Yes that told me @madpenguin my point really was that general retailers should only have live plants if they have any intention to look after them. And frequently they don't bother. I was stunned a few weeks back by racks upon rack of dried out bedding plants outside Wickes. Anyway...over and out
The local B&M is the same - racks and racks of half dead plants. They are supposedly all watered at 9am in the morning but I have gone in a few hours later and they are bone dry and the plants all wilted. Store manager does not care...……….it's the growers I feel sorry for - they must be getting paid peanuts if stores can put up with that amount of wastage every week. I reckon on my last visit, cloudy day and visited at midday, about 80% of the plants were past redemption. I was hard pressed to find one tray of bedding plants that was worth paying money for.
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Yes that told me @madpenguin my point really was that general retailers should only have live plants if they have any intention to look after them. And frequently they don't bother. I was stunned a few weeks back by racks upon rack of dried out bedding plants outside Wickes. Anyway...over and out
Presumably the supermarkets make enough on the ones they do sell not to have to bother with any sort of care and the producers grow enough to make it all viable. If no-one was making a profit doing it this way we would have no plants at all in these stores. Just as all cut Christmas trees and bouquets that are unsold are all built in to the profit margin do it is with live plants. We as gardeners may not like it but such is the way of business I am afraid
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I'm more offended by the food waste, especially the stuff dumped by customers who change their mind half way round and are too r*ddy lazy to go and put it back.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I'm more offended by the food waste, especially the stuff dumped by customers who change their mind half way round and are too r*ddy lazy to go and put it back.
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If no-one was making a profit doing it this way we would have no plants at all in these stores.
Just as all cut Christmas trees and bouquets that are unsold are all built in to the profit margin do it is with live plants.
We as gardeners may not like it but such is the way of business I am afraid
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...