My question to Ned Nash is this; Why then has the AOS been so
strongly supporting the promotion of the mass produced - low prioduction
cost - potted plant market at the detriment of the small, custom
propagated species orientated businesses? This trend has been going on for
years, including the years of your term as AOS president, you were busy
promoting KB Orchids, the Taiwanese and others, and yet Hoosiers, Oak Hill
and other species orientated shops were left without any support. The
whole point back then of the AOS hiring Andy Easton was to serve as
technical and marketing support for the huge mass production mega
companies. What has the AOS been doing for the small producers?
The AOS has been systematically ignoring the species specialists
in favor of the gaudy low cost hybrids that cater to the eternal novice,
for many years. Why do you think the AOS membership has plummeted? Because
you don't need to know anything to buy an orchid from Lowes.
Hoosier's demise has been contributed to by the very AOS that you
yourself were an officer and board member of. Granted, not by active
malicious deeds, but by neglect, and by not being responsive to your
membership.
Just my opinion.
Leo
Message: 3
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 09:20:13 -0700
From: "Ned Nash" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [OGD] Hoosier Orchids
<snip> If no one supports those who take the time and effort to produce
more desireable plants, those producers and their plants will vanish, as
Ernest Hetherington liked to say "on the desert wind."
Once the nurseries catering to the orchidists are gone, owing to lack of
support, where will we find orchids other than those raised solely for
their low production costs?
Ned Nash <snip>
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