Re: Wal-Mart Woes
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- Subject: Re: Wal-Mart Woes
- From: "* A* M* <w*@Ra.MsState.Edu>
- Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 07:15:22 -0600 (MDT)
On Thu, 8 May 1997 suzette.guay@MAIL.ADITECH.COM wrote:
> Walter Moores wrote :
> > Last fall late, I purchased a few Wal-Mart 'bargain' irises as
> >there were a few empty spaces in the beds here and there. If anybody else=
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> >did likewise, I am wondering if the plants bloomed true to name. =20
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> I purchased SAPPHIRE GEM. I planted four rhizomes. Two came up but=20
> according to the people here they aren't SG. I believe they might be=20
> ELEANOR ROOSEVELT. They looked like the picture on the package though. =20
> Who knows what the other two will be.
>
> Suzette Guay
> Baltimore, Maryland
> =20
>
The ones I bought had no pictures....just the Better Homes and
Gardens logo. What is the relationship with BH&G and where do they get
these rhizomes? They are huge and have elephant snouts like Schreiner
plants. Wal-Mart is getting the rhizomes from a good grower though.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS 7/8
