This is a public-interest archive. Personal data is pseudonymized and retained under GDPR Article 89.

Why the preference for hybrid teas?

I guarantee you people you have never grown roses will opt for HT stems
over others any day.  Part of its cultural, I believe, but there may be
some other innate aesthetics going on here.

It's kinda like "Gentlemen prefer blondes" or "A diamond is a girl's
best friend."  Even though these stereotypes don't fit everyone, they
weren't created for nuttin', and they probably hold true for a
significant number of the population.  What matters in *your* yard is
growing what you like and can take care of, and not beating yourself for
lusting in your heart after another's hybrid tea, or feeling the need to
convert the world away from them other than through not hiding them
under a bushel (eg plant where others can see or perhaps give as flowers
to others).  Past that, the preference is out of your hands are
certainly not a *bad thing* given that HT's CAN be grown organically
(with a bit more trouble) than growing them chemically.  That's a whole
nother issue you'd have to work on converting folks to.
-- 
Amy Moseley Rupp (amyr@austx.tandem.com)  Austin, TX, USDA z8b, Sunset z30
Amy Moseley (amy@ece.utexas.edu) Graduate Student in Software Engineering
Other Mailing lists | Author Index | Date Index | Subject Index | Thread Index