Re: CAT: What makes a good provider?
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- Subject: Re: CAT: What makes a good provider?
- From: s*@aristotle.net (J. Michael, Celia or Ben Storey)
- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 19:13:18 -0700 (MST)
>A friend of mine has purchased an old Iris/daylily farm in Western
>Colorado. The previous folks had it for 39 years and have lots of long
>time loyal customers. We'd like to know what makes a good Iris
>provider?
Sheryl, hi. Here are some things I like about certain mail order houses
I've dealt with.
1) They send fat, healthy rhizomes, and they don't let the names get mixed up.
2) The catalogs at least attempt a complete bloom descrip, they don't just
say "great pink!" For species plants, they add culture notes. They're
scrupulous about spellings.
3) For bonus plants, they send extras of what you've ordered - or really
high class plants. More of what you ordered is the best, but fancy new
intros and rebloomers are a treat. I'd rather have one fancy rebloomer than
5 puny fingerlings that will take two seasons to mature enough to bloom. In
other words, don't unload on me. My garden is small.
(Gosh that sounded ungrateful. I'm sorry. I really shouldn't look a gift
horse in the mouth.)
4) If all they have is puny offsets, they apologize and give me a refund,
they don't send the puny offset.
5) They include a packing slip with the order.
6) They write cultivar names on an inside leaf and spell the name correctly.
7) They answer the phone.
celia
storey@aristotle.net
Little Rock ... where we are already way above normal annual rainfall and
have yet to experience a hard freeze. I haven't even seen light frost. I.
nelsonii is growing like wild things.
