I will.
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From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf
Of Zemuly Sanders
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 3:30 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] succulents
I'm at #704, which is the Home Depot across from Wolf Chase Galleria off
G'town Parkway. Come see me.
zem
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lynda Young" <lyoung@grindertaber.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 1:22 PM
Subject: RE: [CHAT] succulents
> Zem, which location is your store if I can ask?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> Behalf Of Zemuly Sanders
> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 11:27 AM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] succulents
>
> I can honestly tell you that, while you are right about Lowe's and
> WalMart, the Home Depot where I work depends on the garden department
> to carry the store. We get awesome plants, mostly from local growers.
> The tropicals and succulents do come from Florida and Texas, but the
> shrubs and trees come predominately from Tennessee and South Carolina.
> My store might be unique, but I try very hard to "create the fantasy"
> that we are special. I have no qualms about referring customers to
> our locally owned nurseries (probably because I know a lot of those
> owners personally), and we also do a huge business with landscape
> contractors along with less knowledgable gardeners.
> I'm not sure the Home Depot was ready for my non-box store approach,
> but I can prove on paper that it's working. I really believe it's
> part of my responsibility to educate potential gardeners and not to
> simply sell suff to them, and I've encouraged lots of customers to get
> involved with local plant societies and certainly to visit the Mempis
> Botanic Garden. No one mentions the resident cats any more since we
> had no rodent or sparrow damage last winter. And now children come to
> our nursery specifically to play with Alphonse, the big male. I'm
> still having a great time.
> zem
> zone 7
> West TN
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Franzman" <dfranzma@pacbell.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 2:29 PM
> Subject: [CHAT] succulents
>
>
>> Hi Noreen
>>
>> I know exactly what you are saying. What was once rare is no longer
>> really rare in the market place however the folks with money are
>> quite often the collectors who are willing to pay a premium for fine
>> plant material from reputable growers. For the greater number of
>> consumers who can't really tell the difference between a succulent
>> and a woody shrub they shop at where ever they can get the least
>> expensive material in the largest pot. Since the big box stores use
>> plants as a lost leader to bring in customers the smaller growers are
>> really having a hard time. Rare plants is one way they are trying to
>> stay in the business without selling their souls to Lowes and
>> Walmart.
>> David
>>
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