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Re: [AGA-mcm] Potential issue
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Ghazanfar Ghori wrote:
..and this presents no problem what so ever. We thought he'd want to use
some plants that are normally not available through conventional means,
and thats why we offered up our cuttings - we were not trying to save
a dime here and there. We've got plants here within GWAPA that only a
handful of people in the US have. If he wants to use the regular
stuff - that's fine with us, and we'll gladly provide them. It's good in a way,
he'll aquascape with the bread and butter plants - it'll encourage
people - show them you do not need have access to rare plants to
scape well.
Sounds like the rare plants are the perfect things to bring in HIGH
DOLLARS at the auction. When Claus brought over Pellia it was going for
what over $80 a bag, I don't remember the max price now but it is fun.
Every year I have been (only missed one year and probably this year stuck
in the hotel room with our 10 mo old) there has been a hotly pursued
plant. Plants bring in lots of money at the auctions....are great to
have. Dry goods seem to me to bring in less.
BTW - did you guys read through the plant list? Almost sounds like
a list of plants an 'American' scape would consist of.
FYI - we tried numerous times to obtain a list of plants that Amano would
like to use, equipment that he would need etc - all to no avail.
Finally, through
Tomoko, we were able to get a response to our queries.
This is not uncommon, Erik was really having to be persistent to get
answers too.
Jay - there's a business deal between Jeff and Amano. He's bringing the
equipment at his cost - it's up to him what he wants to do with it
after the demo. We cannot force him to donate those items.
I agree, I would be bummed to not be able to bid on an Amano tank if I
lived locally that said, how really cool that we get to see Amano do his
stuff, with his tank and supplies. That will be a real treat too.
Exactly the AGA doesnt' have the money to do the shipping, so it is nice
that Jeff is having it shipped to the convention. After all he could of
just had it shipped to TX, but then he wouldn't have gotten to see Amano
aquascape it. All give and take, but I really hope I get to see this
one!!!! (and not be stuck in the hotel room)
No one is 'nickle and diming' about the plants. That said, I beleive, a sizable
portion of the revenues from the auction were due to FANs generous donation
of plants last year. The plants we're getting for Amano, hopfully through FAN,
should end up in the auction and not anywhere else.
It was amazing seeing what amano tossed aside last time, he would toss
whole bunches of plants....was really disappointed in some of then. It
was really cool to see how he choose what to do with the set up. It was
all part of the learning experience and really cool. That is one reason
why I think it would be cool to have him after lunch. People that wanted
to stay and help prep and see what Amano was doing before his talk. It
did easily take over an hour to prep. The gravel all had to be prepared
too, and Karen/Charlene spent time before the convention washing
substrate, collecting rocks/wood....etc. So someone should ask what he
needs done.
An interesting thing was last time they ran a hose into the convention
room to fill up the tank. A logistic that may not have been considered
yet.
Kathy
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