I feel there's room for both: we specialise in daffodil cultivars bred before 1930, and grow a wide range of soft fruit and vegetables primarily for the family. I try new and old cultivars of vegetables every year, and sometimes it's an old cv which surpasses new introductions, but in other seasons I discover a new cv which comes up trumps. Growing anything apart from dockans and perennial grasses is a challenge in north-west Scotland, and anything edible which can cope with our conditions is welcome -- from whatever era.
