I thought for a long time before sending this message, but I feel I have
to say something.

I have never seen discussions on the PBS forum degenerate into name
calling, as has happened recently. Using terms like 'bitter, sour,
nasty' etc. is totally unacceptable. It is OK to disagree, but
insulting terms are going far beyond the boundaries of polite
discourse. This particular disagreement should have been done
privately, since it didn't even involve bulbs. I deleted many messages
without reading them, so it may have been even worse than the ones I
opened.

Leo Martin treated us all to a wonderful joke on April Fool's day. I
laughed and laughed, and when some people 'bit' I laughed even more (and
if it had been me, that would have been even better - isn't that the
point of an April Fool's joke?). I still have images of Leo raking up
Worsleya seedlings from his driveway, knocking them down from the power
lines, etc., and it still makes me smile. Thank you Leo!! So, when he
used the term 'gullible' which means trusting, naive, innocent, and even
hopeful and optimistic (and you need plenty of all of those attributes
to grow difficult bulbs), and was also insulted I felt mortally
offended. I apologize to you Leo on behalf of all of us who got great
enjoyment out of your joke. Please, don't hold back next year!

Diana
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