Re: CULT: Trashing Irises
- Subject: Re: CULT: Trashing Irises
- From: n*@charter.net
- Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 19:27:06 -0000
--- In iris-talk@y..., majorcanis@a... wrote:
"When I culled my garden after the first year, I had no shortage of
> people who were happy to take them, people who did not have the
money nor motivation to buy the new and latest, but were interested
in growing some iris....an amateur grower might want to encourage
other's interest by sharing some stock."
Like you, Jim, I have fostered a lot of nascent irisarians with gifts
of overstock and discards. However, with failed seedlings, its
another matter and I don't agree that they should be shared. I've
seen too many times those seedlings show back up with names attached
they had no rights to. The big retail chains have gotten a lot of
criticism lately in Iris-Talk for attaching names copped from
commerical lists and sticking them on junked iris purchased from
commercial growers. That doesn't contribute to varietal confusion
any more than Lilly Mae attaching the names of FOGBOUND or BLACK
PHANTOM to some discard of mine. No way! If it's compost, it is
getting the appropriate recycling it needs. There's plenty of good
rhizomes growing in excess that have proper identities and goodly
qualities in both your garden and mine.
Generosity of heart with the *good* stuff makes for happy new iris
addicts.
Neil Mogensen zone 7a about seven miles west of majoranis
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