Toby,
Thank you for comparing me to John Adams. Some days I feel that old too! But really he was a hero to me as he was such a radical before there was such a thing. I even mentioned him in my valedictorian speech in high school! Of course being from MA, he was a treasure there,
Anyway I think you captured the spirit of the clinic very well and I hope everyone went away with the concept that this is NOT brain surgery and there are ways that you can increase your odds of getting pretty things such as the techniques that Polly Bishop used.
As soon as the weather cools I'm going to start rowing out more seedlings in a new bed. These should be ready for next spring's clinic! It will be a bigger group and I'll also have some clumps of the 80 plants from Fernwood plus the seedlings from the last two years in clumps for evaluation.
Kevin