Re: Interesting Hosta Story
- Subject: Re: Interesting Hosta Story
- From: B* M*
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 11:10:17 -0400
Hi Jim,
In the case below:
>The two plants are equally beautiful although they are
> "tissue transfers" of each other. At about this time, I also found a
> sport of Parky's Prize, identical to Mark's in my garden. I planted
> this one also next to Parky's Prize and Sweet Home Chicago..
Was Mark tissue-culturing Parky's Prize, or B. Parky's Gold? If the
latter, it wouldn't be a tissue transfer, but a new sport, right?
............Bill
> Sports,
>
> It seems that just about every hosta has an interesting story connected
> with it. Birchwood Parky's Gold and its sport progeny has such a story.
>
> One summer about 8 years ago, I found a green streak in the center of
> one leaf of
> Birchwod Parky's Gold. In the fall I took a bud cutting of the axillary
> bud to capture the bud sport if possible. The next year a new division
> appeared and developed perhaps 8 leaves all of which were identical.
> All leaves showed a chartreuse border and a dark green center. The
> following year there were four divisions, all uniform. It appeared to be
> stable. I potted the plant and took it to Alex as a guest plant in his
> garden for the Convention garden tour of 1995, I believe. It was seen by
> several people who commented favorably on it. Alex named it Parky's
> Pride and I registered it by the name I thought I heard Alex
> use...Parky's Prize.
>
> Some years later, Mark Zilis found in his lab, a reversed form with a
> chartreuse center and a dark green border. He named it Sweet Home
> Chicago. I got a small liner from Jim Swartz and planted it next to
> Parky's Prize. The two plants are equally beautiful although they are
> "tissue transfers" of each other. At about this time, I also found a
> sport of Parky's Prize, identical to Mark's in my garden. I planted
> this one also next to Parky's Prize and Sweet Home Chicago.. Then just
> this spring, another sport occurred in the garden.. Parky's Prize
> produced a clump of six streaked divisions. Four appear to be
> chartreuse and white and two appear to be a brighter yellow and white in
> color. These plants need more time to determine if the yellow color is
> truly different from the chartreuse ground color. If so, then there will
> someday be a pure yellow color at six oclock on the Birchwood Parky's
> Gold Wheel of Sports.
>
> Isn't this fun?
>
> Jim
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