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May 8, 2015 3:43 PM CST
Name: Rick Corey
Everett WA 98204 (Zone 8a)
Sunset Zone 5. Koppen Csb. Eco 2f
Frugal Gardener Garden Procrastinator I helped beta test the first seed swap Plant and/or Seed Trader Seed Starter Region: Pacific Northwest
Photo Contest Winner: 2014 Avid Green Pages Reviewer Garden Ideas: Master Level Garden Sages I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! I helped plan and beta test the plant database.
No, I just searched for the word you guessed.

I'm not someone who can criticize ANYone else for their handwriting or spelling: mine stink on ice. Thank goodness for spell-checkers!

I tried briefly to help a seed-sharing scheme over in DG, where many people would send big bags of saved seeds and i would split them up and label them then maske them available to new members.

That was the hard part: labeling something that I received as faded, smeared Magic Marker on plastic, with one-word common names or very misspelled and illegible Latin names. I couldn't handle the ambiguity. That was when I learned that ONE common name can apply to dozens of unrelated species, or a random plants in a half-dozen genera.

I couldn't handle just labeling a seed packet "Brugs".

At the time, it surprised me that most people are NOT obsessive about IDs, let alone cross-pollination. One person explained that she didn't care much about NAMES, she just liked pretty flowers. At the time, it made my head explode, but now I realize that NOT everyone is a nerd.

That was also when I learned that some people didn't use "OP" to mean "a variety that has been inbred over years to be genetically uniform and stable". Some, and I guess many, use it to mean "pollinated by wind or insect, probably uncontrolled, NOT specifying any degree of isolation or known cross-pollination".

Hard-core nerds might even be a minority!

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