Hi Kelly,
I have always been a big fan of your plants and collected as many of them as I can find. I think I have bought some of those unnamed "Kelly Griffin Hybrids" on ebay, and just had a question about them..... Do you wholesale off your unnamed 'Rejects' to people, who in turn sell them as your "Kelly Griffin Hybrid" plants?
I know there are a lot of Echeveria's out there that are sold as "Dick Wright Hybrids" or plants of his that were renamed and sold as someone else's hybrids..... that he didn't name. I was told that he wholesaled off all his reject seedlings, and this is how that happened..... So I was just curious is this is where your unnamed plants are coming from..... I would think the way to prevent this from happening would be to burn anything you haven't named that isn't still on your bench for consideration or breeding. Or are these "Kelly Griffin Hybrids" simply your named plants that people have lost the labels on, so they can't sell them with the right name?
Is there a webpage or something that has photo's of your named plants that I can use as sort of a wish list? That would be awesome because my goal is to get them all!.....and throw away the unnamed ones
One thing I really like about most of your plants is looking at them and trying to see your inspiration for naming the plant. Most of your names are really descriptive and look like they took a lot of thought... or they were named in recognition of someone who must have inspired you in some way.
The only ones I can't figure out are all the ones with the Italian names. With a name like Griffin, you sound more Irish than Italian. Did you name these after members of your family, or have a lot of Italian Friends? I have always been curious about this.
Harry