Some say Brad is a 'bully'. The only bullying I have seen is from the Curt Hanson followers. Imagine one hybridizer is being attacked from many people who have 'power' buttons. It is a personal vendetta against him at this point. It's sad really that such an influential hybridizer has been treated in such a way. Let's remember if it wasn't for the hybridizer there would be no AHS. Not the other way around.
The AHS dictionary against Brad's coined term 'bearded' is a wonderful example of this bullying taking place. I would say there is no such thing as sculpted either as sculpting requires work on a medium. We do no such thing in hybridization..food for thought.
sooby said:was curious on how they were registered and saw that he was describing his "beards" as "appendages" in his registrations. That's an interesting term that I haven't considered before!
That rather makes one wonder what the objection is, then, to calling them cristate, which means (in botany) "bearing any elevated appendage on its surface"! (e.g. reference - Introduction to Structural and Systematic Botany, and Vegetable Physiology by Asa Gray, 1860).
As a hybridizer, the main objection is crested and bearded are not mutually exclusive. The two said forms do not just go back and forth with looks in f1,f2,etc. You can combine the two, but that doesnt mean they are the same.
Some act as though the police are going to knock on their door if the say bearded. Bearded daylilies was never referenced to hairs. Bearded aloe, bearded dragon, bearded grasses are all commonly referred to dispite not having hairs.
That said, vision is everything. If it weren't for Brad's vision of stable bearding in dayliles... Mike Longo would have a lot less money in his pocket ;)
