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Chris S. wrote:
Wondering if anyone has experience in buying shrubs or perennials at a
place like lowes verses a nursery. The stuff I see at nurseries is
about
twice as expensive, but looks much healthier.
Should I stick with a nursery? Where do you buy plants at?
Too many variables.
It's not like Lowe's ships plants to all it's stores from some central
location. Each store is going to buy from some wholesale nurseries in
their general area. And are you talking about a nursery that grows what
you're buying (or do they specialize in other stuff), or do they buy
from a wholesaler, perhaps even the same wholesaler as Lowes?
And it may make a difference what day and time you go. If you're there
as they're unloading them from the truck, how well the staff takes care
of things is a non-issue, and the big issue becomes whether the nursery
that the truck came from treats the load to Lowes as being a dumpster,
or if they service that account as well as they service the other garden
centers in the area.
There are just too many variables, and those variables are different for
me than they are for you, or any other person in this group.
Think of it this way: Which is better? The burger at the TGI Fridays
near the mall, or the hamburger at a randomly picked joint in town on
the old highway? Some people will insist that the local diner is going
to have the better hamburger, but I have to tell you, I've been in some
diners with lousy hamburger, even if they were buying their beef from
the same wholesale butcher.
Anyone who gives you a definitive answer to your question is basing
their opinion on far too limited information considering how many Lowes
are out there, and how many nurseries are out there. Unless the
particular Lowes and the particular nursery you have in mind are the
same ones they have in mind, a definitive answer is an answer you don't
need.
--
Warren H.
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