Summer Joy question
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- Subject: Summer Joy question
- From: B* M*
- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 12:00:41 -0500
> Hi Jim,
> I do not want to accuse any retailers of trying to perpetrate a hoax
> in this matter. My first plant of this came directly from Klehm. I
purchased
> it from Maryann at the Indianapolis Convention where she sold them at
> Klehm's vending table for $75. Other plants were purchased there by people
I
> know, including the one in picture #2, and these have subsequently turned
> out to be 'Great Expectations'. The real 'Summer Joy' as described and
> registered does not match very closely the description of GE. Every garden
I
> visited that had a plant labeled SJ had GE in that spot. As Van Wade's
> 'Great American Expectations' and Kevin Walek's 'Dream Weaver' show, there
> is nothing wrong with naming a sport or form of GE and introducing it as a
> new cultivar. SJ is supposed to be a different plant (white-centered sport
> of 'Blue Splendor') that does not resemble GE. If anyone has seen the real
> one I would like to purchase one. If Klehm is aware of the mix-up, I agree
> that they should say something, and after all this time they should be
aware
> of it.
>
> > Hi Bill,
> >
> > Thank you for the concern.
> > The plant, H. 'Summer Joy', I have and am offering on the Hosta Library
> > auction came directly (I picked it up there myself) from the Klehm
Nursery
> > located in S. Barrington, IL, where the registered plant originally came
> > from. Roy Klehm also gave the Dubuque Arboretum a H. 'Summer Joy' 2
years
> > ago, sent from his late location in Champaign, IL. They look the same.
> You/we
> > can have questions as to its correctness but I have to believe the
> > originator. Klehm Nursery will have to be the one to correct the
> > problem, if there, is in a fact, a problem. :-)
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Jim Schwarz (zone 4)
>
>
>
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