A Dream Plant.
A few years ago a person came to my office to discuss a begonia patent that he was trying to finish. It seemed the lawyers had bled him out of several thousand dollars and still not completed the patent. Feeling bad for him as he was almost in tears, I helped to answer a few botanical questions from the patent office and eventually he got the patent. He was grateful and later gave me a nice little plant as a gift.
Two years later this begonia is thriving in one of mosaic mom's pots. It is about 7 feet tall and 3 feet wide and covered with pink flowers. All we do is haul it inside in case of a freeze. This winter two stems were broken off by the TOP of the door when taking it in. This plant has never been treated for any kind of insect or disease problems. I am starting to get impressed.
Of course we now have a few seedlings growing from this plant. Two of them have nice white flowers and we hope they have the same vigor and toughness. Begonias can be good.
1 Comments:
I wonder how anyone could patent a plant without tons of documentation that they themselves hybridized and tested it, and that it was unique. It takes years to get to that point. I also wonder why they would need a patent. There are tens of thousands of begonia varieties in the world, with more being created each day. They are rarely patented.
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