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

**jo ellen meyers sharp h*@sbcglobal.net**

I'm pretty sure Randy Schultz is handling pr for all of those 
companies, whose assets, I think, are owned by Gardens Alive! I 
suggest taking up your concerns with him.

Randy Schultz
Schultz Communications
8205 Spain Road NE, Suite 201
Albuquerque, NM 87109
Phone: 505-822-8222
Fax: 505-822-9122
Email: schultz@schultzpr.com

jems

>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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>Subject: [GWL] Bad News Gardens are back?
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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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