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[GWL]: Is it really "Best?"

Anyone else dealing with this issue?

My major client is constantly pushing me to write about the "best" 
tomato, the "best" rose, the "best" daylily, etc for our region. 
Problem is, we have so darn many microclimates in Southern California 
and there is so much variation in how people garden that there is no 
way that any one variety of anything can be "best."   Everytime this 
issue comes up, I ask the client what criteria he wants me to use and 
he has no answer.   I understand that his goal is to sell magazines, 
but my goal is to put out accurate information.  So, I usually 
attempt to respond to his request by suggesting I write about "good 
choices" for our region -- after all, who is to say what is "best?"

Now I see that Horticulture has published the "Best" new vegetables 
and flowers for 2002 and it makes me wonder.  How do they determine 
what is best for an entire continent?  What are the criteria they 
used?  Did the author(s) (the website had no by-line -- did anyone on 
our list write it?) test these plants him/herself before writing the 
article?

Nan
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Nan Sterman			PlantSoup

205 Cole Ranch Road
Olivenhain, CA 92024		760.634.2902 (voice)
NSterman@PlantSoup.Com		760.634.2957 (fax)

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