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Sep 11, 2013 7:53 PM CST
Name: Kevin Vaughn
Salem OR (Zone 8a)
Peter,

Those gold heuffeliis are AMAZING. I wonder if they are good growers too. That's one reason I wanted to get something out of 'Torrid Zone' or 'Hot Lips' as both of these grow very easily. The reds in both seedlings groups look very happy too. Both of these heuffeliis are out of 'Henri Correvon', which seems to throw a lot of yellows, but weak ones.

With the crazy laws we have now about importing plants into the US, it is SO difficult for us to get a new cultivar into the country that I see little chance for getting those cultivars here. For the shipment from Fernwood I had to pay a 90 pound test for some potato pathogen! Of course the test of Howard's nursery was negative but that is RIDICULOUS. Howard has never grown potatoes on his property even! OK I'll get off my soapbox! Unfortunately I worked for the agency that made these crazy rules for 30 years although I did not make any such rules.

Probably 40 years a prominent grower told me that "I think we have seen it all". Obviously they hadn't thought about Lynn's combo of 'Oddity' and 'Killer'!!

Kevin

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