Dear Michelle,
the french work by fashion and not passion so everything goes to the side
and is swept away in the tide of the latest fad.
They are not big on heritage!
No garden restorations have ever been done here with french
money.Versailles and Giverny were all done through heavy american
funding.Even then the expertise is just not there as no one is interested!
The plant collections network is a private joke! I don't mean that those
that hold them lack commitment! But we get zero support!!
I am trying to interest people here in rarer galanthus but is is such hard
work!
And I just can't see them keeping cultivars going for over a hundred years
as in Britain.
All the old french roses were refound abroad!
Hydrangea cultivars are the same story.
I have a great friend who works for the town of Nacy which was the
horticultural hub about a hundred years ago.
He is trying to find some of the old Primula sinensis cultivars of Lemoine.
I think that he is dreaming!
Old Gladiolus cultivars are surely the same story.
I have old gardening magazines from the heyday of horticulture here and
they are fantastic!
kind regards,
Mark

legacy

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