Re: Re: I.D.problems

Dear Laurie

I quite agree with you. I was very surprised, when visiting some of the
smaller convention garden at Fresno, to see blatantly mislabelled stock. I
did tell one owner and her reply was " well that's what it was sold to me
as". At another garden that had a lot of potted irises for sale, I counted
more than 8 blatant errors that I recognised at a glance, and I didn't even
know the names of half the others. eg "Holy Night" being a white iris.
Surely the name would lead one to expect a dark coloured iris.

I have bought wrongly named irises, but anything that doesn't seem to match
up, gets checked.


Colleen Modra
Impressive Irises

PO Box 169
Charleston  SA 5244

sales@impressiveirises.com.au
www.impressiveirises.com.au


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "laurief" <laurief@paulbunyan.net>
To: <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2004 10:46 AM
Subject: [iris] Re: I.D.problems


> > How many iris growers even OWN the R & I's?
>
> This is a particular peeve of mine.  It makes me crazy when I see a
> commercial seller listing totally incorrect descriptions on their
> websites for iris cultivars they offer for sale. I'm talking about an
> iris registered as yellow being sold on a commercial site *with photo* as
> purple!  ACK!  I found several such glaring mistakes on a *single page*
> of one small iris nursery's website and emailed them with corrections.  I
> even offered to send them photos of the *real* cultivars they had named
> for sale, but they never responded.  I haven't been back to their site to
> see if they bothered to make the corrections or remove the misidentified
> irises from their listings.
>
> I strongly believe that anyone who sells irises has an obligation to
> purchase a full set of CLs and R & Is and USE THEM to verify their stock
> prior to sales.  I can understand the average gardener not wishing to
> invest in the full set of registration info, but there is no excuse good
> enough, in my opinion, to justify a commercial seller's neglect to do so.
>  Heck, for a measly $10, they could have access to the online
> registration databases that would probably contain the vast majority of
> their stock, anyway!
>
> It's one thing to have a seller accidentally ship a mislabeled iris.
> It's quite another to have a seller negligently misrepresent a named
> cultivar in their sales listing!
>
> Rant over,
>
> Laurie
>
>
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