Sharlyn, Do you have any trees in your backyard? If so, I'd move them. For lots of great info on moving mature hosta (from Ken Adrian)...click the link below. Before I put too much effort into it though, I think I'd want to know what variety of hosta I'm moving. If they are plain old green/white undulatas, I'm not sure I'd make that much effort...but that's just me..oh my goodness, I've become a hosta snob!

Why don't you plant some nice trees in your front yard? There have been lots of suggestions for trees on this forum lately.

You must be SO EXCITED to see those 20 year old gardens come up at your new home! Every new thing coming up will be a surprise!

Char

Here is a link that might be useful: Moving a fully leafed out hosta

Depending on the type, they may be fine where they are. The great news is that they will NOT die from the sun. They may get crispy this year but you won't lose them. Why not give it a whirl and leave them where they are to see how they do?

Also, what exposure is it? Eastern, western...? Makes a big difference.

The house faces almost due north, so the sun comes up on the right and sets on the left. The trees next door were the only treesshading our front yard, there was a line of 60 foot pines (Our Azaleas and Rhodies were also in their shade) about every 20 feet along the whole property line. They shaded most of our back yard and the east side of the house, as well as the driveway and front yard. The only trees left are some 20 foot tall locut trees that are actually growing up in the middle of the raised garden. They were never cut when they were small and have now grown pretty big. I was going to leave two of them to shade the bed as it was originally shaded by a large pine tree itself. (Bittersweet strangled it and will continue to be a problem for me for many seasons, I'm sure).

The hosta are planted right on the boundary line, I guess I can be thankful that they didn't gouge them up when they dropped the trees...

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b240/Sharlibby/Lot.jpg?t=1174767486

The black line is the street, the yard extends a little past the bottom of the illustration, and the right boundary line is the edge of the frame. The long bed is chock full of raspberry plants, when we moved in they were 10 feet high and bent from one side of the bed and rooted to the other. It took me two weekends to cut them, and I found a barbecue grill in the middle of the mess. I guess they forgot to do the gardening...

These pix were taken today..

This is the property line, the hosta are in a row right on the edges of both sides of the driveway.
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b240/Sharlibby/S3010029-1.jpg?t=1174767303

This is the backyard. The little mound just below the red door on the right is a raised bed 5'x7'
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b240/Sharlibby/S3010028-1.jpg?t=1174767574

These are the only trees left on the property line, but there are already Rhodies living there. They are rambling into the woods, but seem pretty happy.
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b240/Sharlibby/S3010021.jpg?t=1174767965

Well, I still can't tell from your description where the hostas are direction-wise...north, south, east or west. LOL I think maybe they are eastern exposure....? If so, you are totally fine. Eastern is actually great for hostas b/c the morning sun is mild. Please correct me if I am wrong. If it's western, they might cook (but again, highly unlikely they will actually die).

Oh MY...I can't believe they cut those huge trees down!!! What was he thinking?? What on earth is he going to do w/ that area?

They are on the eastern side of the house...I hope that they will be ok. They're sugh a gorgeous thing to see when left to their own devices, and have to be at least 10 years old from what the left side neighbor says.

Oh, the trees? The elderly woman who owned the house has died, leaving it to her children. She left in her will that her long-time caretaker (also her grand-daughter) was to live in the home for "as long as she wanted to" and left a trust to pay the taxes for ten years.

The children decided that they would rather break up the lot into three pieces and sell it, along with the house. They are using the money from the trust to clear the land and make it a "blank slate" for the future buyers. The grand-daughter was kicked out and the house put up for sale at a huge price.

This all started nearly a year ago, and the house has been empty. They pulled out all of her gardens and plan to put a driveway through the back yard to the new lots. It's sad, really.

That truly IS sad...what a bummer!!!

As for your hostas, they will be happy as hogs w/ eastern exposure! No worries, they will do great!

Wow, if the house was left to her, how did they kick her out?! That young gal needs a lawyer!

The increased sun will require increased water, if you water consistantly.