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RE: [GWL]: Landscape trades - what do garden writers want?

Popcorn is annoying!  When I ship I use either bubble wrap (if I have
any) or more commonly newspaper.  Also, when nurserys ship plants they
spend all that extra money shipping dirt, pot and all....why not give
the buyer a choice?  After all most annuals and perennials get potted in
the ground almost immediately anyway.

Hobbyists almost always ship bare root and I have only lost one out of
hundreds of plants sent to me this way.  The reason I lost it was the
mail man left the box in full sun and the heat inside the plastic bag
fried it.

Tropicals might be a bit different as many home gardeners don't have
soil, but again, why not offer an option?

I have not bought many plants I wanted to because of the expense of
shipping.  Had there been an alternative I would have purchased them. I
mean after all, why buy a plant for $25 and spend $40 total by the time
shipping is added in?  

Another annoyance is minimum orders.  Many times I've found an unusal
plant and wanted to buy it but there was a minimum order.  If I could
drive to their nursery I wouldn't have encountered that.  Not only that,
but often I can't find another plant they have that I want.  Maybe I'm a
bit picky here but when I have hundreds of plants inside I have to be
picky about the new ones I introduce or I'll run out of room.

Sheri


-----Original Message-----
From: Carolyn Ulrich [C*@aol.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 10:10 PM
To: Gardenwriters@topica.com
Subject: Re: [GWL]: Landscape trades - what do garden writers want?


how about getting rid of "popcorn" protection for plants that are being 
shipped? carolyn ulrich

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