RE: common mistakes?

She was pretty irrate that he'd disposed of them, but then got rid of the rest 
she'd kept at home.  She claims that over the years she has given them to 
people and they have been so pleased with the flowers. She insists that her SAC 
has different leaves than everyone else's.  My guess is that she had indeed 
previously given some bonafide SAC starts to friends, but just didn't pay close 
enough attention to what she was digging this time.  That, or these friends 
she's given them to are being polite.

Kitty

> Kitty: So how many of her friends do you suppose this unsuspecting lady
> has passed this horrible infestation on to?? I hope your hort ed. was
> able to find a way to tactfully tell her about her boo-boo! LOL!
> 
> 
> 
> Melody, IA (Z 5/4)
> 
> "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."    
> --Albert Einstein
> 
>  --- On Sat 09/13, Kitty < kmrsy@comcast.net > wrote:
> From: Kitty [mailto: kmrsy@comcast.net]
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 21:34:34 -0500
> Subject: [CHAT] common mistakes?
> 
> We had our final MG plant sale today. 7 of us work in a section of
> the<br>garden referred to as Propagation; I prefer to think of it as
> Nursery,<br>because most of the plants are purchased tiny and grown on.
> In order to<br>expand our offerings we also bring items of our own that
> could be considered<br>special and only if we can supply 10+ of them. We
> tag these plants as MG<br>Special Selections and get nicer prices for
> them than mosy other plants in<br>the sale.<br><br>I had mentioned that
> some people had been asking for Clematis. One of our<br>team said she
> had loads of Sweet Autumn starts. We all agreed it is
> not<br>particularly "special", but perhaps we could move them because
> vines are<br>rarely if ever offered. This woman is a 12 yr MG, very
> knowledgable. I<br>said my SAC never puts out seedlings but I have heard
> some people say they<br>do, but not lots of them. She was amazed at that
> and set to work potting up<br>the starts; said she had 30 quarts. I
> thought we'd grow them on, but she<br>brought a dzn directly to the
> sale. I couldn't believe it. She had<br>actually potted up
> Bindweed.<br><br>What to do? I couldn't confront her, so I asked the
> Hort Ed, could he<br>please look at these. He replied that, not only
> were they very bad<br>specimens, but indeed bindweed, picked the tray up
> and threw it all in the<br>sanitainer. Said he would smooth it over with
> her. During the sale while<br>she was making her rounds to make sure all
> was running smoothly (her job)<br>she remarked about how quickly her SAC
> sold.....<br><br>Kitty<br><br>--------------------------------------------------
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