Re: hosta Gabriel

I understand what you are saying but a discussion may
bring to light things that people want. Is the hosta
society of and for the people. The only function of
greater value is naming, everything else is choice,
custom, etc, nothing except naming should be sacred. 
And maybe the local societies is the place for new
ideas that evolve into the whole.
If no one takes up the question then everyone is
content?

--- Glen Williams <gw1944@vermontel.net> wrote:

> >Glen, I have somewhat the same feeling, but I don't
> >have any suggestions. BIG AND I don't want to start
> >any mud slinging, so what do you want to see
> changed.
> >Maybe an open discussion about policies and
> activities
> >would move the organization in a positive
> direction.
> >I'll say again that I will not engage in any mud
> >slinging and mud can be found in any organization
> but
> >slinging will not cause a positive change.
> 
> Actually Butch I have found the perfect vehicle for
> change and it is
> inevitable too.. The AHS has done remarkable things
> over the years and I
> don't think there is any need to criticize them or
> their efforts. Good
> people doing good work. BUT ALL INSTITUTIONS get
> tired and tend to
> replicate themselves. Therefore the burst of energy
> from certain hosta
> societies helps to light a fire and find new
> directions for all of us. My
> own favorite outrageous movement is First Look. They
> are changing how we
> look at hostas. How we evaluate hostas  and even
> provide the impetus for
> mom and pop hybridizers to try their hand. Whether
> or not we acknowledge
> it, there is a massive war about new hosta
> introductions whether they be
> one of a million sports waiting in the wings or a
> million tcs of 50
> different plants, or   hostas being introduced by
> kitchen table/window sill
> hungry hybridizers that are doing the science and
> the dream and not relying
> on sport fishing. Wal*Mart is becoming a serious
> role model for giant TC
> labs. Numbers, numbers, a half a penny here and
> there...The prices are
> continually dropping and people are less able to
> compete on the Wal*MArt
> scale. I have absolute faith in a dozen people I
> know to change the face of
> hostadom whether we like it or not. MAybe we have to
> get small again and
> find new roots. In any event there is energy in the
> individual garden and
> everything is changing. Evolution will always have
> the last laugh.
> 
> Sorry, knew I should have had that glass of wine.
> glen
> 
> "Do all you can with what you have in the time you
> have in the place you
> are."-Nksoi Johnson              "Equatorial pygmies
> know your opinions."
> 
> 
> Glen Williams
> 20 Dewey St.
> Springfield , Vermont
> 05156
> Tel: 802-885-2839 
> 
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