Re: GWL quotes and rants

**N* S* <s*@earthlink.net>**

Propagating patented plants for resale is illegal under any  
circumsatances. But sharing cuttings and seeds is a
time honored ritual among gardeners. I have toured gardens and green  
houses with many of
the  "big guys"  and trust me - a clip here, a clip there - seeds  
happen to fall in
the palm or the camera bag. It happens.
What's the difference if you give the sample to a friend or give a  
cutting?
Nancy Szerlag

On Jun 12, 2007, at 2:51 PM, Peggy Riccio wrote:

> I consider myself a communicator and sometimes I
> communicate what is new in the industry to the
> gardener. I myself appreciate learning about new
> plants and new tools from other garden writers. I am
> simply communicating what I have heard or tried to
> those who would be interested to assist them in their
> pursuit of gardening. I like the idea of showing and
> telling about new tools.
>
> But I am writing this because you brought up an
> interesting point at the end. When you do receive free
> plants and tools from the wholesalers to try, it seems
> to be ethically correct to donate them to non profits
> if you don't use them. But what if you received a box
> of trial plants from a wholesaler (sneak preview for
> 2008), planted them, they did well, and you wanted to
> take a cutting and give it to a friend?
>
> --- Nancy Szerlag <szerlag@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> For 14 years I've written a weekly gardening column
>> published in both
>> The Detroit News and The Detroit Free Press with a
>> weekly state wide
>> circulation around half a million, give or take,
>> depending which
>> Detroit team is playing in the play offs,
>> semi-finals or finals.
>>  From the onset I  made new tools and products my
>> speciality and my
>> readers love it.  I make it a point to test drive
>> the toys so I know
>> they work. I spend a good percentage of my income
>> from that column
>> traveling to trade shows, garden shows and Garden
>> Writers in search
>> of new stuff.  In the 14 years I have had one
>> complaint about tools
>> and few whines about plants.
>>
>> A couple of years ago I was invited to the Hardy
>> Plant Society for a
>> tool talk - a combination show and tell using the
>> actual tools and
>> power point, and received rave reviews.
>>
>> Many newspapers have strict rules about taking
>> freebees, and in the
>> old days writers were given a budget to travel,  buy
>> new products and
>> assistants to ship back test products. But those
>> days are long gone
>> folks.
>>
>> I don't sell unwanted products, plants or books at
>> garages sales,
>> flea markets or on e-bay,  I donate them to Master
>> Gardener groups
>> and libraries or give them to friends to use and
>> grow for feedback.
>> If I am a product pimp, so be it, I consider it part
>> of the job.
>>
>> Nancy Szerlag
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jun 12, 2007, at 12:23 PM, Cottage Garden wrote:
>>
>>> Hey all, I lurk and rarely post but this time I
>> need to speak up.
>>> In this day and age it is unreasonably to think
>> your posts to an
>>> open list are "private" -- five or ten years ago
>> one might have
>>> thought so (and still been mistaken) but in
>> today's environment
>>> that is just naive, to use Susan's expression.
>>>
>>>   I am sorry I missed the original rant intact
>> with quotes. Maybe
>>> that would explain why folks are upset about it.
>>>
>>>   Anyhoo, let me add that in re the PANTS show
>> hype:
>>>
>>>   As much as I personally detest the "what's hot
>> -- what's not" go  
>>> go sales mentality when it affects garden writing,
>> in all fairness
>>> that particular talk in your rant is being done at
>> the PANTS show
>>> -- where folks actually go specifically to catch
>> up on what's new.
>>> I feel writers should be and need to be well
>> informed, but what
>>> they do with that information is up to them.
>> Whether or not knowing
>>> what's new turns them into "product pimps" is
>> another issue.
>>>
>>>   Ok, I'm done. :)
>>>
>>>
>>> Barbara Martin
>>>   FLOWER GARDENS
>>> http://flowergardens.suite101.com/
>>> Member, Garden Writers Association
>>>
>>>
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Nancy Szerlag
Columnist for Detroit News
szerlag@earthlink.net
Check blog at www.gardeneryardener.blogspot.com

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