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Re: Bad News Gardens are back?[xwall-bcc][xwall-faked-from][xwall-mx]

Sad to say, Michigan Bulb Company is alive and well, operating out of a
new location by new owners who bought the name for a dime when the
company's owners put MBC and all of the 12+ tradestyles operating under
the Foster & Gallagher parent company out of business in 2001. I doubt
Gardener's Choice is one and the same. Its most likely a spin-off by
some hort folks who lost their job in this dreaded economy and are
spiraling to great lengths to feed their families and keep their
mortgages intact at any cost.

C. Frances
Garden Writer

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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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