RE: mislabeled plants

The other "moral" is to buy from reputable nurseries.  All make mistakes
sometimes, but sounds like you hit the jackpot.

I have to ask -- who all did you get all this mislabeled stuff from?

Susan Saxton, zone 6b
For mine is a little old fashioned garden where the flowers come
together to praise the Lord and teach all who look upon them to do
likewise.
Celia Thaxter

I AM in shape.  ROUND is a shape!


> -----Original Message-----
> From: jeanne latta [j*@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 3:17 PM
> To: perennial list
> Subject: mislabeled plants
> 
> 
> Well Kemberly, welcome to the group who live with
> mislabeled plants.  I was perusing my garden this
> afternoon and counting the plants I have that were
> supposed to be something else.  My pink foxglove that
> I planted is starting to bloom and it is white.  My
> red poppy bloomed early this week and it is a vivid
> orange.  I planted 3 red Monarda.  2 of them turned
> out to be violet and the other one is pink.  The
> butterfly weed has turned out to be red valerian, The
> coreopsis grandiflora began blooming today and it
> looks more like a gaillardia.  In fact in my whole
> garden, the only plants that are what they are
> supposed to be are the ones I bought from White Flower
> Farm.  What is it with these growers.
> Off the topic..several years ago my sister who lives
> near Atlanta in a pinkish brick house ordered 800
> tulip bulbs from a catalogue.  She told them they
> could mix the colors as long as none of them were
> orange.  They came, she planted them and the following
> spring she was greeted with 800 orange tulips.  The
> end is that they sent her a complete refund for the
> 800 orange tulips and the following autumn sent her
> 800 more tulips free.  (this time no orange.)  She
> asked them if they would send someone to dig up the
> 800 orange ones but they declined.
> The moral is that we have to live with someone else's
> mistakes.
> Jeanne
> 
> ===
> Jeanne
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