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RE: Plant Snobs, common plants used poorly

Sean O'Hara wrote:

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I do fault the large number of nurseries who market plants inappropriate to 
our climate, and market anything they can sell without regard for the final 
outcome of the garden involved.

I agree Sean. This problem is not limited to California! My wife and I have 
had to resort to carrying heavy garden encyclopedias around on plant buying 
expeditions so we can check whether a plant sold locally is frost tolerant. 
It amazes me the number of times I have found a plant that cannot tolerate 
any frost being sold in a garden centre in a town that gets frosts around 
30 nights per year on average!

The other thing I take exception to is the plant label that states that a 
particular tree will grow to 6 x 4 metres, when I know it will grow to 20 x 
15 given time. Some poor person is going to have to cut out a lot of 
expensive trees in ten years time because of this, but never mind, the 
nursery got its money.

Tim Dutton
"Raindrops", Main Road North, Kaitoke, Upper Hutt, New Zealand
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