Re: Plant feelings -Reply
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Plant feelings -Reply
- From: K* <g*@primenet.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:00:45 -0700
Re: plant abuse
Here's another one that makes me crazy ...
A local nursery chain stocks up on plants for seasonal color, foxgloves,
for example, and if they don't sell when their first main flower spike is
up, out they go into the dumpster.
I can understand this from a merchandising point of view ... they are a
retail organization and if the inventory doesn't move they can't afford to
have it sitting around, but it's still a shame to see beautiful 1 gallon
plants with lots of new shoots around the bottom thrown in the dumpster and
headed for a landfill.
Needless to say, if I see them, they don't make it to the landfill.
At another chain store, I saw a beautiful houseplant thrown into a trash
barrel. The only thing wrong with it was that it was wilted. I fished it
out and asked the nurseryman if I could buy it for half price and he just
gave it to me and threw in a wilted six pack of dusty millers to boot!
The plant is still on my porch, doing fine.
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