Re: Cult:Plant Quality
Here is more fuel to the fire. We have been contacted by several different
retailers that buy in large quantities. A few have said "we will buy your
reject seedlings (for a discounted price) just lump them into color classes.
I know that this is a common practice amongst wholesalers. So that POL you
have or that Babbling Brook or whatever named cultivar you bought could very
well be a seedling that was headed for the compost heap. This would make
IDing a "mis-named" iris impossible.
Mike
Porterville, CA USA
USDA zone 8
----- Original Message -----
From: <wmoores@watervalley.net>
To: <iris-talk@egroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 5:53 AM
Subject: Re: [iris-talk]Cult:Plant Quality
>
> >
> > The scenario that works for me goes something like this. The mass
> > grower has been told or assumes people buy irises by color and they
> > lump all white/whatever irises together in the fields. The
> > distributor says, "We need a name on this." The grower takes a stroll
> > thru a Schreiner's/Cooley's catalog, or asks grandma who knows
> > everything about irises, causes she grows dozens.
> >
>
> >
> > Betty in Bowling Green KY (USA) where misnamed irises from iris
> > growers is rare.
>
> The quality of these plants sold under the label B H & G is on a
> par with Schreiner, Cooley, Keppel, Black, etc., at least here. If
> whoever is supplying these rhizomes is growing them that well,
> why can't they get their act together on proper identification and
> labeling?
>
> Locally, in our garden shops we find the same quality rhizomes
> sold by Van Zyverden. I have found these to be correctly named.
>
> Other stuff sold under the name B H & G, like roses, is
> incorrect too. I would not buy anything from Wal*Mart or B H & G
> unless it is blooming and is true.
>
> Walter Moores
> Enid Lake, MS 7/8 USA (thinking about 'deep sixing' and 'kiss
> my grits' and advising that if you are ever in Oxford, MS (Ole
> Miss), stop at the Corner Grocery Restaurant and get their grits
> and lobster. This is not a 'plate lunch' either, but you can get
> sweet tea with it.)
>
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