Haven't tried Best Value TC yet?  Here is your chance!

Already a customer? This is our way to say Thank You!

DEAL #1:  Special offer - 5 days only!

This "package deal" is for one of each of the following premium, Best Value TC (tissue culture) sized hostas:

You can buy other hostas if you wish at our regular price.  All orders apply towards our normal additional free hosta program for every $50 incremental purchase.  Orders are filled on a first to buy basis. 

Ordering deadline:  NOON Central Time

We will ship two weeks later - the week of August 13 - via Priority Mail unless you ask for a later ship date in the comments area upon checkout.

$25.00 Hosta "Grab Bag" offer:  save 30+ %

This time of year we often find ourselves with too much inventory or too little inventory on many varieties of hostas. We also have some that have outgrown their cell packs because they are slightly root-bound (it takes about 1 to 5 minutes to untangle the roots but the roots are huge and it is worth the time and effort!)  To solve this problem we came up with a "Grab Bag" offer which we feel will be good for everybody.

You can buy other hostas if you wish at our regular price.  All orders apply towards our normal additional free hosta program for every $50 incremental purchase.  Orders are filled on a first to buy basis.

***This Grab Bag offer will exist until our inventories are balanced***

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Hosta Diseases - avoid an expensive heartache

I am not saying this because we sell disease-free Best Value TC hostas that have never touched the ground but because many people do not know what a bummer it is to get a disease in your garden.  As you read these, keep in mind that hostas are a low maintenance, easy-to-grow, basically disease free plant.   But, all living things can be prone to illness.

Imagine this:

1. Digging up and disposing your favorite hostas and their surrounding soil
    
2. Using Zerotol (a very expensive chemical that can burn your skin) to kill nematodes
    
3. Having containers full of bleach around your gardens to sterilize your feet and tools so the worms or Virus X won't spread
    
4. Worrying and being bummed out

Hosta Virus X - know what it looks like and what to do!  Click here!

Foliar Nematodes -  microscopic worms   Click here!

Minnesota Hosta Society Cut Leaf Show:

Various local hosta societies around the country and the American Hosta Society national convention sponsor "Cut Leaf Shows."   Participants cut their finest hosta leaves and bring them to the shows for judges to evaluate.   Winning leaves are displayed in a very professional, well-named fashion that are easy to view and photograph.   Here are some the pics from this past weekend's show!  Talk about living art and living sculpture!

H. 'Earth Angel'	H. 'Blue Angel'	H. 'Ice Age Trail'
H. 'Sum It Up'	H. 'Fragrant Bouquet'	H. 'Tokudama Aureonebulosa'
H. 'Olive Bailey Langdon'	H. 'Orange Marmalade'	H. 'Thunderbolt'

Miscellaneous HostasDirect news

• Joe Husby filmed, edited and installed some new, educational video streams on our home page of our web site.  More topics will be added soon.  Click here!
  
   
• Our new packaging has been working great.  Thank you for your feedback and patience.
  
   
• We are still working on getting our new web site up for our custom imprinting label and garden stake business.  We will send an e-mail when it is ready.
  
   
• We have added some additional new hostas to our web site.  In the future we will have a list on our web site of hostas that become available.
  
   
• We would appreciate your sending us more photos!   Thanks!
  
   
• We will be selling some hard to find garden tools soon.  Stay tuned.
  
   
• If you have contacts at your garden club that would be interested in our Garden Club discount program for hostas and some of our other products please e mail us the contact information.   
  
   
• We have had many visitors to our web site from around the world.   If you are from outside the USA, please send us an e-mail! 
  
   
• Joe Husby, our computer expert, has made some more nice changes to our web site:
  
   
  • Search our hostas for sale or our database of over 6240 hostas right from the home page.  (you must log in to search the database - register here for free if you don't have an account)
    
     
  • The drop down menus on our site have been simplified.  We have consolidated the hosta information so it is user friendly

Thank you!

On behalf of everyone at HostasDirect, Inc. - thanks again for your business!   We hope the new concepts and products we are offering - Best Value TC, digital video streams, (soon label printing, unique garden tools), etc, are addressing the previous unmet needs of gardeners.    

If you are not happy with something, tell us.  If you are happy, please tell others!  We appreciate your feedback and support, which helps us continue to provide these excellent products and services.

Sincerely,

Tom Carlson - President - Owner

My cell phone remains 651-398-8958.

If I can't take your call I will try to get back to you ASAP.