IDeal™ Garden Markers, a division of Hostas Direct, Inc.

Hostas Direct, Inc. has customers in 49 states, 16,000+ e-newsletter readers, visitors from 128 countries, and is nationally recognized in the Top 5 Hosta Vendors by Dave’s Garden, the largest gardening website in the world.

Hostas Direct, Inc. is a hosta and heuchera nursery incorporated in Minnesota, owned by hosta collector Tom Carlson. We have worked incredibly hard to be your best source for hostas, heucheras and hosta and heuchera information and a one-stop shop for all of your plant identification stake, nameplate, engraving and labeling needs.

Our outstanding team includes Senior Vice President Joe Husby, our very talented software and website developer. Our shipping department, run by Mary Alexander along with Jennifer and Courtney Smalley and Nikki Henderson, receives many compliments from our customers for its meticulous packaging. Laura Nelson is our marketing manager, Casey Anderson is our horticulturalist and blog writer, Karen Keeny manages the greenhouse and growing operations, and we have other seasonal workers.

The two companies offer:

• Competitive prices on 500+ varieties of disease-free hostas and heucheras in 3 maturities, Starter TC, Advanced Starter and Mature Divisions, for every budget and need.
• Info on 6,700+ hostas with 6,000+ pics & 70+ search options with HostaSearch™ - the world's largest hosta database.  This information can also be used to hosta hybridizers.
• Hosta gardening information and videos and the Hosta Friends blog.
• The largest online selection of heuchera plants.
• HeucheraSearch(TM) the largest searchable heuchera database complete with plant photos, detailed information and more for heuchera hybridizers as well.
• Print your own hosta info sheets
• IDeal Garden Markers – The best plant identification markers including interchangeble stakes and nameplates ever available!
• Design online durable and sun-resistant garden labels and garden engraved nameplates.
• Paint pens with durable ink for marking plant tags, plant nameplates, and plant labels.
• Gardening tools including a unique trowel and weeding tool.

IDeal™ Garden Markers features Tom Carlson's latest invention, a new, patent-pending, garden marker including easily interchangable garden stakes and garden nameplates for plant marking that solves all of the problems 1,300 gardeners expressed in our survey. Sr Vice President, Joe Husby, built software allowing customers to design their own attractive weather and sun-resistant plastic labels online and engravings. You can receive updates and special sales information if you sign up for the e-newsletter.