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THANKS - AND THANKS FOR NOTHING
You sound a little needy, which might be off-putting to some seed recipients. Certainly there is a type of gardener too cheapy-ass to buy even a $2 seedling or a packet of seeds, the sorts of bungholes who just want something for nothing. Because of my website, I have beggars emailing me for cuttings & seeds several times a week, as there seem to be no end of ******s cruising the web looking for free plants from perfect strangers because they apparently have no actual friends with whom to trade plants. I ignore most of them or send them links to commercial sources, but when I can I do occasionally share things with friends & correspondents, though mainly with visitors rather than with emailers. Despite my own cynical views of the matter, people have sent me things from time to time which they thought I would enjoy, which I often did Helen is the very opposite of needy. She very generously offers to send seeds to people *at her own expense*! If you send to more than a dozen people, that starts to add up to some real $$$. I've exchanged seeds and roots with her, and when her package arrives, there are always extras in there. Like me, she hates to see things go to waste, and that includes extra seeds. In this day and age it seems to be difficult to give freely of your time and resources without comming under suspicion of having an ulterior motive. It doesn't matter wether you spent five minutes stuffing some seeds in an envelope, or an hour digging up some daylilies to divide, it's nice to know that the items arrived and were appreciated. Sometimes life gets in the way for awhile and the recipient takes longer than they'd like to say thanks, but to get no response at all is very frustrating. BP |
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