Mine would be Brass Ring. Walter's Gardens says this one "will still look fabulous late in the season".

While I can name all 400 hostas in my garden without reading the tags, I sometimes have trouble naming the same hostas outside my gardens. While I was wandering through Hallsons nursery a few weeks ago, I immediately spotted Chris' section of Brass Ring hostas. They looked just as horrible as mine. He said it was not growing well for him either.

Both Chris' and my Brass Rings were being grown in a lot of shade, I wonder if that contributed to the edges melting. I moved mine where it will get more light next season and will be under the misting irrigation. If it does the same thing next year, it will end up on the other side of the fence.

Fire and Ice has been a slow grower for me, it didn't grow scapes this year. It looked great though, until the slugs got it in late August.

Gesila

That would have to be Fair Maiden. I bought it locally on a whim. I had heard that can be a slug magnet and the edges melt. It sure did that for me.

I bought F&I also this year. It looked good in the Spring and then it got eaten by a rabbit right down to the nubs. It came back with smaller leaves ( I sprayed it with Liquid Fence), but with many more eyes than before. Right now it's doing great. Maybe you should get a rabbit to eat yours.

I bought two montana Aureomarginatas. One has done just fine while the other which has more sun has struggled all year. Right now it has 4 leaves. I'll give it another year in its spot.

Sun Power, Regal Splendor and Krossa Regal are a mess, but that's because of when they were shipped. They arrived flaccid and never recovered. At least they're still alive (I hope).

I have Sum and Substance as a second year plant in full sun and it's really fried. It's going on a drip system next year to see if that helps. If it doesn't perform better next year, then it will go into the shade before it gets too big to be moved.

Steve

all 1500 of them.. it was a horrible year .. late very cold spring.. straight into 100 degrees and drought ... cant wait until its over ...

i have had.. 8 fire and ice .. just get rid of it.. it might even commit suicide for you over winter.. its carp ... and no better than remember me ... or GE ...

yeah yeah.. now we will get pix of the two peeps who grow all of them to perfection .. lol .. but that is off topic ...

ken

It would have to be Sea Ebony. I got it this spring, and it looked terrible from day one, like it had been stepped on, but I had hopes for it anyway. But it just got smaller and smaller all summer, until it vanished completely.

The heat and drought took a toll on the rest of the hostas, too, by the end of the summer most of them were noticeably smaller than they started out--even the old established, mature ones. I just would like winter to steal in and put them all gently to sleep with a white blanket, until the sun awakens them in the spring. This year needs to be over.

Maui Buttercups. I bought a beautiful(expensive) plant last year with many mature eyes. Came back this year as a sickly 3 eyed plant and is showing no signs of improving.

Paul's Glory. It grew nicely but it's just ugly after it loses its spring color.

I'd agree with Fire and Ice, although it didn't disappoint me because I didn't expect anything. I guess I was surprised it was still alive. I've had it many years and it's now about four inches across.

Or maybe it's only one inch across. I planted Fire and Ice and Loyalist in a new spot a few years back. Both are still alive. One is very, very, very small and the other is a lot smaller than that. I'm not sure which is which.

Great Expectations. Can someone tell me what happened here? This is the same plant yesterday. All hostas are nuts. The other was Frances Williams. I did not like the prenatal bruising on her leaves. I told people she drank heavily and took to driving my car at night.
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My oldest nice Hosta, the Sagae it better not still be 1 eye when its 5 or 6 years old next year ! I did follow some ideas and raise it up in the ground..it really was to deep.

other than that, I had a sum and substance that really did awful considering its spot..I think the blast furnace (summer) we had was the problem though.

My one other casualty was placed in a pot..one decent plant turned into 4 baby ones for some reason.. And I have this squirrel that gets in that one pot and digs them up over and over, No idea why its always the same plant container...

Looks like some critter jumped into the pot and ate half of your GE. What are those blue leaves that are in there?

Steve

Glass rocks. I add them for decor and use with the bubbler so not to disturb the soil.

All of them this year. First to cold, then to hot, then to hot and to dry. Parhelion looked the absolute worst though., Next spring I will move it, give it a couple of years and if it doesn't start improving it will hit the compost pile.

Wide Brim - Purchased in early June and hasn't grown a bit.

Little Sunspot - Purchased late August and is wasting away.

All other hostas doing great with avg. temps. and ample rain.

Sum and Substance for the 5th year in a row. I had planted it in a location that receives 2 hours of late morning sun and it fried. I then planted hibiscus next to it so when the heat of summer came they would provide 1 of the 2 hours with dappled shade and it still fried. This year I installed a window box planted with chartreuse and purple sweet potato vines and a yellow heuchera which reduced direct sun to 1/2 hour and it still fried. It keeps getting larger each year but it is hard to notice since it is being so crowded by my trying to protect it. It drank almost 50% of my water budget this year. It is getting moved next spring to a locstion where it will receive only dappled sun.

As for Great Expectations I have tried growing it 5 times and have now given up. I am looking for a dependable "look-alike" for it, and Cathedral Windows might be a substitute.

Les

Dancing in the Rain and Singing in the Rain, both bought in 2009 and are duds.
Dancing in the Rain : bought two plants, are white centered, looked like 1 year TCs, gave them a bleach bath first against nematodes, they keep growing at the same size they were initially now for 2 years, supposedly to be 32 inches tall when mature.
Singing in the Rain : bought 2 potted plants, looked good in 2009, got hit by frosts in spring 2010, since then have shrunk to 1 eye, are not too deep. I just bought another potted plant, planted in the front.. might work there.

I also have a tale about Eskimo Pie, another white-centered one which is to get 30 in tall. One is small for the third year, the other had crown rot, now grows a nice looking green plant.
Bernd

leaflover76 I believe that your Fire and Ice is planted too deep. F&I is a slow grower until established. I have mine for 8 some years, moved it a couple of times. 5 years and its current location and I really love it now. Looks very similar as the one pictured above. Wanted to move it to a main bed but decided not to disturb it again.
The problem with GE is crown rot.
Just my 2 cents.

I agree with the others that stated all of them. It was too hot for too long with no rain for several months. The only ones that did marginally well was Fire and Ice (looks good but does not grow) and Minuteman. Everything else did not do well no matter how much I tried to water. Hope next year is better.

Me, too-almost all of them. My Clifford's Stingray never did much and this year it bit the dust. Too bad.

Millies Memoirs - reverting to all gold and smaller than ever this summer. Good bye - I sent it to the mulch pile.

Daniss, if you get this...I have the same problem you did Years ago. Something eating heuchera under netting! Did you ever figure out what it was? It's awful. 5-6 new plants destroyed.