RE: Today's purchases > Labels
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  • Subject: RE: Today's purchases > Labels
  • From: &* M* <1*@rewrite.hort.net>
  • Date: Sun, 3 May 2015 07:38:14 -0400

Graham ,

I agree, it’s sad. Another tell-tale as to the direction the gardening industry is headed is mulch. Here, all the ads and even the bag labels refer simply to the color – who cares what’s in the bag? 

 

I rarely get to HD as they closed the one near me years ago, but I do frequent Menards and sometimes Lowes. They both do a reasonably good job as far as big box stores go as to variety & labeling. However, what is terribly disappointing to me is this:

The city I live in has a pop of 256,496 (county is 363,014). Every year the newspapers run a “contest” in which people vote for their favorite restaurant, hardware store, grocery, whatever.  A local nursery won it for 10 years running but then he went out of business.  Last year, voted as the best nursery, was Menards. Really? 

 

Kitty

 

From: owner-perennials@hort.net [mailto:owner-perennials@hort.net] On Behalf Of Graham Rice
Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2015 6:47 AM
To: perennials@hort.net
Subject: Re: Today's purchases

 

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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