I e-mailed Reldon some pictures of my garden and he suggested that I share this photo of my Touch Of Class.
David.
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I think you'd better post some more pics so I can ck them out in the morning.
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Very nice picture. I have high hopes for mine this year.
It is a beautiful plant.
It is a beautiful plant.
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That is stunning.
I am beginning to think the one I got as TOC might not be... the center yellow is much wider on mine than most of the plants I've seen photos of... but then again mine is a tiny baby, so maybe it will straighten out with maturity.
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I am beginning to think the one I got as TOC might not be... the center yellow is much wider on mine than most of the plants I've seen photos of... but then again mine is a tiny baby, so maybe it will straighten out with maturity.
Alexa
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Touch of class is one of my favorite one my wish list! Wow!!! That's just a stunning pic. Thanks for sharing it, and thanks Renaldo, for twisting David's arm..... 
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That is such a beautiful, rich color in your photo. My Touch of Class is also young like Sue's. I took this photo this weekend of TOC unfurling.
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I want to know how you did that?!?nanny_56 wrote:Beautiful pic! This was on my list and yesterday DH took me hosta shopping so picked up Touch of Class, Capt. Kirk, Risky Business and June!! Plus Heuchera Snow Angel!!
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Nice pic of that Touch of Class. Beautiful hosta.
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There's an almost endless number of variations in the June sport category... some named on how yellow or white the center gets late in the season, also varying with the width of the margins.
As far as I know, though, TOC is the only one on the market that is also a tetraploid. I guess we should expect to see several registrations depending on how wide or narrow the margins are on otherwise similar tetraploids. (Ala the difference between sieboldianas like Great Expectations and Thunderbolt...)
So how wide should the margins be on TOC? Since TOC is a Shady Oaks registration, I expect their picture to be the typical. The picture in their catalog shows about the middle 1/3 as yellow. Their description says it "emerges in the spring with intense blue leaves with a gold flame in the leaf center. A green pattern occurs where the gold and blue overlap. The leaves have an incredible thick substance and held more upright than 'June.'"
That matches up pretty well with my garden plant and the dozen young plants I've got in the greenhouse... about 1/3-1/3-1/3 distribution of color - though there is considerable variation even within the same eye, as is seen in the attached photo.
to me, Addiotto's seems the closest "to type" , Suedia's looks to have a wider center, and David's appears to be narrower. Actually, the Shady Oaks picture is somewhere between... narrower than Addiotto's and wider than Davids.
If they all have that thick tetraploid leaf, then we are indeed playing around with "how different is different enough?" to call it a sport of a sport and name it. I think David's approaches that. The very narrow center reminds me of Thunderbolt. On the other hand, Suedia's may be wide enough to justify differentiation from TOC as well.
So, David... If the whole plant keeps that narrow center, I'd be watching it closely. A nice experiment would be to get another TOC and plant them near each other. That's what I did with a sport from Sagae. Growing right next to each other, I could see that the sport was, indeed, different enough in color and texture to register it...
As far as I know, though, TOC is the only one on the market that is also a tetraploid. I guess we should expect to see several registrations depending on how wide or narrow the margins are on otherwise similar tetraploids. (Ala the difference between sieboldianas like Great Expectations and Thunderbolt...)
So how wide should the margins be on TOC? Since TOC is a Shady Oaks registration, I expect their picture to be the typical. The picture in their catalog shows about the middle 1/3 as yellow. Their description says it "emerges in the spring with intense blue leaves with a gold flame in the leaf center. A green pattern occurs where the gold and blue overlap. The leaves have an incredible thick substance and held more upright than 'June.'"
That matches up pretty well with my garden plant and the dozen young plants I've got in the greenhouse... about 1/3-1/3-1/3 distribution of color - though there is considerable variation even within the same eye, as is seen in the attached photo.
to me, Addiotto's seems the closest "to type" , Suedia's looks to have a wider center, and David's appears to be narrower. Actually, the Shady Oaks picture is somewhere between... narrower than Addiotto's and wider than Davids.
If they all have that thick tetraploid leaf, then we are indeed playing around with "how different is different enough?" to call it a sport of a sport and name it. I think David's approaches that. The very narrow center reminds me of Thunderbolt. On the other hand, Suedia's may be wide enough to justify differentiation from TOC as well.
So, David... If the whole plant keeps that narrow center, I'd be watching it closely. A nice experiment would be to get another TOC and plant them near each other. That's what I did with a sport from Sagae. Growing right next to each other, I could see that the sport was, indeed, different enough in color and texture to register it...
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Great pic, David!
I saw this post the other day, and would like to add a few musings of my own.
I got Touch of Class in a Hallson's trade long ago. Mine has the narrower center swath that David's plant exhibits. It's not a sport, it's just more mature. The leaves on mine last year were wider than the registered size, so I assume the registration was premature.
Here's mine from today.....there's 9 eyes there waiting to explode.
I saw this post the other day, and would like to add a few musings of my own.
I got Touch of Class in a Hallson's trade long ago. Mine has the narrower center swath that David's plant exhibits. It's not a sport, it's just more mature. The leaves on mine last year were wider than the registered size, so I assume the registration was premature.
Here's mine from today.....there's 9 eyes there waiting to explode.
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