Re: Tip for the day

My apologies for anyone who rushed out to Costco to buy bare root
perennials after I posted my wonderful "tip" about what a good deal they
were.  The bulbs are fine, but the bare root perennials (coreopsis and
hellebores) are terrible.  Oh well...

Nan

>Hey all of you who live in an area where there is a Costco store --
>
>I visited Costco yesterday and they have packaged bulbs and perennials for
>extremely good prices. A bag of 100 babiana bulbs was about $6 as were a
>bag of 70 gladiolus bulbs, a box of two hellebores (bareroot) and a box of
>four coreopsis "moonbeam" bare root.  There were also dahlias and canna for
>about the same price.  The bulbs and plants appeared to be of good quality.
>I was especially taken by a bag of mixed gladioulus, half of which were
>burgundy and the other half chartreuse!
>
>There was also a two volume set of books -- The Random House Book of Indoor
>and Greenhouse Plants by PHillips and Rix.  Each volume was $6.39 and
>though it is titled indoor and greenhouse plants, all the plants I saw are
>ones that we grow outside (where would you grow pittosporum or liquidamber
>in a greenhouse?).  Terrific photos of several thousand plants growing
>outside (not photos of them in the greenhouse), pretty good descriptions of
>plants, their origins, and their needs.
>
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Nan Sterman
San Diego County California
Sunset zone 24, USDA hardiness zone 10b or 11

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