Re: Pet peeve!
- Subject: Re: [sibrob] Pet peeve!
- From: H* P*
- Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 21:26:52 -0700
I have a small commercial garden and am obsessive about having the correct
cultivar name. However I know that 99% of what I sell will not be
identifable next year. When I find a misidentification I put a "for sale
cheap" sign on it and will dig it for the first interested customer. Almost
none who aren't commercial worry at all about the name.
I suspect that 50 to 75% of the customer who buy those unnamed Siberians
would not be able to tell you that what they purchased was a Siberian iris
by next spring. I understand your feelings but the general commercial
gardeners know it doesn't make a difference to their sales.
Harold Peters
Beautiful View Iris Garden
El Dorado Hills, CA USDA zone 9
harold@directcon.net www.beautiful-view-iris.com
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From: <nureyev111@webtv.net>
To: <sibrob@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 1:46 PM
Subject: [sibrob] Pet peeve!
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> I've noticed something lately. At least three different garden centers
> (private ones) I have visited have potted Siberians. Nice big healthy
> clumps too. BUT... no tags. Nobody knows what they are. The one I went
> to today had about two dozen gallon pots of super nice ones with a sign-
> "Irises- $8.50" How do they expect to sell these things? If and when
> they flower I guess. But then you still may not know the exact iris.
> Arrrrgh!
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