Re: trial plants?

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Mine were very well packed but the two Spirea are kind of disintegrating.  Powdery mildew, I think.  The others are thriving.

LN

On Jun 16, 2014, at 3:33 PM, Catriona Erler wrote:

> 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:
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>> 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:
>> 
>> 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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