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Rant--why don't nurseries label things better?
animaux wrote:
: On Sun, 9 Mar 2003 07:18:41 -0700, "Dwayne" wrote: : (...) :Lowes, Wal Mart Etc. are all fine places to buy your plants. The only :problem with them is that those located in my town might have plants that :aren't for my area. I bought Thompson grapes one year and had them planted. :Then took a pruning class at the university there. At the College I was :told that Thompson grapes would not survive in that state. They never made :it to the next summer. : (...) : People around here started to demand Lowes and Home Depot and other box stores : have a Texas native plant table or ten. It took them a year, but they got it : together and started shopping the local growers. The labels are excellent, : giving cultural information, plant size at maturity, taxonomic information and : Heat Zone information (which is key down here). That's great! Whenever I venture outside of Illinois to visit relatives in Texas, I'm always struck by the fact that's it's like a whole other botany ;-) One of the problems with large chains is that they don't pay enough attention to what grows well locally and tend to sell a generic selection of plants for a give zone. There's a move here, too, towards offering more of our tallgrass prairie native forbs and grasses, most of which are much better-suited than furriners to the alternating deluges and droughts of our tropically hot summers, our high winds, and our freeze/thaw, sometimes Arctic, winters without reliable snow cover. Cheers! -- Karen The Garden Gate http://garden-gate.prairienet.org ================================================== ================= "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." ^and cats -- Cicero ================================================== ================= On the Web since 1994 Forbes Best of Web 2002 |
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Rant--why don't nurseries label things better?
shadow wrote:
....snippage.. : There are actually more than a few articles written on bottom posting vs : top posting. Bottom posting is generally accepted as the preferred : method as it makes the thread easier to read. There are proponents of : the top-posting method, but they are vastly outnumered. If you'd like to : have a look, here is a pretty good discussion on it. : http://www.dickalba.demon.co.uk/usen.../faq_topp.html The top- vs. bottom-posting 'debate' is right up there with the debates of the Small-endians vs. the Big-endians and MIF vs. TIF. Only muich, much less genteel ;-) Of all the pointless USENET discussion (and flamewar) topics over the years, this one is probably my pick for Most Pointless. I don't know if this topic holds the USENET cumulative lifetime Longest Thread record but it's probably in the Top Ten. Cheers! -- Karen The Garden Gate http://garden-gate.prairienet.org ================================================== ================= "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." ^and cats -- Cicero ================================================== ================= On the Web since 1994 Forbes Best of Web 2002 |
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Rant--why don't nurseries label things better?
The top- vs. bottom-posting 'debate' is right up there with the debates of the Small-endians vs. the Big-endians and MIF vs. TIF. Only muich, much less genteel ;-) Agreed. I guess I'm just still feeling the February blahs (lasting well into March). It took a pick-axe to clear away enough ice away from the doors of my baby-barn so that I could get at my seed trays, etc. I started a few peppers on the weekend, even though I'm still looking at my 5 foot potentillia still buried under snow, and my driveway which could double as a skating rink. Thanks for the nudge :-) -- Shadow Made In Canada, eh. |
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Rant--why don't nurseries label things better?
In the States, they started using labels ON the container. Even 4" pots
were being labelled. I have no idea what happened. This is OK but printed pots have to have a very large quantity and are beyond all but the very large producer. Stick on also good till the slugs/snails/ and other bugs find they like the taste of paper. I tried that with price tickets and had many chewed in less than a week. Slug pellets you say. well many people are against them and will avoid you if they see them -- David Hill Abacus Nurseries www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk |
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Rant--why don't nurseries label things better?
On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 14:30:58 GMT, wrote:
In Tsu Dho Nimh wrote: Haul all the vines to the checkout, ask to speak to the owner ... and point out that having clearly different vines all labelled the same has just put his nursery on your do-not-buy list. Then abandon the plants and go somewhere where they do label them. You live in a city, don't you? You wouldn't burn your bridges like that in a smaller town. But you also would likely be able to talk to the owner without having to resort to Rambo tactics to get their attention. "Teaching them a lesson" is very attractive sometimes. A kinder, gentler approach ("why do all these different plants have the same label?") may mark you as a knowledgable gardner, prospective good customer, and even prod the business to be more careful about labeling. Who knows? Maybe they came from the Plant Factory this way. |
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Yeah. Why shoot the messenger?
The plants came mislabeled from the wholesaler. The local dealer has no control over that. Tsu Dho Nimh just like to carry on like a tantrum throwing prima-donna queen so he can be thrown out of stores and be banned for life!!!! They probably see Rambolina coming from miles away!!! Yo, where's the pansies? Frogleg wrote in message ... On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 14:30:58 GMT, wrote: In Tsu Dho Nimh wrote: Haul all the vines to the checkout, ask to speak to the owner ... and point out that having clearly different vines all labelled the same has just put his nursery on your do-not-buy list. Then abandon the plants and go somewhere where they do label them. You live in a city, don't you? You wouldn't burn your bridges like that in a smaller town. But you also would likely be able to talk to the owner without having to resort to Rambo tactics to get their attention. "Teaching them a lesson" is very attractive sometimes. A kinder, gentler approach ("why do all these different plants have the same label?") may mark you as a knowledgable gardner, prospective good customer, and even prod the business to be more careful about labeling. Who knows? Maybe they came from the Plant Factory this way. |
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Rant--why don't nurseries label things better?
When I was still drinking, over 20 years ago, I was banned from Howard Johnsons!
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 18:55:43 GMT, "Cereoid+10+" wrote: Yeah. Why shoot the messenger? The plants came mislabeled from the wholesaler. The local dealer has no control over that. Tsu Dho Nimh just like to carry on like a tantrum throwing prima-donna queen so he can be thrown out of stores and be banned for life!!!! They probably see Rambolina coming from miles away!!! Yo, where's the pansies? Frogleg wrote in message ... On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 14:30:58 GMT, wrote: In Tsu Dho Nimh wrote: Haul all the vines to the checkout, ask to speak to the owner ... and point out that having clearly different vines all labelled the same has just put his nursery on your do-not-buy list. Then abandon the plants and go somewhere where they do label them. You live in a city, don't you? You wouldn't burn your bridges like that in a smaller town. But you also would likely be able to talk to the owner without having to resort to Rambo tactics to get their attention. "Teaching them a lesson" is very attractive sometimes. A kinder, gentler approach ("why do all these different plants have the same label?") may mark you as a knowledgable gardner, prospective good customer, and even prod the business to be more careful about labeling. Who knows? Maybe they came from the Plant Factory this way. |
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So you're the one that put them out of business!!!!!!
There will be no Howard Johnsons on the US space station thanks to you. (If they ever build it.) animaux wrote in message ... When I was still drinking, over 20 years ago, I was banned from Howard Johnsons! On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 18:55:43 GMT, "Cereoid+10+" wrote: Yeah. Why shoot the messenger? The plants came mislabeled from the wholesaler. The local dealer has no control over that. Tsu Dho Nimh just like to carry on like a tantrum throwing prima-donna queen so he can be thrown out of stores and be banned for life!!!! They probably see Rambolina coming from miles away!!! Yo, where's the pansies? Frogleg wrote in message ... On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 14:30:58 GMT, wrote: In Tsu Dho Nimh wrote: Haul all the vines to the checkout, ask to speak to the owner ... and point out that having clearly different vines all labelled the same has just put his nursery on your do-not-buy list. Then abandon the plants and go somewhere where they do label them. You live in a city, don't you? You wouldn't burn your bridges like that in a smaller town. But you also would likely be able to talk to the owner without having to resort to Rambo tactics to get their attention. "Teaching them a lesson" is very attractive sometimes. A kinder, gentler approach ("why do all these different plants have the same label?") may mark you as a knowledgable gardner, prospective good customer, and even prod the business to be more careful about labeling. Who knows? Maybe they came from the Plant Factory this way. |
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Rant--why don't nurseries label things better?
In article , "Cereoid+10+"
wrote: Yeah. Why shoot the messenger? Because the word for "messenger" is also the word for "devil," vis, Malach, nu? -paghat -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/ |
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Rant--why don't nurseries label things better?
HA! Are the out of business? Who knew.
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 00:08:16 GMT, "Cereoid+10+" wrote: So you're the one that put them out of business!!!!!! There will be no Howard Johnsons on the US space station thanks to you. (If they ever build it.) animaux wrote in message .. . When I was still drinking, over 20 years ago, I was banned from Howard Johnsons! On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 18:55:43 GMT, "Cereoid+10+" wrote: Yeah. Why shoot the messenger? The plants came mislabeled from the wholesaler. The local dealer has no control over that. Tsu Dho Nimh just like to carry on like a tantrum throwing prima-donna queen so he can be thrown out of stores and be banned for life!!!! They probably see Rambolina coming from miles away!!! Yo, where's the pansies? Frogleg wrote in message ... On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 14:30:58 GMT, wrote: In Tsu Dho Nimh wrote: Haul all the vines to the checkout, ask to speak to the owner ... and point out that having clearly different vines all labelled the same has just put his nursery on your do-not-buy list. Then abandon the plants and go somewhere where they do label them. You live in a city, don't you? You wouldn't burn your bridges like that in a smaller town. But you also would likely be able to talk to the owner without having to resort to Rambo tactics to get their attention. "Teaching them a lesson" is very attractive sometimes. A kinder, gentler approach ("why do all these different plants have the same label?") may mark you as a knowledgable gardner, prospective good customer, and even prod the business to be more careful about labeling. Who knows? Maybe they came from the Plant Factory this way. |
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