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Jess N · 12-11-2009, 05:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Phil Gurr

"Charlie Pridham" wrote in message
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With container grown plants I think it makes little difference for a
hardy plant.
It certainly used to be the case that plants were moved/planted while
dormant when they were being lifted rootballed and sold but that was
before I started gardening!

When I did my training in the mid 1950's on a large nursery specialising in
herbaceous plants, the practise was to rootball the plants when lifted
around early April. Delphiniums, sidalceas, asters etc. were packed 12 to a
kipper box. Polyanthus (in flower) were packed 15 to a box, and there were
never any complaints about plants dying. The winter job was always to mend
the returnable kipper boxes!

Phil

I seem to have morphed the thread into something other than Argyranthemum!
Oops.

Looks like I might as well let my partner buy plants in flower then if he wants to after all!

Now I feel like having Kippers!

Thanks

Jess