Daily Hosta - 'Dorset Clown' - add your pics

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Daily Hosta - 'Dorset Clown' - add your pics

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Name: H. 'Dorset Clown'

Description: streaked with substance, smooth substance, good breeder, passes on blue seedlings. Slow growth rate.

Size: Small, 8" h.
Origin: Parentage Unknown
Flowers: near white, tubular
Source: Goldenbrook Hostas
Added to garden: Spring 2012
Notes: this is a new one for me this year. Still pretty small and I gather it grows very slowly, but will get somewhat larger. Anyone know for sure?

Registry Link: http://hostaregistrar.org/detail.php?id ... et%20Clown
MyHostas Database link: http://myhostas.be/db/hostas/Dorset+Clown
Hosta Library - http://www.hostalibrary.org/d/dorsetclown.html
'Dorset Clown', July 14, 2012
'Dorset Clown', July 14, 2012
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Just lovely
Against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
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Dorset_Clown-leaf-120619-1sx.jpg
Here's a single leaf. I nearly forgot that I took lots of leaf pictures this year. But I should have put a penny on each one for scale.
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'Dorset Clown' 2014
This one has grown quite a bit in the last 2 years. It flowered in mid-July 2014, but did not set seed.
Dorset_Clown-2014-140716s.jpg
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2015 - July 25. This one is in too much sun this year and became faded in August, but its growth was good. And it flowered and I have ONE seed pod. :D
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2016 update - July 23
Dorset_Clown-2016-0723s.jpg
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2017 update. Photo July 27. This one did set seed in 2015 and I've got a little seedling from 2016. So much white that it's growing slowly, but it is streaky.
Dorset_Clown-2017-0727s.jpg
However the plant is unstable. In 2018, it emerged with one large eye that had stabilized to a plant with a margin.
Dorset_Clown-180522s.jpg
Photo May 22.

I divided it and this is what I got.
The original plant, a bit the worse for having been tampered with. Photo June 7.
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The stabilized section.
Dorset_Clown-sport-180607s.jpg
And one of two streaked sections. I'll offer one to my Hort. Society auction next spring if it remains streaky.
Dorset_Clown2-180607s.jpg
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