There's a well known company who sticks apples on the tree in its brochure, but they reproduce the same two apple images over and over again so it is really obvious.
I have fallen foolish victim to a few of these little pranks though and now before I buy anything I look at google images until I find an unremarkable pic which I presume to be a true likeness...
It's not being too fussy at all. We're talking about the mislabelling of products, not nature's own variations in colour and height.
If someone has a yellow front door and buys a decorative yellow standard rose to go next to it, only to find it grows bright red, that's an annoyance and a waste of time and money. It's not as though there's a good reason for it to grow red when it was supposed to be yellow.
In the case of my yellow dahlia, I have two dahlias in identical pots with another plant in the middle, so it's supposed to look symmetrical. It's not the end of the world, but the two dahlias not being the same spoils the look I was trying to achieve, and that's down to Lidl's supplier being very poor labelling things correctly. The problem's more obvious when you only have a tiny garden.
It's like buying cod only to cook it and find you've been given plaice.
If you want to buy the correct colours and plants, why are you buying from Lidl? If it matters to you, and it seems it does, use a specialist supplier. There are plenty of them around.
I have always used Peter Nyssen for bulbs and their ilk and the one time I had a mis-labelled lily bulb it was changed immediately.
Lidl and Aldi sell cheap plants for a reason. In my opinion they treat their growing plants badly, but I've found their seeds are good.
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There's a well known company who sticks apples on the tree in its brochure, but they reproduce the same two apple images over and over again so it is really obvious.
I have fallen foolish victim to a few of these little pranks though and now before I buy anything I look at google images until I find an unremarkable pic which I presume to be a true likeness...
I just plant things, what colour they are is up to them, enough said.
Some people are to fussy.
It's not being too fussy at all. We're talking about the mislabelling of products, not nature's own variations in colour and height.
If someone has a yellow front door and buys a decorative yellow standard rose to go next to it, only to find it grows bright red, that's an annoyance and a waste of time and money. It's not as though there's a good reason for it to grow red when it was supposed to be yellow.
In the case of my yellow dahlia, I have two dahlias in identical pots with another plant in the middle, so it's supposed to look symmetrical. It's not the end of the world, but the two dahlias not being the same spoils the look I was trying to achieve, and that's down to Lidl's supplier being very poor labelling things correctly. The problem's more obvious when you only have a tiny garden.
It's like buying cod only to cook it and find you've been given plaice.
I have always used Peter Nyssen for bulbs and their ilk and the one time I had a mis-labelled lily bulb it was changed immediately.
Lidl and Aldi sell cheap plants for a reason. In my opinion they treat their growing plants badly, but I've found their seeds are good.