echinosum wrote:
> Travis;738945 Wrote:
>> I have sent all 3 you mentioned an email asking why they call runners
>> clumping.
> If you get a reply, they will say, glibly, something like "because they
> are effectively clumping in UK conditions" or "because it assists our
> customers to understand they are not difficult invasive plants like
> sasa palmata". And carry on. They may even call in their defence the TV
> personality gardeners who call them clumping. The real, unspoken,
> answers are "because we want to sell them, and we think that calling
> them 'running' would frighten off the customers", and "clumping is not
> a scientific term like pachymorphic, so I won't get done by trading
> standards for misusing it".
>
> I'm not defending them. I think it's shabby.
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I have not heard from a single one of them.
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Travis in Shoreline Wa****ngton
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