Re: CULT: Cyber trial gardens

No one I know can afford to buy every new introduction let alone even all the AM winners. And every area of the country has losses when it comes to plants. But the fact that a plant dies in my garden is going to have little meaning to someone outside of my area. If measures are to be meaningful across the country then they must be measures that can indicate changing performance across climate zones. If one uses only living and dying as a parameter than there is no information presented that can be extrapolated from my garden to your garden. In other words if you use that type of information you can only predict success based on your own data and indeed you would have to try anything yourself before knowing whether it would succeed. In that scenario yes you would have to grow everything yourself. What I am suggesting is that in order not to have to try everything yourself and be able to use information from all across the country you need measures that could reflect changes in
 performance along a cline. 


Autmirislvr@aol.com wrote:In a message dated 9/5/2005 8:05:23 A.M. Central Standard Time, 
rpries@sbcglobal.net writes:

<height, flowers size, purple based foliage, etc. the survey is of value only to 
those who live in the Death Zone.>>
Bob, 

With all due respect I appreciate and applaud the positive approach! I 
truly do. But if an iris won't live for me (my main concern) it really isn't 
going to matter much what type of branching and bud count it WOULD have 
presented! 

If I'm not mistaken, this whole discussion came from people wanting to know 
the 'gardenability' of irises. The lack of 'growability' of many warm area 
introductions (now at $50.00 a pop) has been a problem from those of us in the 
continental center of North America. Perhaps in some climatic conditions 
more than others. 

This has been the 'elephant' in the middle of the room that everyone wants 
to ignore. Except those of us that have to deal with it! 

If I'm understanding your approach to the situation we would buy all the new 
introductions each year (what the wallet would allow) and only report on 
those that LIVE? How would we determine what would NOT grow in our area? And 
how to best avoid wasted money and energy? 

Count me frustrated! Maybe I'm missing a link here, but seems like a lot of 
work involved not to produce the information many of us need. 




Betty W. in South-central KY Zone 6
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