Re: Plants magazine

In a message dated 12/22/02 3:06:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, Blee811@aol.com 
writes:


> I subscribed to Plants for a while but gave it up because it pictures and 
> shows so very many new plants that I lusted for but despaired of ever 
> finding 
> in American markets.  
> Bill Lee

With the various licensed UK varieties coming on market here, do you think it 
could be better now?  Many of the perennials coming into New York and New 
England are from Canada.  These will be assortments quite different from the 
local nurseries.  I read some nursery-pro magazines from the family business 
(again, not mine), and what is available out there is quite varied.  Local 
nurseries will not take a chance on unknown plants and I guess I cannot fault 
this as they know their market.  Is this a fat magazine, how many pages - a 
guess would do?  I had the RHS for a while but also gave it up as it carried 
a lot of organization news of no interest to American gardeners.   If you 
want the show dates and other travel info, it is all on the website.  We 
could use some new publications here that do not speak down to gardeners. It 
seems they try to find a market somewhere in the middle and that does not 
make for good reading.  Not everyone can subscribe to every journal out there 
and some do not address a gardener, rather a specialist in a specific field.

I can't believe that I can have the computer this week with kids all over the 
place.  It is that PPV on the satellite.  A few hours of quiet!  I have seen 
Scooby-Doo five or six times today.  Any perennial news is welcome!

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4

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