Re: trial plants?

**C* E* <C*@CatrionaTudorErler.com>**

My Proven Winners delivery last week also is doing well, except for one of the Spirea media Double Play® Blue Kazoo® that was looking very sad and sickly when it arrived (stress of the journey, I'm sure), and doesn't look like it will survive, alas.  
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On Jun 16, 2014, at 2:27 PM, KTCopsey--- via gardenwriters <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:

> mine go into the ground too. OK the commercial buyer would probably get a  
> larger one, but they still it in the ground regardless so knowing how it 
> grows  is a bonus. Nan - your climate might make that tough, but for me it is 
> Ok - I  just keep an eye on them for the first season or two. The White 
> Flower  Farm/Proven Winners from last week are much larger than most and are 
> settling in  well courtesy a very damp and dreary week last week - one of those 
> great for  plants, frustrating for humans weeks.
> 
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> In a message dated 6/16/2014 1:45:32 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> Nsterman@plantsoup.com writes:
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> 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.   
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