Jane--What's the "white list"? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jane McGary" <janemcgary@earthlink.net> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 6:30 PM Subject: [pbs] No surplus sale this year > Hello all, > > Having received a couple of inquiries in the past few days, I thought > I would announce that I won't be holding a surplus bulb sale this > year. I'm working long hours and also trying to get my property in > shape to put on the market, and I just don't have time. > > I'm certainly not going to give up growing bulbs, but the > distribution aspect of it will switch next year to the BX and NARGS > seed exchange, and after a year or two much of my collection will be > available from a small Oregon nursery with which I'm trying to share > everything of which I have more than three bulbs. > > Thanks to all of you who have bought bulbs in the past -- I hope they > have brought you a lot of interest and pleasure, and I love hearing > that they've done well in far-away gardens. This is the best way to > avoid being trapped by the "white list": sharing whatever we have > acquired in the past and making sure it is firmly in cultivation in > our well-guarded country. > > Jane McGary > Northwestern Oregon, USA > current PBS president > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/