On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 17:37:55 GMT, David Wright wrote:

On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 16:14:18 GMT, animaux
wrote:

But, has anyone seen the great section at Lowes where they mark down perfectly
good plants, but which are no longer in color and not saleable because most
people with no knowledge will not buy it if it doesn't have a flower?

At our house, Lowes a nasty word, given that at their first store in
San Antonio they cut down one of the area's fine, old oak trees to
make room for a few more parking spaces. Now *there* was a waste!

David

Oh, not just wasteful, most disgusting. With an operation that large they could
have used the twenty thousand dollars to have a bucket come remove the specimen
and transplant it elsewhere. Maybe even make it a donation to an arboretum or
the LadyBird Johnson Wildflower Center...and even BIGGER marketing bang for the
buck.

I'm so sorry to hear this. I suppose if I followed all the tenets I restrict
myself to, I'd never go anywhere, buy anything or DO anything! I suppose I
shouldn't punish the local garden center and praise the box store. It's pretty
hypocritical of myself. Then, we're all hypocrites now and then.

Victoria