dean
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Hi whats the best way to buy plants and why?
dean said:dont mean to be awkward but dont you trim the roots off from a potted plant?
dean said:dont mean to be awkward but dont you trim the roots off from a potted plant?
so they end up looking like a bunched plant anyway
so are bunched plants equal to potted when we plant them?
dean said:Good points been made, I'll have to use my contacts and find some aquafleur potted plants
my local garden centre has aquafleur, very good prices but narrow selection. could be a place to look if you live near one.dean said:Good points been made, I'll have to use my contacts and find some aquafleur potted plants
ceg4048 said:Yes, this is all very nice and well, but just a note of caution while everyone seems to get on the Asian supplier bashing bandwagon, it's not logical to decry all Asian plant suppliers just because you have an issue with a particular supplier. There are plenty of good responsive suppliers on the other side of the world, so maybe you just picked the wrong one.
Cheers,
Again, I totally understand the frustration of not getting what you paid for mate, no argument there, but just think about it for a second, if you were shopping for species that you could not get locally, how could you have been better off? It could also be that your growing technique was not good enough at the time to get a better yield. We are dealing with living things, not widgets or computer chips. There are certain risks, so the way I look at it is that all I need is for one stem to survive and I can propagate from there. Not ideal, but that's how it goes.spyder said:I'm not really bashing, otherwise I would be naming and shaming. But in this case I feel it was false economy. Yes a few species made a great recovery but for the total paid and what was actually usable, I feel I would have been better off shopping elsewhere.