Eskimo pie and island charm because I left them in unprotected pots. The first two Frances Williams I bought rotted in the ground for some odd reason.

Cherish died in ground, as did Lonesome Dove...just vanished.

And Pandora's Box is clinging to life by a thread.

Voles got a few but they didn't quite kill them off.

It seems like he more you pay for them, the more likley they are to die!!

In my garden Northern Halo and Twilight are still MIA. Definitely gone are:

Fair Maiden
Island Charm
Cameo
Wooly Mammoth (really sorry about this one)
Choo choo train

Severe vole damage to:
Krossa Regal
American Halo
August Moon
and a couple of others I still need to dig and check

I hate voles

Alexa

GONE:
Brim Cup - my only HVX experience and I tossed it
Lacey Belle - death by squirrels/rabbits
Morning Light - disappeared/died all by itself over several years
Deja Blu - MIA, don't think it got planted last fall but can't find the pot?

ON THEIR WAY OUT:
Alex Summers - on its way out since last spring, was planted too deep, looks puny this year
Americana - moved during the heat wave and drought last summer and hasn't recovered
LS Storm Watch - planted too late last year and it ground heaved, not sure if it will recover

MAKING A COMEBACK:
Queen Josephine - eaten by rabbits in year 1, hung on in year 2, now starting to grow in year 3
Golden Scepter - badly planted in year 1, relocated but then disappeared in year 2, came back from the roots in year 3!

I forgot to put "Stilletto" on my list. It was a no show this year Oh and montana Mountain Snow. My list just keeps growing!

Alexa....have you ever tried making the vole traps....they really work. I set one for my friend and before we had walked 10 feet away were heard it snap and sure enough...GOT ONE!
Vole damage was really bad this year I think because of the very mild winter!

Maui buttercups.
Looked great when i bought it as a fairly mature plant. Just went down hill all last season and hasn't come back this year.

I meant Cameo, not Cherish.

I also lost two to HVX- Halcyon and Wolverine.

This is a good thread. I have nothing to contribute, but just wanted to let you all know that the lurkers are benefiting from your experiences as well.
Christine

some minis and smalls like Cat's Eye, Cherish(or Cameo?)...can't remember,Hope, Maui Buttercups, Lakeside Elfin Fire(tried & lost twice)
Also Cherry Berry, Dreamweaver and Sum of All

Suprised to hear a couple of you have lost August Moon...that is my hardiest, most rapidly increasing one. A few years ago I separated a couple of divisions in fall and left them out in yard, bare root, and forgot about them. They made it through a very cold winter.

LS Paisley Print - this past winter. Probably was too small to survive the winter.

Striptease - to HVX, Good thing it was in a pot.

Ice Age Trail - I just noticed a tiny green shoot yesterday. We'll give it more time. Everything else came back.

This doesn't count the dozens of Lancifolia and Undulata Erromena that I've tried to kill. They refuse to die.

Steve

I didn't even list LS Elfin Fire - lsot 2 of them too, but not this past winter. And Cherry Berry is the biggest loser ever in my garden! I bought it AGAIN 2 years ago and it didn't even survive the growing season let alone overwinter LOL!

Alexa

Oh, that reminds me- Fireworks! Long gone.

I have two Elfin Fires. The one in the ground is fine but the one in the pot looks like it might be ailing this year.

Sally_grower says:"Alexa....have you ever tried making the vole traps....they really work. I set one for my friend and before we had walked 10 feet away were heard it snap and sure enough...GOT ONE! "

Sally, if you don't mind, could you send me the information about what kind of vole trap you used? Similar to a mouse trap or something? My email is on member page. Thanks.

moccasinlanding, I sent you an e-mail

Thanks, Sally!!

I just found my Tropical Storm didn't come up. Looks like she stayed too wet in the cinder block wall. I'm going to try to revive her in my hydro planter.

Gesila

This year Lakeside Dragonfly hasn't show up yet. Poor thing got moved a couple of times and then buried in Virginia Creeper last year. If the Creeper was underneath it, I might have pulled it out without realizing it. :( But I haven't given up hope yet.

Dancing in the Rain (gardener error and seemed like a weak plant)
Orange Marmalade (gardener error -Vinca Major overtook it)
Plantaginea (unknown reason, didn't show up in spring after fall planting)
Thunderbolt (unknown reason, dwindled away to nothing)
Zounds (gardener error -Vinca Major overtook it)

Brim Cup - HVX
Brother Stefan - didn't come back (dcb)
Country Mouse - dcb
Designer Genes - southern blight
El Nino - dcb
Empress Wu - dcb
Fantasy Island - dcb
Fire and Ice - dcb
Ginsu Knife - HVX (bought at a hosta society sale)
Grand Slam - Southern blight
Guardian Angel - dcb
Lakeside Elfin Fire - dcb
Lakeside Shore Master - Southern Blight
Little Sunspot - dcb
Pandora's Box - dcb
Serendipity Singer - dcb
Spartan Glory - dcb
Surprised by Joy - dcb
Teeny Weeny Bikini - dcb
The Shining - dcb
X Rated - dcb

Obviously I have trouble with minis.

I have destroyed some on suspicion on HVX, but mainly because they started to become smaller instead of bigger: Sum and Substance, Krossa Regal, Wide Brim, Gold Standard. White Feathers has not come up yet, I suspect it did not like being devided, it was absolutely gorgeous for some years. I have also destroyed Cherry Berry and Red October because I paniced about some spots on the leaves that I could not find explanation for.

From the best of my memory here is mine. My journals are not available to me at this time.
-Fireworks
-Great Expectations (3 attempts)
-Summer Breeze
-Shade Fanfare
-Francis Williams (3 attempts, and I think one is going to make it unless it is a look-alike. It is just growing up. It was one of two variegated I had found with Krossa Regal tags, in a group of Krossa Regal at a garden center.)

Les

On a garden tour, the gardener had create a boot hill - all the hosta name labels that had passed in one area. Nice touch of humor.

Paul

Here is a link that might be useful: Boot Hill

Sally, Mountain Snow is always the absolute latest hosta to emerge in my garden. I finally saw it just this weekend, about 3 inches out of the ground. Don't give up hope yet, especially if it's planted in cool shade!

Dancing in the Rain....

Really wanted it, bought it three times!!! (from reputable breeders) Died every time.

Woohoo! Only hosta people would understand my excitement. Last year I was on my hands and knees searching for my Orange Marmalade, without any luck. I thought it was a gonner. This spring it sent a leaf straight up into the air like it was sending up a rescue flare. Now I've moved it to a much better spot, watered, and Sluggo'd. It has two pieces to it. It's ratty looking, but it's a survivor!

I keep track of my plants at this house. I pay very close attention to what killed/how a hosta died. I have 45 hosta at this house now, and clearly the rabbits are my Enemy #1.

RABBITS - The following were eaten by rabbits repeatedly down to the nubs and never recovered:
-Love Pat
-Jewel of the Nile
-Sum of All
-***Empress Wu has been eaten down to the crown 2 years in a row now and odds are low it will come up in 2013.

EROSION - Planted on slope and I didn't take precautions for soil erosion:
-Sea Fire
-Montana Aureomarginata

TREE ROOT COMPETITION:
-Sum and Substance

UNKNOWN - Just didn't come back & no obvious reason:
-Bressingham Blue
-Thunderbolt

Gayle

Great Expectations.

Invincible and Moonlight Sonata. Planted 8.11.11. Both from Made in the Shade. Thought I was getting plants, so planted them accordingly. Now, I realize that I should have treated them as more like liners. Both dead as doornail. Not a happy camper.

Incidentally, all of the liners that I ordered last summer survived nicely with the exception for Great Expectations & Aphrodite, both struggling.

One I thought was a goner for sure was Stained Glass. It never went totally dormant last winter, added two leaves. Those were the ONLY leaves it had this year, and they began to fade away. But wait...what is this....a new shoot began to emerge from the middle of the two old leaves--after I dug up the plant and checked its root system--maybe it was too deep for the crown to grow? Who knows....but now I am rejoicing because I have TWO Stained Glass, counting the replacement I bought when I thought I'd lose the first one.

Wouldn't you think this was a goner? but showing a new shoot

and here that plant is one day last week--just ZOOM--just in time too

Now I have a newly arrived Venusta which is without a root, only had one fat one to begin with and no side feeders, and I have it in the kitchen window where I water it a little every time I stand there. It is staying somewhat green at the bottom and middle, so I'm hoping it is making new roots. Otherwise, the poor baby is a goner too.

Little Jay and Holy Mouse Ears

Only Baby bunting and white feather that I know of. But I don't have the amount of Hosta's that most of you do.

Atlantis
Great Expectations - 2nd one I have purchased and will not waste money on another.
Cascades
Ryan's Big One - have had it since 2008 with no problem but this year it is barely peaking thru.

My best guess is soil erosion since most of my hosta garden is on a hill, some areas steeper than others; they are being buried.

I do have some ground cover in some areas to help with erosion.

Any suggestions to help protect them from being buried?

Fire and Ice - after it declined three years in a row and appeared full of nematodes, i tossed it.
Wide Brim - purchased at a BB and was full of nematodes after a summer in a pot.
NOID - badly infected with hosta virus, but researching the variety led me to Hosta Library and Garden Web!
Jan

I haven't lost many. (I only have abt. 35)

I lost Barbara Ann and Paradigm to crown rot. Neither were vigorous plants.

I tossed Diamond Tiara because it was virused.

I lost two Wide Brim that were in a planter box - they just didn't come back. I finally potted up the struggling survivors and they are doing fine. I put impatiens in the planter box and they are doing fine as well.

bkay