RE: SR - Informal survey a

Carol Warner wrote:

>This is an interesting discussion.  It might be interesting to also hear 
>what people think of the four that were up for the Morgan-Wood Medal.  My 
>ballot is also in to my tabulator but we should emphasize that no one 
>should vote (or not vote) for something because of information they 
>received on the internet.  As you mentioned votes are only cast for what a 
>judge has actually seen growing in several places.

I agree with all of the above --- gee, I only grow one of the four MW 
candidates and I don't think I have even seen the other three. :(
I won't want say which one I grow but I have grown it on two different 
places with plants I purchased from two different growers. The first plant I 
got was from Draycott Gardens in Maryland and the second from  the Abrego's 
in Oregon. It did well for me (actually spectacular) in
both instances. It is a 2-yr. plant this year and has 7 bloomstalks ready to 
burst into bloom. It didn't bloom its first year in either
place but it increased like mad and is very vigorous in the frigid north. (I 
am an apprentice judge so I can't vote this year.)

Question: I have seen it growing in one other garden in Maine and doing well 
and my two gardens. If I was eligible to vote this year, I would definitely 
vote for it even though I am basing its performace on my own two gardens. 
Since I got it from Maryland and also from Oregon, I have to assume that it 
does well in those other climates. Is this what the 'other' judges do?

Ellen Gallagher/ Berlin, NH / Zone 3

(Siberians are coming into bloom - yea! WINDWOOD SERENADE and CHEERY
LYN are outdoing themselves.....)





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