennials for Successive Blooming with John Chapin John Chapin lives in Danville, IN and was an elementary teacher for 36 years and also ran a landscaping company for 38 years, overlapping his teaching career for 20 years. He started Tree Frog Gardens as his “retirement” business seven years ago – growing and selling unusual
Member Pitch-in and Auction Feeling benevolent and willing to share that coveted Hosta that you just can’t find anymore? It’s never too early to begin planning which of your favorite, unusual, or hard-to-find Hosta you’ll want to contribute to the annual auction. Got some unused tools taking up space? Are you over the fairy garden
Digging and Delighted: Dug in the Fall to be Delighted in the Spring with Carol J. Michel If you are tempted to put your gardening tools away when it’s time to buy Halloween candy, you are missing out on the opportunity to set the stage in your garden for a great spring show. Carol will
Designing the Winter Garden with Amy Mullen Make your garden a four-season one by injecting winter interest into your garden, without sacrificing beauty the rest of the year. Includes creating views from inside, the importance of structure, great plants for the winter garden, and more. Amy Mullen is a garden designer, coach, blogger and plant
Holiday Gathering The annual holiday party will be the final event of the year, and will be held at the Coxhall Gardens Mansion. We will enjoy a festive pitch-in with members bringing their favorite dish to share. There will be games, games, and games with loads of fabulous prizes. There may even be a few