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Gold Standard sports

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I know there's a million of them (slight over statement). Last season I came upon a few that looked like a GS reverse - green center with gold edge - and called them Var A through F. I thought they were the same sports but this season there are two groups (leaving out the streakers). One has a dull gold edge that is fading now - not much to look at. The other has a bright gold edge that looks like it will stay for the season. This season I picked up two more that looked like green center with a dull gold edge - Var G and Var H. But one turns out to be really different. I was getting pictures yesterday and I found the gold edge is fading on the Var H. No big deal. But I couldn't find Var G. Where it should be I'm seeing a normal Gold Standard until I looked at it closely. It is the Var G but it has flipped its colors and added some "lightning" between the colors. Really neat looking. This is the same leaf.
Gold Standard rev Var G  May 4, 2010
Gold Standard rev Var G May 4, 2010
Gold Standard rev Var G  June 5, 2010
Gold Standard rev Var G June 5, 2010
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Well that is certainly unexpected! It will be interesting to watch that one.

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Interesting. Haven't seen that before from GS.
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Striptease is a sport of Gold Standard... looks like you may be independently starting another branch on that very complicated family tree!
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Last season I picked up a GS sport called Flip Flop which had the same color switch. I didn't notice the third color in it. I was out getting some shots this morning and found some FF leaves with that same color streaking in the leaf after the color "flip". So I just found the same sport.
Flip Flop  May 15, 2009
Flip Flop May 15, 2009
Flip Flop  same leaf  July 1, 2009
Flip Flop same leaf July 1, 2009
Flip Flop   same leaf  July 29, 2009
Flip Flop same leaf July 29, 2009
Flip Flop  with 3 colors  June 9, 2010
Flip Flop with 3 colors June 9, 2010
Flip Flop  new leaves  with lighter edge
Flip Flop new leaves with lighter edge
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Just an update on this one. I was going over some photos today an noticed I had photos of the same leaf that shows the color shift.
Gold Standard rev Var G - May 1, 2012
Gold Standard rev Var G - May 1, 2012
Gold Standard rev Var G - May 1, 2012
Gold Standard rev Var G - May 1, 2012
Gold Standard rev Var G - July 11, 2012
Gold Standard rev Var G - July 11, 2012
Here is a photo from early 2011:
Gold Standard rev Var G - May 7, 2011
Gold Standard rev Var G - May 7, 2011
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This one is still here. I think tree root competition is keeping its size down.
Gold Standard rev Var G - May 14, 2014
Gold Standard rev Var G - May 14, 2014
Gold Standard rev Var G - May 14, 2014
Gold Standard rev Var G - May 14, 2014
Gold Standard rev Var G - May 14, 2014
Gold Standard rev Var G - May 14, 2014
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I dug this one up last season to pot it and try to keep it out of danger. This year the leaves are a lot smaller with a lot of puckering - I think it got hit by frost.
Gold Standard rev Var G - May 25, 2015
Gold Standard rev Var G - May 25, 2015
Gold Standard rev Var G - May 25, 2015
Gold Standard rev Var G - May 25, 2015
Gold Standard rev Var G - May 25, 2015
Gold Standard rev Var G - May 25, 2015
Gold Standard rev Var G - May 25, 2015
Gold Standard rev Var G - May 25, 2015
Gold Standard rev Var G - May 25, 2015
Gold Standard rev Var G - May 25, 2015
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This one is looking a lot better this season - Gold Standard Reverse Var G. I was calling this "Suspicious Behavior" but a better name hit me recently "Aurora's Brother" because it acts like Aurora's Glow but it's not as flashy.
"Aurora's Brother" - May 12, 2016
"Aurora's Brother" - May 12, 2016
"Aurora's Brother" - May 12, 2016
"Aurora's Brother" - May 12, 2016
"Aurora's Brother" - May 12, 2016
"Aurora's Brother" - May 12, 2016
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And here is another one that dates back to 2010. I shown this before. Gold Standard Var J.
It was a "normal" GS with an odd dark piece on it. I took off the dark sport and planted the two plants together. Here they are today in their seventh year. Yes, that's my foot to the right.
The "normal" Gold Standard is on the left and I have started calling the sport on the right "Platinum Status".
Gold Standard and "Platinum Status" - May 29, 2016
Gold Standard and "Platinum Status" - May 29, 2016
"Platinum Status" - May 29, 2016
"Platinum Status" - May 29, 2016
"Platinum Status" - May 29, 2016
"Platinum Status" - May 29, 2016
And the "normal" Gold Standard decided to showoff a few white streaks on the same sprout.
Gold Standard - May 29, 2016
Gold Standard - May 29, 2016
Gold Standard - May 29, 2016
Gold Standard - May 29, 2016
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Here's a question for the group - is this a sport or is this just normal variations in hosta with an irregular margin.

This is supposed to be Gold Standard but on most leaves the dark margin is only on the end of the leaf. The inner half of the leaf has a thin dark margin or none.
Gold Standard Half - May 31, 2016
Gold Standard Half - May 31, 2016
Gold Standard Half - May 31, 2016
Gold Standard Half - May 31, 2016
Gold Standard Half - May 31, 2016
Gold Standard Half - May 31, 2016
Gold Standard Half - May 31, 2016
Gold Standard Half - May 31, 2016
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Here is "Aurora's Brother" this season.
"Aurora's Brother" - May 24, 2017
"Aurora's Brother" - May 24, 2017
"Aurora's Brother" - May 24, 2017
"Aurora's Brother" - May 24, 2017
You can usually find a bit of a "watermark" or "glow" on all the leaves.
"Aurora's Brother" - May 24, 2017
"Aurora's Brother" - May 24, 2017
"Aurora's Brother" - May 24, 2017
"Aurora's Brother" - May 24, 2017
"Aurora's Brother" - May 24, 2017
"Aurora's Brother" - May 24, 2017
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Another curiosity this season with this plant ("Aurora's Brother") is that it's putting dark streaks in the middle of the leaf. I see this once in a while but it's got 4 of them.
"Aurora's Brother" - June 25, 2017
"Aurora's Brother" - June 25, 2017
Here is a photo of 2.
"Aurora's Brother" - June 25, 2017
"Aurora's Brother" - June 25, 2017
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I am putting a piece of "Aurora's Brother" into my new front garden and was setting it in place today. It had started sprouting new growth after it got moved and got more sun. Here you can see the two tone leaves that will reverse.
"Aurora's Brother" - August 9, 2017
"Aurora's Brother" - August 9, 2017
"Aurora's Brother" - August 9, 2017
"Aurora's Brother" - August 9, 2017
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I have shown this plant in other seasons. That's June top/left, normal Gold Standard above, Devil's Advocate top/right.
Not many "status" leaves this season.
"Platinum Status" - August 27, 2017
"Platinum Status" - August 27, 2017
"Platinum Status" - August 27, 2017
"Platinum Status" - August 27, 2017
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Here is Aurora's Brother starting to show-off its colors.
Since this one is doing so well here, I starting thinking about putting the little piece I have of Aurora's Glow in the same garden.

That's pycnophylla on the left (I know it's wrong in a "Name Theme" garden but I have had it in a pot for years and wanted to let it out). Patrica the Stripper is in the bottom left corner. One of my sports Gold Standard sports Stephanie in Moonlight is in the bottom right corner. Amalia is on the right edge. Just under the top right corner of Aurora's Brother is another one of my sports - this is a white centered sport of Striptease I named Georgiana. Along the top edge is Don Quixote. There are also a couple of small green seedlings of mine - clausa var. normalis 'Jilin' X Dostoyevsky (red flowered plant from Jeff Moore).
Aurora's Brother - May 18, 2018
Aurora's Brother - May 18, 2018
Aurora's Brother - May 18, 2018
Aurora's Brother - May 18, 2018
Aurora's Brother - May 18, 2018
Aurora's Brother - May 18, 2018
Aurora's Brother - May 18, 2018
Aurora's Brother - May 18, 2018
Aurora's Brother - May 18, 2018
Aurora's Brother - May 18, 2018
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