MadCow writes
In message et, Sacha
Hubbard writes

Interestingly enough, David Poole came to see us this morning and tells us
that the national body representing nurseries and gcs says that 6 months is
the outer limit for guarantee. They figure that a plant has had plenty of
time to be taken home, planted and live or die by then!


What about bulbs?
Last autumn I bought some bulbs labelled "Scilla non-scriptus" with a
label clearly showing blue flowers. I was expecting wild-type
bluebells, deep blue, scented and with the top of the inflorescence
arching over.
What came up this spring was Spanish bluebells in a nasty shade of
pink. By the time they flowered they'd already offset into lots of tiny
bulbils that'll take years to eradicate.
I wished I'd kept the packet so that I could storm back to the GC and
complain - of course they just retail this stuff and don't know what's
in the packet, but their supplier deserves to be eaten alive by slugs.

Agree with you absolutely there, the GC should refund.
Equally with my Lychnis coronaria alba seeds - there's no way any
mistreatment of mine could have turned the white flowers carmine!
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Kay