Sporting Stuart Tindale addressed an email enquiry we had a few months ago about a gerbera flower that had bloomed ½ white and ½ pink. While this is unusual, it is a quite natural mutative phenomenon called “sporting” which can happen in all flowering plants. Often some petals will be striped, while others have full colour. Stuart showed a yellow gerbera he has called Xanthic which often displays red stripes in petals or sometimes one or two red petals. Winterising “Winterisi