Re: Plant feelings -Reply
Kwint wrote:
>
> 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.
That's a great story. I know that Walmart probably chucks a lot of
their stuff out the door and into the trash.
When we lived on the Air bases I used to frequent garage sales because
they were usually PCS moves and the people had beautiful plants at
give-away prices.
If anyone lives around government bases, this is a good place to look
for plants also.
WIndy
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