Re: [gardeners] Perennials for the south
Liz (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Fri, 11 Sep 1998 07:43:26 +0000
I'll give you a very abbreviated version of the story. Catharine
ordered plants for the Herb sale for the Herb society (some of you
may remember that), called several times to make sure they had the
ordered plants, called the day before she drove to SP&H to pick up
the plants and was assured everything was in order. She drove to
SP&H in MS to pick up the plants and they didn't have them. Toured
the facilities and discovered that most of their stock had been
untended for a long period of time and was dead/dying. In short, it
appears that the reason a number of people have had trouble getting
what they order from SP&H is that they don't have many of the plants
listed in the catalog.
BTW, Catharine took photographs to document the condition of the
place and their plants.
I think that one of the reasons Catharine was so frustrated was that
the herb sale involved ordering several thousand dollars worth of
plants to sell at an event called something along the lines of Herbs
for Atlanta. It was a "Southern" thing and she was trying to give
business to a southern company. SP&H knew the importance of the
order and they left her in the lurch very close to the date of the
herb sale.
Maybe she just got them in a bad year.
Liz