Re: Re: AIS: question convention plant

Lobergs wrote:

>    Linda, your thought isn't off base, it's right on target.  Hindsight is
>very applicable here, I don't think a single person in our region had a full
>vision of the monumental tasks waiting us to distribute the irises.   There
>surely is more than one method to dealing with the distribution of the
>irises, but with each idea, there are lots of factors affecting the results.
>I have some observations, and they're just my opinions.
>
>  
>
Just to point a number on Kitty's comments. The region hosted 5,000 
clumps of guest iris for 2 years for The Fresno 2004 convention.

MM

>1.   I do not agree to having an open-ended policy to do whatever the
>hybridizer wants in returning irises.   There is a HUGE expense connected
>with this.   We made a mistake of encouraging so many guest iris, and I
>believe we should have set limits to the number of varieties accepted from
>each hybridizer.   Other conventions are doing this, they are wise.   Some,
>including our largest contributing hybridizer wants everything returned
>except 1 rhizome per variety... that is a huge shipping cost!    He/they/she
>get a tremendous amount of publicity, they send us 3 or 6 of a particular
>variety, and they get a return of perhaps 20 or more rhizomes.   In a
>business sense, that's a dandy production return on the initial investment,
>and not having to share or bear any growing cost or return postage costs of
>the clump after 2 years of growth.
>     I can understand that perhaps the newest introductions... 1, 2 or
>perhaps 3 years old, should or could be returned by request, but returning
>the 4, 5, 6 year irises, which have the largest quantities, is an expense a
>region should NOT have to bear.   I'm really strong in my opinion on this.
>There are many hybridizers who understand the work the guest gardens do and
>the region does to host a convention, and many hybridizers were so generous
>to allow most of their rhizomes to STAY within the region.   I just believe
>the other hybridizers/commercial gardens should realize the burden they
>place on the hosting group when they say they want all of their rhizomes
>back.    I think the alternative would be to state that any rhizomes older
>than 2 or 3 years, if requested to be returned, have the return postage paid
>for by the hybridizer.   This would encourage the hybridizer to think twice
>about the burden of the postage cost and hours of labor... any maybe they
>would instead say, destroy those rhizomes, if they don't want them going
>anywhere.
>
>2.   I'm sure we've lost track of the hours put in by volunteers from
>societies all over our region working with our irises.   We've chosen to
>make our irises available to our societies and team with them so that
>membership throughout our region derives a benefit.  If a more standard and
>concise policy pertaining to just the newest varieties were followed, hours
>upon hours of volunteer time could be saved; hours saved for the gardens
>with a simpler set of digging instructions, hours and costs saved in
>transporting truckloads of irises, hours saved in trimming and labeling
>older varieties which aren't of the highest interest to buyers, hours saved
>in sorting and handling irises multiple times.
>
>Kitty Loberg
>Volunteer spending many days with committee to sort/label/trim
>   convention iris 4 hours from my home.
>2004 Convention Treasurer
>Reg14 Past RVP
>Reg14 Treasurer and Webmaster
>AIS, TBIS, SIS, SJI
>
>
>  
>
>>Thanks all - a <lot> of work for sure.  A wonder there isn't a rule that
>>all plants are to be destroyed after convention.
>>
>>--
>>Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
>>East Tennessee Iris Society <http://www.korrnet.org/etis>
>>    
>>
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