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Re: tag info

> Amen!!  My frustrations exactly-which is why I am 
very hesitant to add any indoor plants to my collection.
Caron in Sunny Colorado

> > Also, how do you feel about the information given
> > on name tags with the plants.  Does it usually
> > seem accurate to you?
> 
> To quote Jay Sherman of the old _Critic_ cartoon show: "It stinks!"
> 
> No store around me sells indoor plants aside from the expensive 
> arrangements at the florists, so I hop over the bridge into the next 
> state to a chain garden center. Not one plant had a name on it! There 
> was one poster at about the 10 foot level on one of the beams in the 
> hothouse and the print so so small you would need binoculars to not 
> only see the pictures but read the print. And the poster only showed 
> flowering plants, none of the "greenery" that was in the store at the 
> present time.
> 
> Most of the plants did have those tiny plastic sticks with minimum 
> care instructions, though, like "mild sun, do not overwater" but that 
> was about it.
> 
> I saw a lot of nice plants, but even spending all day Sunday with a 
> few different plant books and roaming the web I still can't find the 
> names of most of them.
> 
> Really frustrating, but since I needed some greenery in this house I 
> was desperate so I bought them.
> 
> 
> Sue in NJ
> 
> Life goes on, dull as before. -- Mike Nelson
> http://www.agoron.com/~susang/index.htm
>
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