ENSURING THE FUTURE OF OUR PLANTS
James Waddick (Sat, 25 Jan 2014 17:22:06 PST)

On Jan 25, 2014, at 3:23 PM, Peter Taggart <petersirises@gmail.com> wrote:

I have been asked to provide rarities on various occasions. If, as so
frequently happens from certain parts of the world, the person requesting
plants from me tries to pick and chose the rarest items with the phrase
"I'll take (x, y, z)" without any "May I have", "please", "thank you", and
a complete failure to answer any questions I might ask, - I send such
people little or nothing.

Dear Peter,

I do think that sharing is the best means for conserving rare plants, but agree with your comments above. If I do not get decent civility, I ignore blatant greed.

And there are examples of commercial growers wanting something rare because they have already pre sold the item at a high price to ones of their customers.

I could go on about the lack of propagating, distributing and conserving plants in cultivation. Best Jim W.

James Waddick
8871 NW Brostrom Rd
Kansas City, MO 64152-2711
USA
Phone 816-746-1949