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Why no variegation?

Hello everyone.

I have four Filipendula ulmaria 'Variegata' plants growing
throughout my garden.  Three of them are beautifully variegated.
They look as though someone spilt a can of yellow paint on
their dark green leaves. I'd estimate 80% of the leaves are
variegated in this manner on these 3 plants.  The fourth plant
has very little variegation on it, maybe 10% of its leaves
are variegated. 

Like many perennials in cold climates, each autumn all of this
perennial's foliage dies away, and the plant comes up from the
roots the next spring giving it a completely new set of stems
and leaves.

My question is this:  will this one plant with little variegation
continue to be so in future years?  Or, is it possible that next
year this one plant will be the only one with heavy variegation
and my other three plants may have very little variegation?

I'm attempting to start several more of these plants from cuttings.
If successful I was thinking of replacing this poorly variegated
plant with one of the cuttings, but I began to wonder if maybe 
this plant could look heavily variegated next year.

Glen in Regina, SK, zone 3,
Canadian prairies, frigid winters, dry windy summers
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