To me I tend to go for total plant volume over strictly counting eyes, but it sort of depends on the particular plant. In this case two larger eyes would be the winner to me over any number of small eyes. Sometimes when a hosta is stressed out it will overcompensate and put out a ton of eyes. On a large hosta like Blue Hawaii it should be multiplying fairly slowly, with the eyes getting fatter and fatter before putting out new ones. If one has a bunch of eyes I bet there is something going on with the crown, either some kind of rot or some other kind of damage that happened to it along the way. In time the larger eyes will multiply naturally on their own over a bunch of small ones and will often be the larger and more robust and mature looking plant quicker than a bunch of small ones. I think of it as quality vs quantity. On the other hand if it is a fast multiplying plant then more eyes would be the way to go over a couple larger ones as they will catch up to the larger ones quick enough. The other question I get asked sometimes is if you have nothing but single eye plants and some are flowering but others are not, which one do you pick? The flowering one will appear to put lots of energy into the flower and won't send up any more leaves from that eye but the one that isn't flowering will continue to flush out new leaves so may seem the better choice. To me, however, I would take the flowering one because after it flowers it will work on setting new dormant buds which become more eyes next year. It won't do much this summer but next year it will be larger than the singles that didn't flower this year. Just my take on it :) Chris

Dirtygardener73, I do not believe you should be so upset as to leave with a verbal badgering and name calling when people who have read your unsolicited medical advice state they disagree. Obviously you are not a Dr. of any medical persuasion. You try to mend all ailments with homeopathic medicines before trying western medicine. I do think you can try all the homeopathic medicines you want and I also try to use homeopathic/alternative medicines first. I also grew up in a home of medicine women healers and kitchen witches and trained with them all my remembered life. Yes salt and garlic and a good many other unconventional products, in moderate amounts, can be used safely in the eyes. In my opinion the recipe you offered in your original post is to strong a salt solution for the eyes. I would never recommend anything in the eyes for prevention of parasites no matter where I lived. Goddess gave us our own natural eye cleansing factory for prevention and it is best to let it work without help. In all instances, dealing with foreign material on the eye surface (when natural tearing is not flushing the material from the eye) there are 2 recommended options rinsing the eyes PLAIN H2O (yes distilled is best)for dirt grime or foreign objects or Plain MILK (whole or 2%) for oily or chemical intrusion then water to clear the milk out. The rinsing can and should be done multiple times each time with a fresh eye cup of the water or milk. Then see a doctor if there is still discomfort or pain after a few hrs. Self diagnostics with out training is a danger more than most homeopathic medicines. Any other type of treatment for the eyes should be recommended by an eye specialist and never wait 10 days to see an expert. A scratched cornea is not going to heal over night no matter how much medicine you put on it. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you'll come back again after you grow a thicker skin. LIL

I don't think it would be weird at all to paint the whole wall white (or any other colour) including the chair rail (that's the line of trim around the walls. The idea is that it protects the walls from being marred by a chair being pushed back from the table). Of you don't like the chair rail you could check under the one on the dividing wall; if the wall under it is nice you could probably take it right off with no problem. You might have some nail holes to fill but that's pretty easy. I really like white walls with oak trim. There are a lot of nice examples of it here on houzz.

I'll mention what I see that you can easily change. Furniture is tight..there is barely a walk way between bar stools and back of sectional. Can the sectional move in toward the t v? I think I see space. Dining table is too big for the nook. Place three chairs on each side of the table and remove the chairs seats....too much stuff in a small space. The pendants would look better over the table and the ceiling lights better over the island. Too many throw pillows on the sectional. I think what you are missing is not incorporating more of the color of the bar stools. Just about everything in the room is black and those stools are a wonderful shape and color. What is the large black object by the slider. It is very big for that spot. How about a floor plant in its place? Do you need the fan?