Re: UNREGISTERED SIBERIANS
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- Subject: Re: [sibrob] UNREGISTERED SIBERIANS
- From: L* K*
- Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 08:54:55 -0700
Hello Howard,
Perhaps you can comment on what you think of unregistered introductions.
Anyone else just jump in.
I have listed two plants for sale this year that are not registered. Both
are species selections that I feel are good enough or have qualities that
make them desirable garden plants. They are cloned selections, nature has
done the hybridizing and I have made the selection. Both have been grown
down to zone 2 and under widely different soil types and climates. I have
been growing them for more than 5 years and they were weeded out from 100s
of other seedlings.
My thinking is that they are not worth the trouble to register since they
will only be available on a limited basis, and they are only species
selections. If they were crosses that I had made between hybrids and thought
them good enough, I would register them.
I have put a name to both, one is a tall setosa and the other is a Siberian.
I had many requests to sell them and a lot of people really liked them,
although I often wondered if that was due to whether they really thought the
plants were that good or just because it would be something a little unique
for their garden.
Hopefully I will have more time to make more crosses this year and get
something that will put me on the way to registering something that is
really worth registering.
I don't believe in registering everything that comes along, it would just
clog up the registry. I hear that the Hosta registry is very picky that the
plant must actually be something new and different - you have to prove it.
The latest Hemerocallis registry came out, people are registering 50+
Hemerocallis at a time. NO ONE can tell me that they can come up with that
many unique plants to register in one year - RIDICULOUS!
I also think that a plant should be trialed before making the decision to
register. I have noticed that more recent registered introductions of modern
day Siberians appear to be weak growers or poor bloomers. A common complaint
from my customers has been that some of these so called fancy modern day
Siberians, don't bloom in colder zones.
I hate to see a plant that was once highly regarded for its toughness and
propensity to perform lose its reputation.
Leroy Kriese, Ambrosia Gardens
http://www.silk.net/personal/ambrosia/index.htm
Zone 5, Vernon, BC Canada
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