Color glory

[Mark Raw]

Does anyone have experince with colorglory? I saw a few at a local garden cntre and thought it lookes similar to Pauls glory so didnt get one
However I beleive its a giant and there grown at the garden cntre and are cheap is it worth getting if I already have Pauls glory?

[Pieter]

"Paul's Glory', 'Paradigm' and 'Color Glory' look so similar I'd say any one of the three will do in a given garden, can't see much point in having any two of these, never mind all three.

But that's just me.....

[rockNhostas]

I have Color Glory and it's ok, but it is nowhere near what I would consider giant sized. I agree with Pieter....it's too similar to the others to make it worth purchasing.

But that's just me, too.

[Mark Raw]

Ok thanks for that I wont bother as I thought they looked very similar.

[Linda P]

Color Glory is a real beauty about one year out of ten. Most years it develops the spring desication burn. Mine was a huge clump, at one time. I took a piece from it for much daughter, and then a few years later it developed a big blue sport. By the time I took the blue part off, there was not much left of it, and it dwindled down to a leaf or two. It's making a comeback now, but the blue sport of it is a really nice big blue.

[Mark Raw]

what is the blue parent of CG?

[Mark Raw]

Looks a bit Siaboldiana ??

[Pieter]

This is what you find on Hugo's Database:

=sieboldiana 'Borwick Beauty'.
='Color Glory'.
The leaf has a chartreuse-green center with a wide blue-green margin; white flowers. Takes a good deal of sun in the northwest. Burns easily.
A sieboldiana type, the plant starts the season with a modest chartreuse center and blue edges. As the season progresses, the center color intensifies to include shades of bright yellow and cream. Note: This plant has mistakenly been sold as 'Color Glory', which does NOT EXIST!
From England comes this beautiful gold-centered H. sieboldiana 'Elegans' sport.
Heavy substance. Lavender flowers.
Found in England by Graham and Betty McBurnie in a row of sieboldiana 'Elegans' prior to 1984, registered by B.H.H.S. in 1988. Center of leaf chartreuse-green with wide blue-green margin, slightly smaller that 'Great Expectations', white flowers.

[poppi]

I have Color Glory and it looks nothing like Paul's Glory and it's huge. I will take a picture 4 you and post it. I too have some blue reversions/sports. I took one off last year and it looks like I need to do that again. It's not as striking as PG but it is beautiful...but then aren't they all.

[Linda P]

Pieter, thanks for that reminder about the name mix-up with Color Glory and Borwick Beauty.

Linda P

[jgh]

I've got an old Borwick Beauty... its big and sheltered - and has very unsightly spring desication. This was a bad year for sieboldianas here... long dry early spring... and the desication "burn" is some of the worst I've ever seen. Still... maybe made up for a little by everything being a month earlier than usual...