Gold Standard sports
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Gold Standard sports
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.
Ed McHugh, Sicklerville NJ
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Well that is certainly unexpected! It will be interesting to watch that one.
Alexa
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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.
Ed McHugh, Sicklerville NJ
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
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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.
Here is a photo from early 2011:
Here is a photo from early 2011:
Ed McHugh, Sicklerville NJ
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
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This one is still here. I think tree root competition is keeping its size down.
Ed McHugh, Sicklerville NJ
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
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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.
Ed McHugh, Sicklerville NJ
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
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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.
Ed McHugh, Sicklerville NJ
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
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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". And the "normal" Gold Standard decided to showoff a few white streaks on the same sprout.
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". And the "normal" Gold Standard decided to showoff a few white streaks on the same sprout.
Ed McHugh, Sicklerville NJ
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
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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.
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.
Ed McHugh, Sicklerville NJ
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
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Here is "Aurora's Brother" this season.
You can usually find a bit of a "watermark" or "glow" on all the leaves.
Ed McHugh, Sicklerville NJ
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
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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.
Here is a photo of 2.
Ed McHugh, Sicklerville NJ
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
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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.
Ed McHugh, Sicklerville NJ
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
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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.
Not many "status" leaves this season.
Ed McHugh, Sicklerville NJ
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
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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).
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).
Ed McHugh, Sicklerville NJ
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.