Re: Gardeners vs consumers

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• Subject: Re: [GWL]: Gardeners vs consumers
• From: Barbara Emeneau apismno@aol.com>
• Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 17:40:36 EDT
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Claude, I think on the whole you are right, but I have seen so many people 
buy low priced nursery stock and think that a little extra care will be 
sufficient to have the plant(s) grow satisfactorily.  Rather, it seems to me 
that a lot of academic knowledge and direct experience are needed to decide 
whether something is beyond salvation.  The beginner too often, nowadays, has 
to learn individually how to evaluate nursery stock.  I have also seen people 
who perfectly well should have known better accept low quality stock on 
another's behalf.  It seems to be that the nursery business is responding to 
calls for increased production at lower prices, by producing an average plant 
that needs knowledgeable care in the retail setting, or should be culled yet 
isn't.  I have worked for a rewholesaler and the quality was directly tied to 
which individual was responsible for accepting delivery and aftercare as 
well.  The customer was recognized to be largely totally uninformed so the 
business was able to roll along because the prices seemed low and the 
customers didn't recognize what they were buying.  
Yes, garden writers et al. be trying to educate their readers.  It usually 
seemed to me that Joan Lee Faust would stick to a narrow topic, and what she 
wrote was accurate, and sufficient.  Today we seem to need to cover a dozen 
or more topics in 300-500 words and all we can provide that way slogans.

Barbara

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