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Posted by davidrt28 7 (My Page) on Fri, Jul 7, 06 at 0:02
| www.nytimes.com/2006/07/06/garden/06bulbs.html
Arrrrggghhh how tahrsome of the NY Times, reporting on this as if it's a new trend. I know Old House Gardens has been around since at least the late 90s? at least that's when I first heard of them. And people like Ellen Hornig (Seneca Hill) and Tony Avent (Plant Delights) have been propagating vintage and heirloom varieties for years. Futhermore their selection isn't extensive at all...and their prices on something like Hippeastrum X johnsonii - which is frankly becoming a bit common now - is way high. (I bought mine in 1998 in Virginia Beach, at a roadside type nursery...and it has survived all winters since then in the Northern Virginia suburbs with no special protections)
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RE: NY Times article on Heirloom Nursery
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| I think you missed the whole point of the article. It's not that no one else has ever carried these bulbs... it's the telling of the story of the hunt for them. The southernbulbs.com young men aren't just doing this to make a profit, they enjoy the hearing the stories that go along with each discovery they make. |
RE: NY Times article on Heirloom Nursery
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| The story was interesting but I agree with the OP. Old House Gardens is just about synonymous with heirloom bulbs. Its dedicated owner, Scott Kunst, has been hunting old bulbs and their stories for decades. He writes and lectures about this topic and most importantly, in my humble opinion, he verifies the right names and dates for the bulbs he sells. That is mighty rare in the garden catalog business, for plants old or new. It's kind of hard to understand a story about heirloom bulbs without mentioning Scott Kunst and Old House Gardens. |
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