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Re: sedum

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Duane Campbell" <dcamp@chilitech.net>
To: "Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers

> Would I be correct to suggest that most everyone here would agree that
> Auturm Joy should have disappeared from the big box parking lots two 
> decades
> ago? Along with Purple Palace heuchera.

Please excuse me for replying to my own post. But I threw that last 
paragraph in as an afterthought, but it is something I have been thinking 
about.

Plants like Autumn Joy and Palace Purple were a breakthrough three decades 
ago, and I truly thank whoever introduced them. But it's like disco. Way out 
of date. There are many more interesting sedums and heucheras, and they are 
no more difficult to propogate. I can't believe that the small plant patent 
fee is so prohibitive. Where big box stores do carry better varieties, they 
are commonly no more expensive than their obsolete offspring.

So please explain -- you PR and breeder and wholesale grower types here --  
why are these now old-fashioned plants so dominating the popular market?

D 

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