Comments on: fun with hybrids

By: lostlandscape

lostlandscape — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:16:54 +0000

It’ll be interesting to see what comes out of the sage hybrid. Salvia x ‘Lost Landscape’? Hmmm, never thought of the possibility. Maybe it’d need a different name to stand a chance on the market, though. Something about sweet foods or cute puppies or kittens, maybe…

By: lostlandscape

lostlandscape — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:13:45 +0000

CM, a tall order, and an admirable goal. I’m arrogant enough to include myself in what’s unique about my plot of earth and what happens in my garden, and my ground is tainted with the cultural baggage I bring to garden-making, even to the point that garden-making might even include plant-making via hybridization. It’s definitely a different thing to arrange three plants in a row than it is to breed them together to see what might come about. But I think there are responsible ways to feed a curiosity that might explore in the backyard over a decade what nature itself might do over the course of the centuries. In these cases, with the plants I mentioned, they stand no chance of surviving locally outside of human pampering, let alone escaping to the wild lands beyond the garden walls.

By: ryan

ryan — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:17:46 +0000

Those pitcher plants are very cool. Seems like you’re on your way to having Sarracenia and Salvia cultivars named “Lost in the Landscape.”

By: country mouse

country mouse — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:51:19 +0000

I’m a lot less sanguine about all this, for my own case. I’d rather like to restore the native landscape and undo all the errors of my ways and those who came before me, to preserve what is unique about this spot of mother earth. It’s a hard row to hoe though…