I've just found a downside to having so many!
Tiddisolo Wales UK
8 years ago
Out watering early this morning, temperatures forecast to be in the high 70's. For us that is a heatwave.
Anyway I digress. As I'm moving along I spot what looks like a sport on a big gold plant.
Wow! exciting, which one are you. Turns out it's Moon Split which has sported or is it reverted.
So out of the pot it comes, roots washed and before it knows whats hit it, divided and repotted.
So 4 big golds and a single division plus a very small shoot of Moonsplit.
Ignore the mess. It's as it happened.
I've traced it's lineage.
Moon Split a sport of Velvet Moon a sport of Abiqua Moonbeam a sport of August Moon.
August Moon was found in a couple of places around the same time.
Listed as a Golden Sieboldiana type, is that what it is or should I label it August Moon?
Perhaps I should call it Sneaky Moon as it did it when I wasn't looking!
Dave
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