Re: Mini/small blues
Anyone who has much experience with Dutch hostas would have no trouble believing
your tale. Sorry if anyone considers this slanderous, but hostas coming from
Holland are notorious for being mislabled. When I complained to our salesperson
from an importer we were dealing with, he laughed and said, and he was Dutch and I
swear this is true, he said that Dutch growers think American garden centers don't
know the difference, so if they have too much of something, they just relabel it
as something else. I haven't bought a Dutch hosta since. I told him they were
cutting their own throat because sooner or later buyers were going to get tired of
it. That was about 10 years ago and they are still doing it and still selling
millions of hostas here. Low price wins out over quality again.
Chick
www.bridgewoodgardens.com
Rose wrote:
> Glenbo,
>
> Perhaps H. 'Moody Blue' is a sister to H. 'Canadian Blue' which is
> also coming out of Holland. Here's the story. A batch of blue hostas in a
> field in Holland was unlabeled. To make them Saleable, the name CANADIAN
> BLUE was chosen.
> A Nursery nearby, imported some of these new blue hostas, and close
> study & comparison with H. 'Halcyon' has shown they are identical.
> This is a true story, believe it or not.
>
> William Nash Guelph Ontario CA <raffi@sympatico.ca>
>
> <-- original message -->
> At 08:53 AM 6/10/98 -0400, you wrote:
> >On a recent visit to the Trompenburg Arboretum in Rotterdam, Holland, I saw a
> >small blue hosta labelled as 'Moody Blue'. It was similar in size and form to
> >'Blue Ice', perhaps a little bigger.
> >
> >Anyone heard of H.'Moody Blue' before?
> >
> >Glen Pether
> >England
>
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