Re: annuals for Gene/ nurseries

In a message dated 11/10/02 8:54:09 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
genebush@otherside.com writes:


> certainly doing well enough. Be it good or bad, I an relate a local reaction
> to the big new Wal Mart Super store near here. 


It might also be news to know that HD is moving into garden centers.  The 
three test stores are in the Atlanta area.  I don't know what this means to 
any of us but their press release in a nursery owner magazine stated that 
they will be staffing with horticulturists.  Maybe they will swell up 
sufficiently and topple over one day.  From my family's retired point of view 
they have made a tremendous difference in the way local construction 
companies do business.  No delivery, no credit, no road salesmen.  Lower 
prices (not always) for the local contractor and passing on the services to 
that contractor so he ends up giving you higher prices.  Thinking this 
through you will see the lower HD (and similar companies) costs make higher 
cost to you in the end, or significantly more time cost and labor cost.   
They have destroyed all but two local suppliers (building materials) in my 
area which is just shy of 1,000,000 population in three connected counties.  
I expect the garden centers are going to be kept in a turmoil also.  The 
local business person still has a place if he can get his message around.  We 
still have many local perennial growers though they move into seasonal stuff 
as the year goes by, pumpkins, Christmas trees, etc.  HD does not do water 
gardens, stone work, design, and persists in bad advice so there is still a 
place for local business.  Also, publications spread the word on better and 
newer plants, especially shrubs that do well in your area which HD never 
stocks, another place to be if local. 

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4 

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