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Re: trial plants?

So this brings up an issue for me that I wonder if others face.  Trial plants are usually too tiny to plant in my garden so I have to pot them up and grow them for a year before planting them out.  That defeats the purpose since I can’t report on how they did until at least year AFTER I’ve received them.  

I’ve suggested to the folks who send out samples that they send larger plants and several of each since testing one really doesn’t tell you much.  

Am I the only person who struggles with this? 

Nan

On May 13, 2014, at 3:48 PM, Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp <thehoosiergardener@gmail.com> wrote:

> I get regularly plants from Ball Horticulture (Simply Beautiful and Burpee), Proven Winners. Walters Gardens, Terra Nova Nurseries, Hortcouture, Blooms of Bressingham, Skagit, Anthony Tesselaar and Suntory. New this year is Jung.
> 
> I get bulbs from Colorblends and Longfield Gardens.
> 
> I do not write about everything I get. Sometimes I do and sometimes I use my experience growing a plant in one of my presentations.
> 
> jems
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> On May 13, 2014, at 6:33 PM, info@thisgardencooks.com wrote:
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> What companies send you garden plants to trial and write about? Proven Winners has always been great about sending new varieties. I'd like to find out who else does that. Thanks.
> 
> Nina Koziol
> Www.thisgardencooks.com
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