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You may have heard about the Hosta Wheels A Turnin'??Right??
This is a graphic used to describe and classify sports that have
developed/ evolved/ resulted from a common parent...they often come in
groups...groups of clones that are related. Now they even come in
colors, too.
The Wheels Committee has integrated a color wheel design from Bill
Meyer, Wheel Committee Member in NJ into their work of compiling hosta
sports. This is a visual aid tool to use in the garden to accurately
identify colors which exist on hosta leaves. By comparing the 24 colors
on the color chart to the actual colors found on the variegated or
monocolored forms of hostas, the colors can be described in a standard
way using code numbers to identify the colors, not words which may be
too ambiguous or too general.
The Wheels Committee asks the cooperation of Inquiring Minds in the
Hosta World to use the color chart provided in the attachment to this
post, along with the instructions. Print out the color wheel, laminate
it for use, experiment with it this summer, make color comparisons to
known sports in your garden.Take notes, put down the codes which
correspond to the color descriptions of your sports and prepare a post
or letter with this data to any member of the Wheels Committee. This
data will be passed on to a Member who is compiling the data on hosta
color, begnning first with colors of sports, then with other
characterisitics.
By your participation you will be learning more about hostas, their
colors, sports, and their relationships to sister and brother sports,
father and mother sports, uncle and aunt sports, cousins by the dozens
sports. You get the idea! It's fun and educational. So remember to keep
the color wheel and instructions. Thanks for your help. BTW, we hope to
have accurate, standard laminated color wheels for sale at cost at a
later date. Stay tuned or be in touch with your favorite Wheels
Committee member. If this is all new to you, then seek out a copy of the
Hosta Wheels Document and learn more about the phenomena of Hosta
sports.
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Wheel Committee Members
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This site will contain the hosta wheel diagrams of Jim Hawes.
Hawes...coordination of policy, planning, technical input, physiology
Summers...advise in policy, sports input and verification
Meyer...color technology, wheel improvement, sports input
Parsons...sports input and verification
Nelson...communications,computer usage, web page development
Littleton...communications, printing??
Lesch...data base compilation, by progenitors and sports, sports input
Kee...sports confirmation and input from Tundraland
Pether ...England/European source of sports info
Tom Micheletti...sports confirmation and hosta wheel diagrams
Nash...trouble shootin' "loose cannon extraordinaire"...(that's French
for Many Portfolios)
We are seeking input from hosta people the world over.
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