Mine was new for me last year I planted in the ground & worried all winter when we have the deepest snow ever, then the most flooding. The area in my IAT is in flooded about 3weeks before it came up then the puddle froze, feared the worst. Well its alive & looks nice ,but I do agree on the slow growth .

I lost 8 hostas this year. 7 were due to a dog deciding she was a deer and eating the tenders. The 8th was Ice Age Trail, I was so excited to get it last year. It did very well last summer but then just didn't come back, glad to see yours doing so well, maybe I'll order another. Annette

With the streaked plants they are unstable and will often either settle out to an edge variegated pattern, a middle variegated pattern, or become solid colored. To keep the streaked pattern it is best to divide off the solid part, although some say to just remove all the solid leaves but I haven't ever tried that. The edge variegated Ice Age Trail is Sugar Daddy, middle variegated is Sugar Mama, and solid blue-green is Big Daddy.

Nicholsworth, June and IAT get at least six hours of sun, and this summer in Germany is a hot one and the sun is blazing. I'm amazed how they stand these conditions. I take care of watering them properly and the color of June is really nice and I think the hostas on the sunny side grow much quicker. ConnieMay, I got my IAT from a very good hosta friend who is paying close attention to his streakers and he would not send something that is not worth the money :-) I read that IAT is in a line from Big Daddy, a blue one, so yours might be slowly reverting. That's why I thought in the beginning that it might not stand sun so well, but nevertheless I tried and was rewarded with those great colors. Does yours get much sun? I will have to see what my IAT will be like through the years, normally I don't like streakers too much because of the attention they need to remove reverting eyes. But I fell in love with this one, passion overruled my scepticism...