UK gardening - Mail order - misleading pics

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Mail order - misleading pics

JohnOGroats

2005-07-29, 11:21 am

Jaques d'Alltrades Wrote:
> The message Q8z1fxCWIQ6CFwiZ@scarboro.demon.co.uk
> from Kay kay@scarboro.demon.co.uk contains these words:
> -
> Just as a matter of curiosity - why did you start a new thread for
> your
> response?-
>
> Must be an idiosyncrasy of Turncoat - all the posts have arrived in
> the
> same thread here.
>
> --
> Rusty
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> http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

NB the cutting arrived as a 1" plug-plant - two months later after
three - repottings, feeding tender care etc... it is in flower! Too
late in the season really - my comments are more out of frustration
really!

I also bought a fringed aztec - beautiful picture I now worry that it
will not live up to the illustration!

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JohnOGroats

Kay

2005-07-29, 5:21 pm

In article <JohnOGroats.1sxpke@gardenbanter.co.uk>, JohnOGroats
<JohnOGroats.1sxpke@gardenbanter.co.uk> writes
>
>
>
>NB the cutting arrived as a 1" plug-plant - two months later after
>three - repottings, feeding tender care etc... it is in flower! Too
>late in the season really - my comments are more out of frustration
>really!

You should be able to get a refund. No amount of bad cultivation is
going to turn a blue geranium pink.

I'm considering having a go at Chiltern for some Lychnis coronaria
'alba' which I bought last year and which have just flowered - every
single one of them that dreadful magenta.
>
>I also bought a fringed aztec - beautiful picture I now worry that it
>will not live up to the illustration!
>
It's a lot of hassle, but it's a good idea to look things up in a
gardening book - they don't have the same incentive as a nursery or seed
company to make the thing look good.

I've just been looking through Dobies autumn catalogue and noticed how
they put several of something together for effect - there's one pic of
about half a dozen of the 'papillion' type hippeastrum, but for your 9
quid you get just a single bulb; and a magnificent mixture of at least
half a dozen different coloured hellebores - the standard pack just has
3. Allow for planting distances and there's no way you're going to be
able to match their picture, even if you bought two or 3 times the basic
order.
--
Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"

martin

2005-07-30, 8:21 am

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 20:13:23 +0100, Kay <kay@scarboro.demon.co.uk>
wrote:

>In article <JohnOGroats.1sxpke@gardenbanter.co.uk>, JohnOGroats
><JohnOGroats.1sxpke@gardenbanter.co.uk> writes
>
>You should be able to get a refund. No amount of bad cultivation is
>going to turn a blue geranium pink.

One packet of the seeds RHS sent out were neither those described nor
those ordered. Nobody is perfect.
--
Martin

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