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At 02:10 PM 9/23/98 +0000, you wrote:
>> Amen!!  My frustrations exactly-which is why I am 
>very hesitant to add any indoor plants to my collection.
>Caron in Sunny Colorado

I wouldn't miss out on an interesting plant just because it didn't have a
name.  Half the fun for me is the challenge of growing something when I
don't know what it is or what conditions it needs.  Be adventurous. <G> 

>> 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.
>> 
>> Sue in NJ
Ruth Zavitz                                     
rzavitz@execulink.com                            
Freelance Writer & Gardening Consultant, zone 6 Southern Ontario
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