blown_dry thank you for your thoughts! I truly appreciate it. And apologies for mixing up the two. I know the difference but I was also posting at like 2 am so my mind wasnât exactly all there. Haha.
This discussion is exactly why I wanted to pick everyoneâs brain. While I understand the recommendation youâre making, thereâs also a great deal of family desire to see the prefix resurrected. Itâs the reason dahlias run in the family blood and because there are still âBloomsâ living they donât want that name and its history to go with them. Until I started digging into looking for the Bloomâs dahlias it actually seemed like many of Lewieâs contributions to the Pacific Northwest dahlia community and the Federation largely had been forgotten outside the family. And I donât say that maliciously, itâs just thatâs what happens when someone canât pick up the family torch because theyâre a widower or busy raising children. If I did get a trademark, itâd only be to protect the prefixâI wouldnât want to enforce it for growers and sellers of our introductions; Iâve watched that vitriol on both sides unfold over the last yearâbut with just one cut flower farm growing it seems almost petty to me to do that. As Ted said, I think the delineation between Bloomâs and Blooms should be sufficient especially since my breeding efforts would be for the show world first. I am planning to breed for cut flowers under my own prefix. I dunno. Just a weird situation to be in all around.
