Re: Plants magazine

In a message dated 12/23/02 8:02:32 PM Eastern Standard Time, ECPep@aol.com 
writes:


> 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.

===>I do understand why marketing theory prevents introduction of very new 
plants, Claire, but why do all the markets have to ignore us plant 
collectors?  

  Is this a fat magazine, how many pages - a > 
> guess would do?  


===>I don't have one handy. My recollection is that the size of Plants 
magazine is about the same as Reader's Digest, and about 32 (perhaps 48) 
pages. It may have changed since then. Some of the color reproduction is a 
little off, some misregistered; maybe they've improved that since I last saw 
it a couple years ago. But it was still chock full of lots of new plants, 
many quite exciting.  There's really nothing else like it.

 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. 


===>Yes, the RHS mag is full of local stuff on shows and tours, but still has 
a couple of quite interesting articles in each issue. Sometimes the AHS 
magazine gets almost as good.

 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.


===>Yes, we need a magazine for the gardener's gardener, right?  Some depth, 
unusual plants, some taxonomy, genera surveys, etc.  But no one perceives 
that there is a market for such a thing, apparently.

> 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. 


===>My deepest sympathies. It wasn't too long ago that every time I was 
together with the young nieces and nephews, Barney videos played on the VHS 
nonstop. Now they go to the computer and play some violent game.
Bill Lee 

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