I just read your other post that states you already have pips showing on someof your other hostas. If the hostas in question have not started coming up you could always poke around and try to locate them to be sure they are not buried too deep. They should be fine.

I'm curious as to why your neighbor would do such a thing. Are these hostas on the neighbor's property or close to the property line? Do you have a poor relationship with this neighbor? The whole thing seems strange.

Good luck - they are hosta and are hearty.

Teresa

My neighbor took down a rotting fence (that I was babying so it would stay up a little longer - until I could move things)which would have been OK if it had been in his yard. He didn't just take it down, he excavated the area. When I demanded what in the world was going on, he said he was tearing out some ivy and got carried away, and didn't see any plants where he put the junk. I tried to be very polite when I told him that it was winter and the plants were just under the surface - somewhere. I don't know why he would do such a thing, either, but he has tried to help me with other things - with similar unfortunate results - in the past. I told him to NEVER do anything in my yard again. Period. I give him 4 months...

Strange. I have an absentee neighbor who does not take very good care of his property - but took the liberty of putting an oak tree on my property way to close to my house. I took the oak tree out and abut 6 months later he stopped by to fix something for his tenant. When he saw the tree was gone he went nuts.

If you do not already have one, get a copy of your lot lines from your city. The next time he does something on your property, ask him to stop. If he doesn't then call the police.

no .. they are there ....

there is an old post about the gas service digging up a hosta bed.. they eventually came up ... anyone care to refresh our memories about that ...

the problem you have.. is that hosta come up on stored energy .... and are supposed to be planted in the top one inch or so of soil ...

if they have to force their way through 6 inches of soil .. they will use up so much energy .. that it might take them years to recover ....

so you have to find them .... you ought to go on an archeology hunt.. to the bed.... with a small hand trowel .. find the old level of the soil ... perhaps... grass .. or the mulch line.. or whatever... if you take the time.. you ought to find some type of color differentiation ... and then start working toward your hosta .... removing as much excess as possible ....

or wait until the poke thru ... and then remove as much excess soil as possible ...

good luck

ken

If first you can remove any dirt and junk that you know wasn't there before, maybe a safe way to continue would be with a hose. Could you try to wash off the remaining layers of dirt with a high pressure stream? You would be less likely to damage the surface roots and crown with water. Especially if the plants aren't exactly where you thought they were.
~Bunnycat