What Could Have Killed All My Ferns And Hostas?

I have 5 shaded flower beds at the edge of the woods. I live in southern Ohio. I grow mostly hostas and ferns. Daffodils come up in the spring. This year the daffodils came up but not a single fern or hosta in 2 1/2 beds. What could have killed them all? I don’t fertilize them. I do have mulch put down every year, but this is the first in 20 years that nothing has come up.

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#1 Comment By GKH_Susan On 05/11/2020 @ 5:52 pm

And they were healthy last fall? Was it a wet winter that might have caused root rot? These articles should help:
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/foliage/hosta/hosta-problems.htm ^[1]

https://extension.psu.edu/fern-diseases ^[2]

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