RE: plant breeders
- Subject: RE: plant breeders
- From: M* D*
- Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 08:13:08 -0700
- Importance: Normal
Dear Claire, You have a delightful sense of humor. I had a good belly
laugh over this at the end of a very tiring weekend at our local hardy plant
society fall sale. Thanks for the good cheer. :) Marilyn
Marilyn Dube'
Natural Designs Nursery
Portland, Oregon
-----Original Message-----
I agree with Nancy that sylvestris is a tall gangly plant that has a small
knob of flowers on the top. It takes a lot of space for the few flowers it
produces. It was one of the fad flowers of the past few years. Since it so
tall and the leaves so large, I think men like this plant better than women
do. Men also like those huge white leaved thistles that need to be sawed
down and dahlias that can be seen from a half mile away. It is usually men
growers and breeders that make plants so tall, so full of genes and so
flaming red. Without three centuries of male rose breeders the rest of us
may actually have understood the rose bush.<VBG>
Claire Peplowski
NYS z4
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