Re: Starting a nursery/pet peeves with nurseries

which brings up my pet peeves....

aggravates me when I see a picture of a gorgeous
flower, then buy the plant and when the bloom turns
out to be so small, you need that zoom lens to notice
the detail!

and then we can talk about how they measure these
plants!.... some are based on foliage size- others are
adding the 3ft stalk with the minuet flower on it... 

Seems I never get the plants in the right place the
first time around :(

Donna

--- Cathy Carpenter <cathy.c@insightbb.com> wrote:

> True -- I thought Chris was also going to have a
> brick and mortar  
> place. However, internet nursery sights could have
> photos of the  
> plants in gardens or containers, not just a close up
> of the plants.
> 
> Cathy, west central IL, z5b
> 
> On Aug 18, 2005, at 10:03 PM, kmrsy wrote:
> 
> > But Cathy, people don't "walk in" to an internet
> mailorder company.
> >
> > Kitty
> > neIN, Z5
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Cathy Carpenter" <cathy.c@insightbb.com>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 8:41 PM
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] Starting a nursery
> >
> >
> >
> >> Since most of us respond to visuals, why not make
> your nursery not
> >> just rows of plants in pots, but a garden where
> people can actually
> >> see (at least some) of those plants in a
> landscape or in containers?
> >> Folks may walk in with a mental picture culled
> from a magazine (a
> >> picture taken in a location that no way shares
> your growing
> >> conditions), but what they then see growing
> around your nursery will
> >> banish the former from their minds.
> >>
> >> Cathy, west central IL, z5b
> >>
> >> On Aug 17, 2005, at 6:04 PM, Christopher P.
> Lindsey wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> I agree 100%.
> >>>
> >>> I was talking with Donna via email last night
> about what the current
> >>> trends are.  I think shade gardens used to be
> the in thing, but
> >>> they're
> >>> now slightly passe and there's a lot more focus
> on sun plants with
> >>> bright
> >>> bold colors.
> >>>
> >>> Although I'm mostly a shade gardener, I think I
> need to focus on  
> >>> more
> >>> unusual stuff and plants that can cross over
> from sun to shade.  
> >>> Sedges
> >>> seem like they're still growing in popularity,
> for example.
> >>>
> >>> One thing about all of the hot new plants --
> almost all of them have
> >>> restricted propagation rights and corresponding
> insane prices.  For
> >>> that reason people are falling to the old
> stand-bys on certain  
> >>> plants.
> >>> Granted, Endless Summer [TM] fills a need that
> no other Hydrangea
> >>> could
> >>> fill before, so its ubiquity is probably a good
> thing.
> >>>
> >>> I subscribe to Chicagoland Gardening, but I
> haven't looked at more
> >>> general
> >>> Midwestern magazines.
> >>>
> >>> Chris
> >>>
> >>>
>
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