Re: plant sale

I hate that too Kitty.  It takes a lot of convincing to get people to try
again!   Congrats on your sale, sounds like it was a great success!

On 4/26/08, Kitty <kmrsy@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> I had my annual plant sale this weekend. I took in $1700, of which about
> $1500 was plants.  I have 20 pots left.
>
> A nice young girl stopped by late this afternonn hoping to pick out a few
> plants.  She explained that she was newly married and they have their first
> home and she wanted to try her hand at gardening, but she was afraid she
> wasn't very good at it.  She bought a package deal of 100 bulbs and plants
> from MICHIGAN BULB last year and only 6 are showing any sign of life.  Even
> the Lily of the Valley isn't up yet.  I told her to stop buying from MB and
> gave her a couple of relatively inexpensive catlogues from reliable
> mailorder nurseries.  Then I dug up about a 15 inch square chunk of Lily of
> the Valley for her.
>
> I had hoped when Gardens Alive took over the Michigan Bulb group that they
> would clean it up a little instead of continuing shady practices with, for
> the most part, crap products.  MB is where a lot of newbies start because
> they see it in the Sunday paper.  Then when things go wrong, they think it's
> their own fault, are dejected, and quit.  I really hate that.
>
> Kitty
> neIN, Zone 5
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
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