Starts out pure white, then turns speckled green, then usually dies....

I had two of them. HAD is the key word. Mikgag's comments sums up this one.

-Babka

Mine looks like this all season.

Mine lasted about 3 years, then kaput.

-Babka

H'mm. Glad I didn't pay full price if it doesn't last long!

Lindalana, how old is yours? Seeing the tag, fairly new?

Bought it early spring. So far so good.

Time will tell...

-Babka

So apart from the longevity issue, the edge stays white?

It has been on mine.

Here is mine later in August of this year. I have had it since 2015. Not a vigorous grower but very pretty.

The edges on mine on some leaves got speckled and misty. No real heat here. I would call it SLOW and not very stable. I also had h. 'Great Escape' (similar/same) because a forum member said it didn't get the misty edges, but in the end, for me, it behaved the same as 'Blue Ivory'.

-Babka

I’m going to move my Blue Ivory to its own bed or a pot. It seems that the edges hate any kind of contact and go brown or disintegrate where any other leaf touches. It’s a beautiful sturdy Hosta otherwise.

My Ivory Queen, which I realize is a sport of Blue Ivory, did not grow much this year either. It only had about 5 leaves. I wonder if it shares the slow-growth trait with Blue Ivory.

Love the photos! I don't have one but like Esther, I do have its sport, Ivory Queen as well. Added to my collection May 2015. It was difficult to determine its growth since 2015 by looking at my pictures (and counting leaves, lol) so I looked up my pip count list. Upon purchase it came with 2 divisions. In 2016 it emerged with 7-8 and this spring it had 9. I think it grows faster with more sunlight as most/all plants do.

I would love to add a Blue Ivory and plant it beside my First Frost. NHL, your photo with the droplets is gorgeous....you enabler! ;-)

edited to add:. Just checked the Hosta Library... Blue Ivory originated as a sport of Halcyon... as it is related to June and progeny its growth rate should then be relative to those? I have a few growing in sun and they are multiplying at a faster rate than the one under the deck which receives morning sunlight only. Halcyon and family is known to readily accept more sunlight without marring their beauty.

Sunnywood, your plant may not have multiple divisions but it sure stands out! Beautiful!

I have two Blue Ivory hostas, the first planted in 2008. Both are still alive, but the first did not fare well until I gave it an extra dose of compost. The second one, planted about three years ago, has done beautifully. I enriched its planting hole with more care and attention than I usually give hosta and it has rewarded me. The colours are beautiful, but it is a slow grower. But I think it is a worthwhile hosta - but, like Great Expectations, requires a little more care and attention in its siting than most of them do.

My Blue Ivory has been worth keeping. Slugs rarely bother it, and it definitely stands out in the yard. It doesn't start out yellow like First Frost, but it does show wear and tear sooner. Mine hasn't been such a slow grower that I would have given up on it, but I got it as a good-size plant. Here's a pic from June 2014. Blue Ivory, Halcyon, and June were all obtained as nice-size plants from the same eBay seller in June 2010. Back then I didn't know about patents and all, so the first thing I did after receiving them was to divide them. Thus all three plants you're seeing had been divided at least twice by this 2014 pic. I didn't use to fertilize at all until recently, and they only received whatever rain they got (2017 was the first year I babied the yard, and all it did was rot several of the new baby TC hostas). Unlike the TC baby hostas I got this year and planted in soil-less soil, the three you see in this pic have been grown in heavy clay soil with mulch on top...literally nothing else added to it.

Up until this year, I questioned whether this Blue Ivory was BI at all since I only received metal tags with them back in 2010 and this BI never displayed the blue blush...up until this year. Last Fall I planted one division under our dogwood tree which is tiny and yet the BI definitely noticed the difference and came back with the blue blush only in that one location (more shade than the others). All have Northern exposure with a good amount of sun, but obviously not as much as Southern exposure (which I did try with a couple of divisions too, and they fried badly enough that I moved them back to Northern). So I'd say the trickiest part about it is finding the right spot for it. Too much sun and it burns too badly...too little sun and the blue blush will diminish its beautiful white edge (which is similar to but wider than El Nino's). The only thing that I might contribute the growth of mine to is that I do chop off any ugly-looking leaves quite regularly, which I'm guessing has been forcing it to put out more eyes. Long story short, in my experience, BI is definitely a slower grower than Halcyon and June, but not nerve-wrecking slow. It doesn't stay crisp-looking as long as the other two, but cutting off blemished/burnt leaves solves that for me even though it obviously makes it appear even smaller.

Here are a couple of mid-May 2015 pics. I still only had the trio from 2010 (Blue Ivory, Halcyon, June) back then.

Finally, here's one from June 2015. Divided them at least one more time since then. This year the yard looks completely different...gave up the neat/structured look for a wild/stuffed garden of sorts, after adding way too many new hostas, astilbe, and sedums this year. Won't be posting any pics of that till I hopefully have it cleaned up a bit (next year?), which'll probably require removing a good amount of them from this tight space.

Thanks! Interesting that it’s a sport of halcyon. My Junes grow like weeds, but I do have most in a fair bit of sun because I want the gold color. The ones in shade don’t look like much of anything as far as color is concerned.

This is the only one from my fall sale buying spree that has not been planted yet. Best viewing location would require moving out / dividing a big anemone robutissima first. I think if you move those in the fall they die.

So it may get planted nearby and then moved in the spring.

I've divided and/or moved my hostas just about every year I've had them. Now that there are more of them, won't plan on dividing or moving for a while, unless it's to remove/gift some of them due to overcrowding. So your BI should do just fine if you plant it in the ground anywhere just for the winter, and then worry about a more permanent spot next year. I find that they react to the previous year's sun exposure, in other words the ones I had planted on South side last year have a crazy amount of white in them this year even though they were planted back on North side last Fall. Similarly, the one that was planted under the tree last Fall is the only one with the blue blush this year, and that's how it came up this Spring before the tree even leafed out.

Know what you mean about June in the shade... I have kind of a love-hate relationship with my Junes anyway. Bothered the heck out of me that the ones in that old row (pics above) looked noticeably different because some were getting more sun than others, plus I loved the blueness of other people's shade-grown hosta pics. So I moved all my Junes into full shade...and kinda hate them more now. Will probably move 'em back into sun next year. I do love how most mature hostas seem to do well whether you neglect them or baby them. My new TC ones were so darn finicky earlier this year, but seem to be okay now too that I've stopped watering them to death (well, apparently a few of them didn't make it, but the rest are fine). They definitely have some competition now though that there are several more astilbe and sedum varieties in the yard too :) Not sure I'll have the patience to wait for all of the baby TC hostas to show their mature looks before removing them to let the rest have more room. My baby El Ninos are looking the most disappointing this year...very narrow white edge, and the "blue" has been looking green all year long.