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On Sun, 06 Jun 2004 16:38:28 +0100, Sacha wrote: The OP may well be genuine but I don't think many people buy something of that name without getting a clue as to its tendencies. 'grand' and 'goliath' alone would be a hint. To be fair, 'grandiflora' refers to the size of the blooms, not the tree. (I looked it up :-) 'goliath', however, does seem fairly obvious. Agreed but not a lot of small trees have very large flowers on - or not that I can think of at present! No doubt somebody will come up with a list of hundreds! 'goliath' is a dead give away. We do find that here, most people do ask, if in doubt but then there's usually someone around who can help them. I think one of the problems with some gc's is the 'supermarket' attitude that is taken. The only person who can actually be found is the person on the check out....... -- Sacha (remove the weeds after garden to email _________________ 'Twouldn't surprise me if someone finds a lichen 'goliath' !! Many names seem to be gross exaggerations. Rose 'maigold' however begins full bloom during April and throughout May~~Well named and scented too. A local G.C, rather nicely, has an obvious and well used selection of RHS encyclopaedias and booklets on display. [Not for sale] I liked the ref. to the Queen and King Holly. How many must have been caught out? |
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On Sun, 06 Jun 2004 16:38:28 +0100, Sacha wrote: The OP may well be genuine but I don't think many people buy something of that name without getting a clue as to its tendencies. 'grand' and 'goliath' alone would be a hint. To be fair, 'grandiflora' refers to the size of the blooms, not the tree. (I looked it up :-) 'goliath', however, does seem fairly obvious. Agreed but not a lot of small trees have very large flowers on - or not that I can think of at present! No doubt somebody will come up with a list of hundreds! 'goliath' is a dead give away. We do find that here, most people do ask, if in doubt but then there's usually someone around who can help them. I think one of the problems with some gc's is the 'supermarket' attitude that is taken. The only person who can actually be found is the person on the check out....... -- Sacha (remove the weeds after garden to email _________________ 'Twouldn't surprise me if someone finds a lichen 'goliath' !! Many names seem to be gross exaggerations. Rose 'maigold' however begins full bloom during April and throughout May~~Well named and scented too. A local G.C, rather nicely, has an obvious and well used selection of RHS encyclopaedias and booklets on display. [Not for sale] I liked the ref. to the Queen and King Holly. How many must have been caught out? |
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magnolia grandiflora goliath - help me please
On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 16:56:42 +0100, Sacha
wrote: "Frogleg" wrote: To be fair, 'grandiflora' refers to the size of the blooms, not the tree. (I looked it up :-) 'goliath', however, does seem fairly obvious. Agreed but not a lot of small trees have very large flowers on - or not that I can think of at present! No doubt somebody will come up with a list of hundreds! 'goliath' is a dead give away. We do find that here, most people do ask, if in doubt but then there's usually someone around who can help them. I think one of the problems with some gc's is the 'supermarket' attitude that is taken. The only person who can actually be found is the person on the check out....... Don't you think much of gardening is learning from mistakes? One starts by thinking "gardening" means putting a seed or plant in dirt and watching it grow, and moves on from there. Many don't even know to ask questions, or which questions to ask. If their experience is with the Big Box stores, they know questions are futile. |
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magnolia grandiflora goliath - help me please
NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.134.108.165
Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk 1086791885 18814 217.134.108.165 (9 Jun 2004 14:38:05 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Jun 2004 14:38:05 GMT X-Complaints-To: User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.0.0.1309 Path: kermit!newsfeed-west.nntpserver.com!newsfeed-east.nntpserver.com!nntpserver.com!newshosting.com !nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsf eed.fjserv.net!diablo.theplanet.net!news.theplanet .net!not-for-mail Xref: kermit uk.rec.gardening:209099 On 9/6/04 11:55, in article , "Frogleg" wrote: On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 15:56:14 +0100, Sacha wrote: It doesn't become me very well as a Nurseryman's wife to criticise some garden centres - not all by any means - but the prices they charge, the lack of advice they give and the 'care' given to the plants which are bought in and sold off just like any supermarket product, fills us with real horror and even amazement. One gc is selling Pelargoniums for over £4.00 when we are charging £1.80 for the same size! But the customer isn't paying for the plant but for acres and acres of expensive glass housing few plants (and all of those bog standard) but hundreds of other products, such as candles, soap, writing paper, cards, sweets, jam, garden furniture, barbecues, water feechas etc. I suppose this is an international disease. What you describe is *exactly* what has happened to a local garden center. When I first went there, they raised nearly all their own plants, the staff was knowledgable and helpful, and they didn't require ID for checks (cheques) because "gardeners don't pass bad checks." :-) And they sold plants, seeds, and garden supplies. Now they sell the kitch you mention, the quality of plants has declined, the (inflation-adjusted) prices increased, and they have expanded with several huge stores in nearby towns. They have taken a good name and past reputation and turned them into a shoddy franchise. A nursery in Jersey was just as you describe and then did just what you describe. They avoided going broke by the skin of their teeth but it really was a close call. When I took my husband there on one of our visits he nearly fainted at their prices. Jersey is a finance centre and some of the residents are rich but even so.........one friend of ours combines a long week end trip to England with a visit to us and takes home a (large) car load of plants and still reckons he gets the best of the deal. ;-) -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove the weeds after garden to email me) |
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magnolia grandiflora goliath - help me please
On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 16:56:42 +0100, Sacha
wrote: "Frogleg" wrote: To be fair, 'grandiflora' refers to the size of the blooms, not the tree. (I looked it up :-) 'goliath', however, does seem fairly obvious. Agreed but not a lot of small trees have very large flowers on - or not that I can think of at present! No doubt somebody will come up with a list of hundreds! 'goliath' is a dead give away. We do find that here, most people do ask, if in doubt but then there's usually someone around who can help them. I think one of the problems with some gc's is the 'supermarket' attitude that is taken. The only person who can actually be found is the person on the check out....... Don't you think much of gardening is learning from mistakes? One starts by thinking "gardening" means putting a seed or plant in dirt and watching it grow, and moves on from there. Many don't even know to ask questions, or which questions to ask. If their experience is with the Big Box stores, they know questions are futile. |
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magnolia grandiflora goliath - help me please
On 8/6/04 12:26, in article ,
"Frogleg" wrote: On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 16:56:42 +0100, Sacha wrote: "Frogleg" wrote: To be fair, 'grandiflora' refers to the size of the blooms, not the tree. (I looked it up :-) 'goliath', however, does seem fairly obvious. Agreed but not a lot of small trees have very large flowers on - or not that I can think of at present! No doubt somebody will come up with a list of hundreds! 'goliath' is a dead give away. We do find that here, most people do ask, if in doubt but then there's usually someone around who can help them. I think one of the problems with some gc's is the 'supermarket' attitude that is taken. The only person who can actually be found is the person on the check out....... Don't you think much of gardening is learning from mistakes? One starts by thinking "gardening" means putting a seed or plant in dirt and watching it grow, and moves on from there. Many don't even know to ask questions, or which questions to ask. If their experience is with the Big Box stores, they know questions are futile. That's pretty much what I said and a few of us have pointed out to the OP that her mistake is only one of many all gardeners make at some time. How many of us have put the wrong plant in the wrong place and moved it around a few times - almost all, I should think! I just think it's a shame that the Magnolia one might have been an expensive one and hope things work out better than she fears. When I moved into my last house a previous owner had planted a lovely blue Cedar in what was not a huge garden, probably because next door did have a huge garden and a huge blue Cedar. The owners of my house hadn't taken into account that when their tree was fully grown nobody could have got in the front door, past its spread branches, so it fell to my unhappy lot to cut it down, something I do hate doing. It doesn't become me very well as a Nurseryman's wife to criticise some garden centres - not all by any means - but the prices they charge, the lack of advice they give and the 'care' given to the plants which are bought in and sold off just like any supermarket product, fills us with real horror and even amazement. One gc is selling Pelargoniums for over £4.00 when we are charging £1.80 for the same size! But the customer isn't paying for the plant but for acres and acres of expensive glass housing few plants (and all of those bog standard) but hundreds of other products, such as candles, soap, writing paper, cards, sweets, jam, garden furniture, barbecues, water feechas etc. AND we hear that they are in financial trouble and have had to lay off staff. The latter applies to another not far away and their answer has been to do yet another price hike which seems to have resulted in fewer customers and less profits to pay off the expensive bank loan the extension to house all the foregoing, cost. The plants? Oh, they're stuck out the back somewhere. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove the weeds after garden to email me) |
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magnolia grandiflora goliath - help me please
NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.134.108.165
Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk 1086791885 18814 217.134.108.165 (9 Jun 2004 14:38:05 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Jun 2004 14:38:05 GMT X-Complaints-To: User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.0.0.1309 Path: kermit!newsfeed-west.nntpserver.com!newsfeed-east.nntpserver.com!nntpserver.com!newshosting.com !nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsf eed.fjserv.net!diablo.theplanet.net!news.theplanet .net!not-for-mail Xref: kermit uk.rec.gardening:209099 On 9/6/04 11:55, in article , "Frogleg" wrote: On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 15:56:14 +0100, Sacha wrote: It doesn't become me very well as a Nurseryman's wife to criticise some garden centres - not all by any means - but the prices they charge, the lack of advice they give and the 'care' given to the plants which are bought in and sold off just like any supermarket product, fills us with real horror and even amazement. One gc is selling Pelargoniums for over £4.00 when we are charging £1.80 for the same size! But the customer isn't paying for the plant but for acres and acres of expensive glass housing few plants (and all of those bog standard) but hundreds of other products, such as candles, soap, writing paper, cards, sweets, jam, garden furniture, barbecues, water feechas etc. I suppose this is an international disease. What you describe is *exactly* what has happened to a local garden center. When I first went there, they raised nearly all their own plants, the staff was knowledgable and helpful, and they didn't require ID for checks (cheques) because "gardeners don't pass bad checks." :-) And they sold plants, seeds, and garden supplies. Now they sell the kitch you mention, the quality of plants has declined, the (inflation-adjusted) prices increased, and they have expanded with several huge stores in nearby towns. They have taken a good name and past reputation and turned them into a shoddy franchise. A nursery in Jersey was just as you describe and then did just what you describe. They avoided going broke by the skin of their teeth but it really was a close call. When I took my husband there on one of our visits he nearly fainted at their prices. Jersey is a finance centre and some of the residents are rich but even so.........one friend of ours combines a long week end trip to England with a visit to us and takes home a (large) car load of plants and still reckons he gets the best of the deal. ;-) -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove the weeds after garden to email me) |
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magnolia grandiflora goliath - help me please
On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 16:56:42 +0100, Sacha
wrote: "Frogleg" wrote: To be fair, 'grandiflora' refers to the size of the blooms, not the tree. (I looked it up :-) 'goliath', however, does seem fairly obvious. Agreed but not a lot of small trees have very large flowers on - or not that I can think of at present! No doubt somebody will come up with a list of hundreds! 'goliath' is a dead give away. We do find that here, most people do ask, if in doubt but then there's usually someone around who can help them. I think one of the problems with some gc's is the 'supermarket' attitude that is taken. The only person who can actually be found is the person on the check out....... Don't you think much of gardening is learning from mistakes? One starts by thinking "gardening" means putting a seed or plant in dirt and watching it grow, and moves on from there. Many don't even know to ask questions, or which questions to ask. If their experience is with the Big Box stores, they know questions are futile. |
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On 8/6/04 12:26, in article ,
"Frogleg" wrote: On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 16:56:42 +0100, Sacha wrote: "Frogleg" wrote: To be fair, 'grandiflora' refers to the size of the blooms, not the tree. (I looked it up :-) 'goliath', however, does seem fairly obvious. Agreed but not a lot of small trees have very large flowers on - or not that I can think of at present! No doubt somebody will come up with a list of hundreds! 'goliath' is a dead give away. We do find that here, most people do ask, if in doubt but then there's usually someone around who can help them. I think one of the problems with some gc's is the 'supermarket' attitude that is taken. The only person who can actually be found is the person on the check out....... Don't you think much of gardening is learning from mistakes? One starts by thinking "gardening" means putting a seed or plant in dirt and watching it grow, and moves on from there. Many don't even know to ask questions, or which questions to ask. If their experience is with the Big Box stores, they know questions are futile. That's pretty much what I said and a few of us have pointed out to the OP that her mistake is only one of many all gardeners make at some time. How many of us have put the wrong plant in the wrong place and moved it around a few times - almost all, I should think! I just think it's a shame that the Magnolia one might have been an expensive one and hope things work out better than she fears. When I moved into my last house a previous owner had planted a lovely blue Cedar in what was not a huge garden, probably because next door did have a huge garden and a huge blue Cedar. The owners of my house hadn't taken into account that when their tree was fully grown nobody could have got in the front door, past its spread branches, so it fell to my unhappy lot to cut it down, something I do hate doing. It doesn't become me very well as a Nurseryman's wife to criticise some garden centres - not all by any means - but the prices they charge, the lack of advice they give and the 'care' given to the plants which are bought in and sold off just like any supermarket product, fills us with real horror and even amazement. One gc is selling Pelargoniums for over £4.00 when we are charging £1.80 for the same size! But the customer isn't paying for the plant but for acres and acres of expensive glass housing few plants (and all of those bog standard) but hundreds of other products, such as candles, soap, writing paper, cards, sweets, jam, garden furniture, barbecues, water feechas etc. AND we hear that they are in financial trouble and have had to lay off staff. The latter applies to another not far away and their answer has been to do yet another price hike which seems to have resulted in fewer customers and less profits to pay off the expensive bank loan the extension to house all the foregoing, cost. The plants? Oh, they're stuck out the back somewhere. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove the weeds after garden to email me) |
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NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.134.108.165
Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk 1086791885 18814 217.134.108.165 (9 Jun 2004 14:38:05 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Jun 2004 14:38:05 GMT X-Complaints-To: User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.0.0.1309 Path: kermit!newsfeed-west.nntpserver.com!newsfeed-east.nntpserver.com!nntpserver.com!newshosting.com !nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsf eed.fjserv.net!diablo.theplanet.net!news.theplanet .net!not-for-mail Xref: kermit uk.rec.gardening:209099 On 9/6/04 11:55, in article , "Frogleg" wrote: On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 15:56:14 +0100, Sacha wrote: It doesn't become me very well as a Nurseryman's wife to criticise some garden centres - not all by any means - but the prices they charge, the lack of advice they give and the 'care' given to the plants which are bought in and sold off just like any supermarket product, fills us with real horror and even amazement. One gc is selling Pelargoniums for over £4.00 when we are charging £1.80 for the same size! But the customer isn't paying for the plant but for acres and acres of expensive glass housing few plants (and all of those bog standard) but hundreds of other products, such as candles, soap, writing paper, cards, sweets, jam, garden furniture, barbecues, water feechas etc. I suppose this is an international disease. What you describe is *exactly* what has happened to a local garden center. When I first went there, they raised nearly all their own plants, the staff was knowledgable and helpful, and they didn't require ID for checks (cheques) because "gardeners don't pass bad checks." :-) And they sold plants, seeds, and garden supplies. Now they sell the kitch you mention, the quality of plants has declined, the (inflation-adjusted) prices increased, and they have expanded with several huge stores in nearby towns. They have taken a good name and past reputation and turned them into a shoddy franchise. A nursery in Jersey was just as you describe and then did just what you describe. They avoided going broke by the skin of their teeth but it really was a close call. When I took my husband there on one of our visits he nearly fainted at their prices. Jersey is a finance centre and some of the residents are rich but even so.........one friend of ours combines a long week end trip to England with a visit to us and takes home a (large) car load of plants and still reckons he gets the best of the deal. ;-) -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove the weeds after garden to email me) |
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On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 16:56:42 +0100, Sacha
wrote: "Frogleg" wrote: To be fair, 'grandiflora' refers to the size of the blooms, not the tree. (I looked it up :-) 'goliath', however, does seem fairly obvious. Agreed but not a lot of small trees have very large flowers on - or not that I can think of at present! No doubt somebody will come up with a list of hundreds! 'goliath' is a dead give away. We do find that here, most people do ask, if in doubt but then there's usually someone around who can help them. I think one of the problems with some gc's is the 'supermarket' attitude that is taken. The only person who can actually be found is the person on the check out....... Don't you think much of gardening is learning from mistakes? One starts by thinking "gardening" means putting a seed or plant in dirt and watching it grow, and moves on from there. Many don't even know to ask questions, or which questions to ask. If their experience is with the Big Box stores, they know questions are futile. |
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On 8/6/04 12:26, in article ,
"Frogleg" wrote: On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 16:56:42 +0100, Sacha wrote: "Frogleg" wrote: To be fair, 'grandiflora' refers to the size of the blooms, not the tree. (I looked it up :-) 'goliath', however, does seem fairly obvious. Agreed but not a lot of small trees have very large flowers on - or not that I can think of at present! No doubt somebody will come up with a list of hundreds! 'goliath' is a dead give away. We do find that here, most people do ask, if in doubt but then there's usually someone around who can help them. I think one of the problems with some gc's is the 'supermarket' attitude that is taken. The only person who can actually be found is the person on the check out....... Don't you think much of gardening is learning from mistakes? One starts by thinking "gardening" means putting a seed or plant in dirt and watching it grow, and moves on from there. Many don't even know to ask questions, or which questions to ask. If their experience is with the Big Box stores, they know questions are futile. That's pretty much what I said and a few of us have pointed out to the OP that her mistake is only one of many all gardeners make at some time. How many of us have put the wrong plant in the wrong place and moved it around a few times - almost all, I should think! I just think it's a shame that the Magnolia one might have been an expensive one and hope things work out better than she fears. When I moved into my last house a previous owner had planted a lovely blue Cedar in what was not a huge garden, probably because next door did have a huge garden and a huge blue Cedar. The owners of my house hadn't taken into account that when their tree was fully grown nobody could have got in the front door, past its spread branches, so it fell to my unhappy lot to cut it down, something I do hate doing. It doesn't become me very well as a Nurseryman's wife to criticise some garden centres - not all by any means - but the prices they charge, the lack of advice they give and the 'care' given to the plants which are bought in and sold off just like any supermarket product, fills us with real horror and even amazement. One gc is selling Pelargoniums for over £4.00 when we are charging £1.80 for the same size! But the customer isn't paying for the plant but for acres and acres of expensive glass housing few plants (and all of those bog standard) but hundreds of other products, such as candles, soap, writing paper, cards, sweets, jam, garden furniture, barbecues, water feechas etc. AND we hear that they are in financial trouble and have had to lay off staff. The latter applies to another not far away and their answer has been to do yet another price hike which seems to have resulted in fewer customers and less profits to pay off the expensive bank loan the extension to house all the foregoing, cost. The plants? Oh, they're stuck out the back somewhere. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove the weeds after garden to email me) |
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