It would be a lot better for you and the plants if you could manage to wait till
the fall. It does seem such a waste. Maybe then, you can mention it here again
and either another person or people would be interested in paying what you'd pay
for plants of that size so you can replace them with larger plants.

I find it pretty cheesy of Red Barn to pass the buck to the vendor. In the
fall, I'd be interested in the plants, as would others, I'm sure.


That way you get help to grunt them out, they survive, you get a bit more than
just replacement with baby plants.

V


On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 20:22:57 GMT, c (Scott Harper) wrote:

The folks at Red Barn say they have never heard of a Silverado Sage
growing beyond its 4x4 size. They said that when I bought these plants
(3-4 years ago) that Silverado was a brand new cultivar, and may not
have been very pure. Also, the same distributor that brings them
Silverado handles other full sized varieties, so mislabeling is a
definite possibility.

They've offered to "swap" me out for new plants. I told them I didn't
still have my original receipt, but I did still have the (1 gal)
containers. So they offered to give me 4 new 1 gallon plants. I told
them I was a little disappointed to have to start over with such a small
plant, and they said they'd credit the price of the 1 gal plants against
3 gal plants if I would rather do that.

The only big issue is that I have to bring them the old plants to swap
with. These things are way too big for me to dig out and transplant in
such a way that they'd survive. But they said it doesn't matter, just
yank them out (and let them die) -- they just need something to use for
proof of exchange... Seems like an awful waste...


scott