Bad News Gardens are back?

**H*@aol.com**

Thought I posted this last night but it seems to have  evaporated...here's 
the second try:

I thought we'd gotten rid of the likes of the  Michigan Bulb Company years 
ago...but it looks like it may have been  reincarnated as Gardeners' Choice.

I was looking at an advertising insert in the  New York Times and there's 
this advert for "An Everblooming Hedge Packed With  Thousands of Flowers!" 
referred to as Siberian Lavender. The ad goes on to  say "...Plus the delicate scent 
of lavender perfume...."  Ever heard of  it?  Neither had I so I Googled the 
name and the first hit was a 2002  notice from an Illinois extension agent 
about the bogus claims.  The plant  is actually Perovskia atripicifolia   which  
is mispelled in the 2002 ad and agian in the 2006 ad as perovskia  
atripliafolia. Looks like a simple cut and paste job.  Their online ad  at 
_http://www.gardenerschoice.net/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=98_ 
(http://www.gardenerschoice.net/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=98)  describes the plant 
quite differently and even says  it's also known as Russian Sage with an " 
uplifting sage-like fragrance".   Quiet a different story, yes?

Please, tell your readers the truth.  Bad,  even false advertising like this 
hurts all of us in the gardening world.   If you know how to contact the 
executives at the parent company of Gardeners'  Choice please do so and let us know 
who they are.  Unfortunatly I think I  know or remember the history.  

Andrew Messinger
The Hampton  Gardener

The Hampton Gardener is a Registered Trade  Mark
(Published every Thursday in the Southampton Press)

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