Re: mislabeled plants
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- Subject: Re: mislabeled plants
- From: M* T*
- Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 03:12:08 -0400
Gene, no excuses needed, but there's a vast difference between making the
effort and sending clock...You make the effort and some of the mass market
companies do not. With plants, anything can happen and does, in my
experience, but you know what I meant:-)
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: GeneBush <genebush@otherside.com>
> Date: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 9:37 AM
>
> Hello Marge,
> One of my favorites (?) is when I order wholesale from a very large
> company. The plants arrive and are potted up. All looks fine and when I
> receive an order from a customer I ship ...before blooms in most cases.
> When the customer plants it in the garden and then 3 months later calls
or
> writes. "Gene, can't you tell the blankety-blankety difference between
red
> and white?" They sent the wrong species or cultivar. I have no way of
> knowing until the bloom here in the display beds.
> Seeds do get crossed up from the best of companies, but usually less
often
> than with live plants.
> Before I print up my catalog I send the text out to three different
people
> to check the botanical and the descriptions I have written. Corrections
are
> made and then reread. Guess what? I will still find minor (hopefully)
> mistakes we have all missed... after the catalog is printed, of course.
> Am I making excuses? Not really... I hope. Just all is never as simple
as
> it appears from the outside. There is no excuse however, for receiving
> poorly treated plants or value less than what was paid.
> Gene Bush Southern Indiana Zone 6a Munchkin Nursery
> around the woods - around the world
> genebush@otherside.com http://www.munchkinnursery.com
>
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> > From: Marge Talt <mtalt@clark.net>
> > Subject: Re: mislabeled plants
> > Date: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 3:47 AM
> >
> > I agree that it's time for you to find a new plant source! Taxonomy is
a
> > tough one, to be sure, but for relatively common plants like the ones
> > you're listing, there really isn't any excuse! I do a fair amount of
> > searching the net for plants and it always interests me to see the many
> > different spellings and capitalizations used for what is surely the
same
> > plant amongst different nurseries....but to get those colors wrong as
> well
> > as completely different species....no excuse but sloppiness! And, what
a
> > disappointment ...been there - done that...
> >
> > Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
> > mtalt@clark.net
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> >
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> > > From: jeanne latta <jplatta@yahoo.com>
> > > Date: Monday, June 07, 1999 6:16 PM
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
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