Surprising subject for "Garden Retail" magazine

[Maggi Young]

It is not very often that any of the horticulture mags in the Garden Retail, Hort Week etc stable have anything about alpines or plants  that are remotely "rock garden" plants. What a surprise then to find this subject for  "Garden Retail" magazine  15th January 2015 :

Dodcatheon  by Miranda Kimberley :

http://www.hortweek.com/dodecatheon/retail/article/1329305?DCMP=EMC-CONGardenRetail&bulletin=garden-retail-bulletin   - with quotes from Terry Hunt at Edrom ( and also " Rae Littlewood, partner, Cambridge Alpines, Cambridgeshire" - of whom I have never heard    )

[brianw]

I guess "remotely" is the operative word. I can see these getting promoted in the same way as the gaudy primroses or auriculas or cyclamen. Must be something about this family ;-)
The wild species look delicate and elegant in the wild but then what do "we" do to them?

[fermi de Sousa]

Perhaps you could get in touch with them to suggest other genera that might stir some interest? If they can be commercialised, I guess?
cheers
fermi