Colocasia ‘Redemption’ is looking rather exceptional in the garden now. We are thrilled to be able to offer Brian Williams’ amazing elephant ear introduction. If you’d like a little pizzaz in your summer garden, this is for you.
Lookin’ for Redemption
Colocasia, Colocasia esculenta 'Redemption', elephant ears, hardy aroids, tropical looking plants, variegated aroid
Wild addition for a tropical garden
Outstanding beauty
very disappointing of you to write this after writing this article
https://www.plantdelights.com/blogs/articles/name-that-plant#:~:text=The%20practice%20of%20using%20nonsensical,the%20legal%20use%20of%20trademarks.
direct quote from you: “Short of this, it is going to be up to the Garden Writers Association (GWA) and the American Public Gardens Association (APGA) to identify plants by their one and only cultivar name, and hopefully at the same time embarrass those who persist in making up stupid nonsensical names for good plants and illegally using trademarks to deceive the public.”
We’ve been consistent about the improper use of trademarks, so you’ll have to clarify your point. Just because the trademarks aren’t used correctly, doesn’t mean they aren’t great plants and worthy of being in gardens.
The point is you are improperly using the trademarked name in this post, and don’t use the proper name “COREDE” once. Brian Williams has filed two DMCA intellectual property theft reports against me using the trademarked name “Redemption” on my Instagram posts; I agree it’s a fantastic plant and I have one myself, but it’s up to you to stay true to your own words and use this plants proper name, not the illegal trademark. You said so yourself.
We always tried to use the breeders name if it was reasonably pronouncable, even as a fake word. You are correct that we erred in not following that protocol with C. ‘Corede’…my fault. We also had the same band of idiots cause similar issues for us on social media. We spent a good bit of time engaging a trademark lawyer, who was confident in our ability to have this trademark rendered invalid due to improper use, if we were willing to spend the money. In short, it is NOT a trademark infringement to discuss the plant on-line by the trademark name. It is not our desire, however, to punish the breeder, so we did not go forward, despite it costing us quite a bit of lost revenue. Next time, we may not play as nice. Many people in the industry are furious with the firm that is causing all these problems claiming trademark infringement. I’m betting it won’t be long before this gets litigated, and the breeder will be the one to get hurt.