Re: OT - nursery orders/supply

In a message dated 4/30/1999 2:55:39 PM Central Daylight Time, 
tilton44@erols.com writes:

<< 
  Last year, they have told me they had ordered & would be getting in
 Nandina "Gulf Stream." Spring comes, they don't have it.  The same thing
 has happened this year! (and they had even told me what day it was to
 arrive).  The manager just said "we couldn't get it."  So, my question
 is, are things really out of their control as they make it out to be?
 Do nursery owners place orders for things that just aren't on the truck
 when the delivery day comes?  Or do I start spending my $$ at a
 different nursery?
 TIA
 Barb (southe >>

the Nursery has to make their orders in the fall with the wholesalers.
If the whole sellers sells out then the nursery is out of luck.

Every October I order 100 to 150 diffrent kinds plants for spring and every 
year 10% of my order that the wholesalers say they will ship is item out our 
crop failure
that is the way life is with living things.  Some plants die or production is 
down.
It is out of the Nurseries hands.

Lets say Nursery has an order for five diffrent kinds of Heuchera.
The order is sent in oct/november.
The wholesaler sends back a conformation saying your going to get all your 
plants on the ship date of March 1st.
 In February you get a not saying that one of the items is out, you will not 
get it.
You print your price list.
When March 1st comes and your order is in, you find out that two more items 
were not available
that is life.
You now have two Heuchera to sell, when you ordered five and you printed your 
Catalogue listing four.


Paul 
Specialty Perennials
Minnesota 
zone 4
http://hardyplants.com

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