Re: Today's purchases
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  • Subject: Re: Today's purchases
  • From: G* R* <d*@rewrite.hort.net>
  • Date: Sun, 3 May 2015 06:46:34 -0400
We took a look at the plants at Home Depot yesterday. For the first time, the vast majority had vague generic labels. All the different hostas, for example, were labelled Hosta hybrid; the perennial salvias were labelled Salvia hybrid.

OK, sometimes in Lowes and HD you can't trust the labels anyway. But for HD simply to decide not to bother. That's poor.

Graham
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On May 2, 2015, at 7:25 PM, Christopher P. Lindsey wrote:

This morning we went out to the local hardware store to see what they
were offering by way of plants.

We picked up a whole bunch of annuals, but I also got a decent haul
of perennials at only $2.54 for quart-sized pots!

Here's the list for today:

  2 Geranium sanguineum var. striatum
  3 Calamintha grandiflora 'Variegata'
  1 Prunella 'Summer Daze'
  2 Astilbe x arendsii 'Amethyst'
  1 Astilbe simplicifolia 'Hennie Graafland'
  2 Astible x arendsii 'Fanal'
  1 Sempervivum 'Carmen'
  1 Sempervivum 'Commander Hay'
  1 Sempervivum 'Kalinda'
  2 Alchemilla sericata 'Goldstrike'
  1 Sedum hakonense 'Chocolate Ball'
  2 Armeria maritima 'Nifty Thrifty'
  1 Hosta 'Wide Brim'
  1 Hosta 'June'
  1 Ajuga reptans 'Mint Chip'
  1 Dicentra spectabilis 'Alba'
  3 Athyrium 'Ghost'

Some of these are replacements that died before, fillers for holes
in the garden, or accents for containers.  $2.54 is cheaper than a
lot of the annual accent plants out there...

Chris

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