RE: mom & pop nurseries
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: RE: mom & pop nurseries
- From: C*@emotors.com
- Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 09:38:07 -0500
No kidding! Just a couple weeks ago, I was wandering through one of these
"big chains" and happened to notice the part-timer dragging a watering hose
directly over some crysanthemums practically destroying them (although, I'm
sure he did since I quickly looked away disgusted while telling one of my
little girls about how careless he was being).
Craig Wallace
craig.wallace@emotors.com
Brighton, Illinois
Zone 5 (old zone)
"I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose, I would always greet it in a
garden." -Ruth Stout
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> From: lowery@teamzeon.com[SMTP:lowery@teamzeon.com]
> Reply To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Sent: Monday, May 24, 1999 8:53 AM
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: mom & pop nurseries
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> Valerie Lowery@ZEON
> 05/24/99 09:53 AM
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> Has anyone else noticed that if you don't get the bedding plants as soon
> as
> they come off of the truck they won't be worth a plug nickel a week later?
> These big chains hire part-time kids to look over the garden center and no
> one knows anything about stocking, care, or anything. I've seen shade
> plants out baking in full sun. Plants so overgrown that they look sickly.
> Things mislabeled, in sore need of watering, or even through blooming for
> the year but still at full price. Not worth my money!
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> The mom-n-pop's know that if they don't keep their stock fresh, they must
> eat the cost. Not only that, but the people actually know what they are
> selling and how to take care of it. Since I've gone beyond the gaudy,
> overbred petunias and the pom-pom marigolds, I like the smaller nurseries
> for the "good stuff". And I'm willing to pay the extra premium for the
> healthy plants.
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> Val in KY
> zone 6a
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