Re: Conservation/source list

I have communicated with Barry Glick many times in the past 15 years. I am not sure he is part on the problem or part of the sulution. If he has gotton his act together and is no longer purely motivated by self interest (at least that has been my impression), I would be happy to work with his effort. I am sure he would never remember our communications.
 
Some criteria I expect from a system of national collections;
1.They would put no demands on collection holders to send lists so that only one nursery could profit by sales of the plants.
2. The collections would remain private but provide access to study of at least a limited number of researchers. And that the list of collections would be public.

Gene Bush <genebush@otherside.com> wrote:
Hello Robert,
    I do not know the details, but Barry Glick of Sunshine Farms has been working with the national collection concept for many years that I am vaguely aware of. Perhaps the two of you should communicate.
    Gene E. Bush
Munchkin Nursery & Gardens, llc
www.munchkinnursery.com
g*@munchkinnursery.com
Zone 6/5  Southern Indiana
----- Original Message -----
From: r*@sbcglobal.net
 

I am not sure everyone understands the value of the type of source list I have been talking about. I am interested mainly as a tool for conservation. One can use a resource like the European Hardy Plant Finder (HPF) to determine how precarious a cultivars hold is on cultivation. If out of hundreds of gardens a cultivar is offered by only one than it is probably a pretty rare plant. Google will get you to a source for an individual Iris, and it will also show you how many mentions there are of it. But a list like the (HPF) allows you to see which plants are most rare in cultivation. In that way it suggests plants to small nurseries that may be unique and maybe they would acquire and propagate for sale. This discussion arose because of my interest in national collections for study and conservation. It is only an auxillary point that demonstrates my point of what England and Europe have accomplished and how America has been third world in its efforts. I have been throwing these ideas out to plant groups, societies, and institutions for 20 years and have yet to see anything comparable to what the British have done nationally done in the USA even on a small scale.



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