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WHO IS PUNNETT I get asked this all the time, I always assumed that you could infer this from the comments scattered throughout the catalog. Apparently not; for the record Dick Punnett is our highly skilled propagator. he does most of our cutting and grafting and despite being blind in one eye is a veritable samurai with a razor blade. He uses a ton of razor blades, and more than his share of bandaids as well, although generally you find him sitting there with blood dripping still making cuttings and seemingly oblivious. During summer when he is sticking cuttings in the nearing frames he sits in a lawn chair on the shady side of the northernmost frame. He noticed that there were always wasps flying around but he has a zen thing with stinging insects (as well as dripping blood) and was too focused on making cuttings to investigate. Moreover every nearing frame has a wasps nest or two on the shade board and carpenter bees living in the 2x4’s. Weeks later he sat down in the chair and curled his fingers under the armrest, directly into a huge nest full of Polistes. He did not get stung but we did remove the nest under the arm-rest, (we left the other nests although the skunks eventually ate most of them, how they manage this without getting the crap stung out of them is beyond me) His garden is amazing, it covers acres with treasures hidden in every corner, and huge specimens of things that have to be seen to be believed. In the past it was primarily a shade garden although he has a huge tufa garden that is mostly in sun. In recent years his garden has been been under attack, lightning storms, wind storms, ice storms, gypsy moth, Emerald Ash Borer and a plague of meadow voles. All have taken their toll resulting in the loss of dozens of mature trees (this means days of chain sawing and Dick is worse than Mexicans when it comes to earplugs). The worst of it is nothing can fall without smashing other plants, and they never fall on something you hate.