Loyalist Sport
So I was at a nursery yesterday, looking for the Wheee I'd passed up over a week ago. Sure enough it was gone but I found this in a batch of Loyalists. Had to nab it, of course.
It's all one division so likely next year the whole plant will be solid green. Did a search and Loyalist doesn't have a solid green sport. And it's not reverting back to its parent because its parent is Patriot ~ also variegated. So this will be new. Wooo hooo!
Yes, a bit of a plain Jane but the green is a very lovely dark color plus the substance is excellent.
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9 years agoI once bought a plant looking like yours with single streaks on some green leaves, except the label said 'Sum and Substance'. 2 years later it turned into a stable 'Sum it Up'. So it seems that your plant not necessarily wiil turn green, but could become any of the existing progeny of Loyalist, see the Hosta Library, or something else in its future. It simply did not make up its mind yet what it wants to be in future years, like some young humans.
Here is my example of a streaked immature plant :
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