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Reclaiming the cost of some mail order plants
Cambridgerose12
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Dear Van Meuwen,
After six months of waiting,
Impatient as can be,
Finally my patience was rewarded.
But wait! What do I see?
Green leaves—how can that be?
For Geranium ‘Midnight Blue’
Is famous, as you know too,
For having BROWN leaves
In beautiful sheaves.
So what on earth should I do?
I think you’ve sent me G. ‘Johnson’s Blue’.
So now alas I am sending
An email about this sad ending
To six months of anticipation
With disappointing information
And a request for a refund of the cost
Since my hopes were all lost
Because £15.94 is a lot
Considering that what I got
Wasn’t G. ‘Midnight Blue’
(See photo to prove).
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Let us know what their response is!!
Hi Cambridgerose12
Poor you, can this be true?
They didn't send you Midnight Blue
I feel so sad, alas, alack
I hope you got your money back!
Maybe I should have tried that approach with parker.
Your bulbs and plants aren't worth Jack,
Can I have my money back?
Hi Cambridgerose,
Beeches Nursery at Ashdon (near Saffron Walden) have a lot of geranium varieties so it might be worth giving them a call to see if they have Midnight Blue. I never fail to leave there with plants, even if they didn't have the ones I was looking for.
Interesting! A couple of years ago I ordered geranium "Splish Splash" from Van Meuwen. Having lovingly nurtured the bare root plants I was sent when they eventually flowered they were pale pink. I did get a refund but with a rather grudging email which implied that it was very unreasonable of me not to be happy with what I had received.
Have just put Beeches Nursery in my bookmarks - looking at their catalogue it seems like a good place to set the sat nav for
Always worth visiting. You can spend ages just wandering amongst all the plants.
I Have the suspicion that plant traders play on the fact that often by the time you found you've been sold a pup, too much time has elapsed to do much about it. Both experienced and novice gardeners will often blame failure on external factors such as the weather, disease or whatever.
I have planted what I thought were tulips and found they were irises. I knew pretty soon they weren't tulips, but was curious. Time elapsed and I couldn't remember where I'd got them from. Who keeps the receipts for months?
I've also been seduced by the picture on packets of bulbs only to find that I couldn't wait for the xxxxx things to finish so that I could compost them.