I'd take a close look at the crown.

Pieter

What do you think I should be looking for peter……planted too deep, crumbling? It looked so healthy when I planted it………:-(

debra

Debra, it certainly doesn't look too deeply planted in the first picture you show, so I'm leaning towards there being a root problem. Dig it up and see if there are nice firm, whitish roots or are they brownish and squishy...

Pieter.

Update here, after researching hosta diseases the leaves looked suspiciously like anthracose….. I did dig it out to look closely at the crown, but it seemed like a bunch of leaves sort of not coming out of any thing that looked like a crown. It reminded me of the Great Expetations I had to dig up a few years back, the crown was brown and crumbly.

I threw both plants away immediately.

debra