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| working in one of my hosta beds i found a hosta with a drop dead gorgeous sport. now i see why someone can get excited over one of these, it's beautiful. now what to do with it...do i just leave it and see if it's still there next year? or do i dig the whole plant and separate the sport out and plant it by itself? (i could baby it along..)
been too hot to work the gardens but the weeds still grew. i'm off to order a couple of minis. andi |
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- Posted by almosthooked none (My Page) on Thu, Jul 26, 12 at 16:57
| Picture would be nice to see. |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Thu, Jul 26, 12 at 17:05
| who is mom.. does she have a bazillion other sports.. why no pic.. if its rare.. and UNIQUE.. you leave it all there.. and cut off all the mom buds.. you can buy her again later ... ken |
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- Posted by moccasinlanding z9A AL (My Page) on Thu, Jul 26, 12 at 20:01
| Andi, you have us waiting on the edge of our seats, wanting to see your sport. It's always exciting when you see a brand new hosta. If you do not have an album at Flickr or Photobucket, you can upload ONE direct to Gardenweb when you post again. |
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| oh crud you guys, now i'm embarrased. beauty is in the eye of the beholder you know. do have photobucket and if i get up enough nerve will take pics. also have a 'zounds' with many multiple varied seedlings under it. 'ain't it all just too much fun' |
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- Posted by hostahillbilly Zone 4 (My Page) on Thu, Jul 26, 12 at 23:05
| Is it a sport or a reversion? Yeah, there's been a recent post here, well written, regarding the question of 'reversion'. Nevertheless, it's the first thing I look at when noticing a 'sport'. The infamous JOTN reverting for just about everyone is well documented here, as is, I believe, 'Green Revolution', my name, teehee. I divided a neat looking sport from a 'Captain Kirk' a few years ago, but it is so similar to at least two other already recognized Hosta cultivars that I don't think it's significant or worthy of naming and registering, though I'd so much like to do so . . . That's a very hard decision to come to, since most all of us want to introduce a new Hosta, but in reality, unless you're a big-a** TC plant, the odds of finding something really new and worthwhile is so slim, DARN! fwiw, hh |
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| ok, here is my 'sport', pretty ya think? now the bad part..mom is a noid (the green with white edge) but all hostas in this bed have been new hostas so maybe i buried the name by it. so we're just another pretty face in the garden, lol. should i dig it up and separate? btw, i read up on sport vs reversion and couldn't make sense of it. leavin it for the big guys. andi
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- Posted by moccasinlanding z9A AL (My Page) on Fri, Jul 27, 12 at 18:10
| Oh my, another green and white margined one!!! Good luck figuring out who's this one's mama! I really like that leaf in the first picture. Very nice. |
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