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Does it make you fume too?

Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
in Plants
When you see somewhere selling plants, and they don't bother watering them, or they consistently miss some, and you're looking sadly at wilted leaves and drooping flowers.. I hate that, I don't understand it, it's hardly rocket science. 
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  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    I live near a huge Garden Centre. They have a 'hospital' area, last week there were hundreds of bedding plants that had missed out when they were watering. There were also lots of Campanulas all the same, priced based on how bad they were. The prices are high, I guess to cover for the losses. I always head there just to see what I can save.  
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Two of our local garden centres, Three Shires at Newent and Trioscape at High Leadon deserve a positive mention.  We tend to go quite early in the day and they are always out watering and deadheading.
  • debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184
    I buy plants from the local Tesco most days reduced from full price to about 25% of the original cost. 
    A good watering and they are absolutely fine, annuals and perennials alike. 
    Terrible waste of money and effort for Tesco but I benefit. 
  • RedwingRedwing Posts: 1,511
    debs64 said:
    I buy plants from the local Tesco most days reduced from full price to about 25% of the original cost. 
    A good watering and they are absolutely fine, annuals and perennials alike. 
    Terrible waste of money and effort for Tesco but I benefit. 
    Plants were in a very sorry state at my local Tesco yesterday; no one would buy them looking like that.....no reductions either.
    Based in Sussex, I garden to encourage as many birds to my garden as possible.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I thought supermarkets had people who would work out to the last penny how much they could earn per square foot in a supermarket.
    Our local Sainsbury's has unwatered  dying plants with no natural light. Full shelves. Nobody buying them. They'd make more money selling melting Easter eggs in August.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    Yes, supermarkets are very bad - if their excuse is not enough time to water, they shouldn't sell them - it would take all of 5 minutes!
    As for the two main DIY chain stores... 
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Weirdly I've found that any place selling plants now will have bone dry annuals but cacti are always sat in a pool of water.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • rachelQrtJHBjbrachelQrtJHBjb Posts: 819
    The local Tesco is pretty good. Plants are semi under cover so neither roasted or blasted with icy air, depending on the season. The two Waitrose stores usually have 50% of their plants wilted or half dead. I cannot understand the logic of having plants when there is so much waste. 
  • debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184
    I try to rescue as many as possible and give them away if I don’t want them. I had 4 large perennials, leucanthemun and coreopsis for £5 I don’t need them but they will fill a gap in my daughters garden. I don’t understand the sheer waste of it. They must lose money on plants 🌱 
  • WonkyWombleWonkyWomble Posts: 4,541
    A branch of Lidl in Felixstowe has the plants and cut flowers positioned under a ceiling heater! When I explained what this was doing to their stock I was told the floor plan is designed by head office and not allowed to be changed ..... what can you say....I give up!
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