Re: Re: HYB: Trial Gardens - feedback

I guess those who who don't want to know are also the same people who don't go to the doctor when something is hurting because they just don't want to know what's wrong and it will just go away.

Denial of a problem does not make it go away, and for the Iris does not contribute to to the serious advancement of the Iris, it's promotion, or do justice to all the effort put forth into breeding them just to have them die in somene else's garden.  THE LARGER PICTURE.  We don't know if there are Iris that can be bred to survive and grow well in most climates because we have not tired, or made a concerted effort (Yet) to direct them in that direction.  It has been by trial and error only.

Paul Archer



-----Original Message-----
From: Linda Mann <lmann@volfirst.net>
Sent: Sep 2, 2005 4:12 AM
To: iris- talk <iris@hort.net>
Subject: [iris] Re: HYB: Trial Gardens - feedback

El, I've found that some hybridizers are interested in hearing how their
kids have done here and some are not.  I suspect those from climates
very different from my own get very very tired of hearing about all the
failures of their children away from home and just don't want to talk
about it.

<Especially> when their <primary> hybridizing goals are <not>
gardenability.  We all only have so much time and energy for both taking
notes and answering email.

On the other hand, some hybridizers do want to know.  Since I am mostly
interested in gardenability, at least for now, I  try to contact
hybridizers and ask if they want feedback.  If they don't respond to
that question, I assume that means they don't want to know.

Or were too busy to answer at the time and then forgot.  <g>

Lloyd Zurbrigg was always interested in hearing how his kids were doing
away from home, because he was very interested in gardenability.  Other
hybridizers have wanted to know how their kids were doing - I started to
list their names, but am having too much of a senior moment to remember
them all and don't want to leave any out.  Betty Wilkerson, of course.

<I've
                   emailed a few [hybridizers] re the success (and some
failures) of their irises and never got a response back.

                   El, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Z3
                   DIS & MIS Display Garden>

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