Re: Mini/small blues
Chick wrote:
>
> 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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> message text UNSUBSCRIBE HOSTA-OPENIn the mid eighties, I bought my first (and only) Holland TC plants. Much
of it was not anything like I thought I was getting. It took me several
years to sort and throw out the material that was not true. Never again!
Ran
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