Re: Working to rule?

**A*@aol.com**

Lowe's buys stuff for groups of stores from suppliers and so delivery trucks 
make several drop-offs in a circuit.  As far as I am aware they have bought 
plant material for exterior use in New England only from US nurseries, albeit 
often from very large companies, i.e., Hines.  Most of the woody material comes 
from far south of New England and was very advanced this spring.  Last year 
the big boxes suffered from insufficient watering, this year it has been cold 
temps. and fungus.  And they thought selling live plants was just a matter of 
pricing 'em low.

It has been a miserable season for all retailers of plant material, but I see 
the people who know how to handle plants under bad weather coming out a 
little ahead.  Certainly no one wants to lose the endless choices of producers who 
are into third or even fifth generation ownership of the same business.  They 
are definitely the avant garde of producers.

Barbara Emeneau
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