Re: bad experience

I bought 2 plants last year from a local nursery and both were incorrectly
labeled. Wrecked my "black and gold" color scheme for that garden! Happens a
lot less with mail order for me.

Diann

> -----Original Message-----
> From: PRIMROSES [s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU]On Behalf Of
> Susan Campanini
> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 5:07 PM
> To: shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
> Subject: [SG] bad experience
>
>
>         If shipped dead plants, I would definitely contact the company.
> However, I did have a disappointing experience this year with Burpee (the
> company that has just taken over Heronswood) and I didn't contact them
> because it seemed like such a megabusiness that I figured it
> wouldn't do any
> good and I'd learned my lesson anyway ...
>         I have ordered perennials by mail order in the past from many
> excellent sources with few problems.  Lately, my local sources
> have improved
> and I haven't done much mail order.  However, this year I got a catalogue
> from Burpee (from whom I'd only ordered packets of seeds,
> satisfactorially,
> previously) in the winter showing wonderful glossies of annual starts of
> plants I thought I couldn't find locally at such a good price.
>         First of all, we had a very early spring in Illinois and
> I called to
> ask when the shipment would arrive because I was ready to plant
> sooner than
> expected.  It's a big company and nothing can be done about predetermined
> schedules.  If the computer says May 15 in Illinois is the last
> frost date,
> there's no arguing with it.  So I waited a long time and it was hot by the
> time they shipped of course.
>         And then there were the other problems. Well, the double impatiens
> were all mislabeled, only one of the bicolor lisianthus is
> bicolor, and the
> gazanias were two tiny to survive. I wound up buying replacements locally,
> of course.  I will not try to buy annuals by mail again.
>
> Susan and David in Urbana, Illinois, zone 5b
>
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