Re: Question for mail order folks
Well, Jim
I suppose we could both be "right". Of course there is plenty of
assembly line production in the nursery world. That type of production
excludes, to a great extent, many of the perennials that are slow or
difficult .. mostly slow to come up to size in propagation. Time, is indeed,
money in production. So, the industry is tending toward only the "easy ones"
and often the same wholesalers offer the same plants so that no matter where
you go... you find the same products.
I make my living by trying to have an inventory that is not duplicated
at every other garden center... mostly by offering the slow or hard to
propagate plants, things that are new to the trade, and then narrowing that
all down to shade plants.. all of which are perennial. It is a very small
percentage of the overall pie that is interested in what I do here... but
enough. There is room for both.
Gene E. Bush
Munchkin Nursery & Gardens, llc
www.munchkinnursery.com
genebush@munchkinnursery.com
Zone 6/5 Southern Indiana
----- Original Message -----
From: "james singer" <islandjim1@verizon.net>
Have to disagree, Gene. On the whole, container size does, indeed, say
something about the plant--just as the number of beds in a hospital says
something about the survival rate of operation patients. Not perfect,
granted, but better than "trust me" guarantees.
And, to a great extent, plants are widgets. There is nothing mysterious
about growing then from a start, a cutting, or a seed; some nurseries do
it better than others; some can't do it at all from some kinds of material
or some kinds of plants--it depends on a lot of things that are more
science than hocus-pocus.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@hort.net with the
message text UNSUBSCRIBE GARDENCHAT
Other Mailing lists |
Author Index |
Date Index |
Subject Index |
Thread Index
