Re: OT: plants from Holland
Bill,
This is good to know , thanks for the information . I'll surely
share the results when my irises bloom.
Chris Darlington
Blainville , Quebec
Bill Shear wrote:
>
> My assumptions at
> >the time of purchase were that they had to have a higher standard
> >compared the regular mart irises because they were cultivated and
> >packaged in Holland , very far from the corruption of the packaged iris
> >business in North America.
>
> Ask any American commercial nurseryman their opinion of perennial stocks
> from Holland. They might say that the opposite is the case--much
> mislabelled material comes out of the Land of Wooden Shoes. One problem is
> that plants are grown from the seed of named varieties, then sold labelled
> as that variety.
>
> Bill Shear
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