oooh, sorry for your loss!

Since that has crown in tact, I bet you could re-root that in water!

Your "before" photo is worthy of a wallpaper page. VERY nice. The subject of your post prepared me for the worst, but your "after" photos still got to me. I'm SO sorry you lost one of those beauties.

-Babka

Oh my, I've never seen vole damage before. I'm so sorry, Bressingham Blue was beautiful.

My vole damage has been mild compaired to what you have suffered. Ir ia War Time.
I am sooooo sorry.

Les

There are some roots left. Just cut most of the leaves and replant the plant. It will grow back. I had very similar damage on my large Dream Queen and replanted it in a 14" hardware basket. I had to move the DQ recently and when I took the backet out of the ground, new roots were already growning out from the backet.
Dani

Don't cut the leaves whatever you do. If that plant is going to regenerate roots it will need all the leaves it has to provide food and energy for the plant. It is a myth that you need to balance roots and leaves on a plant that has suffered root damage. Here's a link to an article about root damaged plants.

Steve

Here is a link that might be useful: Handling Auction Plants

Nice slide show Steve. Can you repost the link?

Gesilla,

Are you talking about the Tower Hill slide show? I posted that in the New England Gardening forum because there really aren't any Hosta in those pics. The only Hostas in the garden were small and/or slug eaten. Hardly worth taking pictures of. In any case here is the link.

Oh, BTW, I did pick up 4 new Hosta while I was at Tower Hill today, Wheaton Blue, Pandora's Box, Cutting Edge and Rhino Hide (I hope Don patented RH).

Steve

Here is a link that might be useful: Tower Hill Botanic Garden

Steve...we need the link to "root damaged plants". HELP???

-Babka

Whoops, had the wrong link on my clipboard. Here's the correct one.

Steve

Here is a link that might be useful: Handling Auction Plants

How do voles compare to MOLES ? are they smaller? similar?

If voles ARE just like a mole, and dig a raised path,or track, buy one of these..

http://www.tractorsupply.com/lawn-garden/lawn-garden-pest-control/rodent-bait-traps/easy-mole-trap-trade--4208197

If you learn to set it right, scissors in tunnel, trigger STRAIGHT down..you will be a professional killer in no time ;) My Moms farm was being shredded around the house by these little creeps, I went through them like you can't believe..I got a dozen kills in a couple weeks, some times two a day.. the key is finding fresh tunnels, and setting the trap right.. I almost miss trapping them ;)

There is a difference between moles and voles, but I'm not the one to state what it is..

My mother gave me a plant which she called "the mole plant"...and it sort of repelled them. We had MOLES down south, not VOLES, if I remember correctly. Don't know if the same repellents work on both critters.

It turns out that the plant she called the mole plant is also known as CASHMERE BOUQUET. It is somewhat prolific growing in shade, and it has blooms on it which have an overpowering aroma. Heavy, musky sort of. Whether it has other qualities that moles do not like or not, signs of mole tunnels disappeared from my yard after I planted them.

Hopefully you can resuscitate the injured twin and this vole invasion will be only a bad dream next spring.

A difference between voles and moles is that moles eat worms and grubs, but no roots. I have no longer moles, probably because I fight grubs in the lawn with Grubex. But in case I see a mole run, I put a spring loaded spikes type trap over it, always kills that mole.
Bernd