Daily Hosta #1 - 'Gemini Moon' - Add your pics

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Daily Hosta #1 - 'Gemini Moon' - Add your pics

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This is for Thursday, Oct. 27

Name: H. 'Gemini Moon'

Description: wide, gold margins, green leaf centres. Leaves have good substance for slug resistance.
Size: Medium
Origin: sport of H. Abiqua Moonbeam
Flowers: pale lavender in August
Added to garden: Spring 2008

This has been a very good grower for me and when the Ontario Hosta Society visited my garden in June 2010, it was much talked about. In 2011, I divided it a bit and also removed two small plants which were growing at the base of it. I'm watching them. So far, they seem like a small GM. Not likely to be seedlings since they have a margin. Besides, I didn't have the plant long enough for it to have seeded itself.

Registry - not registered as of Nov. 2012
MyHostas - http://www.myhostas.be/db/hostas/Gemini+Moon
Hosta Library - http://www.hostalibrary.org/g/geminimoon.html
'Gemini Moon'  - July 18
'Gemini Moon' - July 18
'Gemini Moon'  - a closer view of the bloom also July 18
'Gemini Moon' - a closer view of the bloom also July 18
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Doing well this year, but not quite as large as before I divided it in 2011.
'Gemini Moon', July 14, 2012
'Gemini Moon', July 14, 2012
One leaf - June 19
One leaf - June 19
Another 'Gemini Moon' leaf, June 19
Another 'Gemini Moon' leaf, June 19
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2014 picture. Another which is fairly mature. It has regained everything that was divided from it in 2011 and then some. I like the colour of the 'Tiramisu' heuchera which is just below it.
Gemini_Moon-2014-140727-1s.jpg
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2015 - July 3. Doing well. I like this one next to 'Touch of Class' as the colours are nearly reversed. And the Heuchera 'Tiramisu' highlights the chartreuse of the leaves.
Gemini_Moon-150703-2s.jpg
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2016 update - July 23.
Gemini_Moon-2016-0723s.jpg
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2017 update. July 27. Not much change in this one.
Gemini_Moon-2017-0727s.jpg
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