What Ray said, plus:

1. Too many customers not only don't care about them, but actually discard
them immediately after the purchase, intentionally and as a matter of
course -- as if they were taking the pricetag off a new shirt. This is
ultimately the bottom line.

2. Name-tags are an extra expense. The tags themselves are cheap enough,
but then they need to be printed/otherwise treated; put in the right pots
[which requires labor that can do that]; checked and often re-done at
repotting time [which again requires labor that can do that], etc. For
those huge outfits moving hundreds of thousands, or even millions of plants
each year, the savings of not labeling adds up -- and if the customers don't
care, why waste that money?

After seven years, we are now selling mostly plants that we've grown
ourselves, from flask or compot, but we do sometimes buy things in from
wholesalers. I generally have to specify that names are required.

--
Kenni Judd
Juno Beach Orchids
http://www.jborchids.com


"Ray" wrote in message
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I would disagree, Joanna.

Someone else getting an award on one of their plants is as good of a
marketing device as getting an
award on one they still own.

Granted, they cannot clone it, but they can claim to be superior
breeders....

I believe the primary reason tags don't persist is the "mass marketing"
mentality and the
expectation that the plants won't survive anyway.

--

Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com
Plants, Supplies, Books, Artwork, and Lots of Free Info!

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"J Fortuna" wrote in message
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Marc,

Some commercial growers on purpose do not tell the name of the hybrid
because they are more interested in keeping their trade secrets and not
interested in awards. This could be the case with yours as well. I
bought
one stunning Phal orchid that probably had no tag on purpose for such
reasons, at least the staff person at the nursery where I bought it
thought
that that might be the case.

Joanna

"Marc Riva" wrote in message
et.cable.rogers.com...
Diana,
I was surprised myself. Up to this point I have buying from garden
nurseries. I found the wholesaler because of a tag on one of the
orchids I
bought. This wholesaler (she is Taiwanese) only sells orchids but I am
pretty sure that the more exotic plants are imported. The phals are
grown
on
site and they are labelled. BTW I'm in the Toronto area.
Marc