South African heaths
Lee Poulsen (Thu, 25 Aug 2005 12:13:53 PDT)

Maybe Jim, what you describe is currently happening amongst Clivia
growers. Over on the Clivia list it seems that almost everyone is
trying out all sorts of crosses, purchasing seeds or plants of
particularly desirable varieties that others have developed in order to
introduce those genes into their breeding programs, and many seem to be
selling seeds of interesting crosses they have made to yet others who
are also interested in finding out what might be produced. And what
people are breeding for is almost as diverse as the number of
nationalities that are heavily involved in doing all this amateur
breeding. (And sometimes the prices involved begin to remind me of the
Tulipmania of old.) It is almost bewildering to behold.

--Lee Poulsen
Pasadena area, California, USDA Zone 10a

On Aug 25, 2005, at 10:55 AM, Jim McKenney wrote: