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new ideas

I delight in championing independent nurseries and mail-order sources for plants in my articles. But regularly I get taken to task by those same nurseries saying I shouldn't write about a particular new (not the overhyped new) or unusual plant because then people actually want to buy it, and they haven't had time to get enough stock. So, could I please check in with them about what I'm writing first?

No, I can't. I realize this may lead to some frustration on the part of the reader, but I am always happy to help readers on their plant hunts (and more than once, I have published my "ways to find a plant you can't find"). I prefer the editorial freedom of writing about what's exciting, without the burden of getting the OK from businesses.

The same old ideas everywhere — magazines and writers do pass around ideas. We can see it because we are scanning or reading every garden magazine out there, but there are few readers who subscribe to them all. So why not try and provide them with information in a magazine they do read?

Marty Wingate

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