We had a talk by somebody from TM at our village garden club & he brought along some bare root stuff (all looked as healthy as bare root stuff can do in January) for the raffle.
I was one of the lucky winners and chose a clearly labelled geranium 'Patricia' - selected because I already have Patricia in the garden and think it is a bit of a stunner. My plants are only a year old and still a bit small for dividing so it was a cheap way to increase my stock I thought...
Imagine my disappointment when the flowers opened a few weeks ago - instead of the lovely magenta flowers of Patricia they were a rather bright pink - very similar to boring old endresii.
I don't think it is endressii (growth habit is not right) so will persevere in case it has other redeeming features, but it is definitely not the 'advertised' Patricia either and not a geranium I would have chosen.
Can't make up my mind whether or not to complain to them about it as it was only the price of a raffle ticket. But this experience (& other comments on this site) has put me off ordering anything from them - definitely not great publicity
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
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if you have facebook stifyn then complain on their fb page, they respond quickly on there.
And looking at their website the P&P for an ordinary order is £4.95 so they're actually charging a premium for their "free" offers!
We had a talk by somebody from TM at our village garden club & he brought along some bare root stuff (all looked as healthy as bare root stuff can do in January) for the raffle.
I was one of the lucky winners and chose a clearly labelled geranium 'Patricia' - selected because I already have Patricia in the garden and think it is a bit of a stunner. My plants are only a year old and still a bit small for dividing so it was a cheap way to increase my stock I thought...
Imagine my disappointment when the flowers opened a few weeks ago - instead of the lovely magenta flowers of Patricia they were a rather bright pink - very similar to boring old endresii.
I don't think it is endressii (growth habit is not right) so will persevere in case it has other redeeming features, but it is definitely not the 'advertised' Patricia either and not a geranium I would have chosen.
Can't make up my mind whether or not to complain to them about it as it was only the price of a raffle ticket. But this experience (& other comments on this site) has put me off ordering anything from them - definitely not great publicity
thanks all, they responded to my complaint and are sending more or refunding my money x
Well, Facebook is obviously the way to go with T&M - well done!
As I don't do FB it's probably as well that I don't do T&M either
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I will take a pic when my hydrangeas come out.
i know you have to treat the paniculata different to the bog standard ones as they bloom on the current years growth, opposite to the others.