Still yet another "cheap" source of plants

[Roy]

I don';t know why, but when we were looking for aquatic plants we had
a lot of problems finding them, now that we have some they seem to be
turning up most everywhere we go, and at cheap prices. Last night
while we were in a store called "PETSMART" they had a large display of
aquatic plants, and their inventory had just about all the plants you
could imagine that are normally found in a water garden or pond...
These are all preplanted in a basket, and come with free samples of
fertilizer as well. They had about 10 different kinds of Iris, and the
wife fell in love with the Black Iris, so needless to say she bought a
pretty decent stock of those. Best thing is they are all discounted
from 50 to 75 percent.

I picked up a bunch of combo kits, which include 1 or 2 miniature
water lillies, and horsetail, or cat tails, and an iris.............so
you get 3 or 4 or so plants in one box / basket for $2.96. Talaked
to an older lady that was looking at the items and she said they will
hold just fine until its time to plant if they are kept dry and in the
dark........she had a shopping cart packed full of the plants, and so
did we when we left.

BTW all but one of the plants we got at closeout prices at Lowes are
showing signs of life.Every single water lilly is putting out new
shoots and leaves, but the horsetails may be history.....
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[Benign Vanilla]

"Roy" > wrote in message
...
<snip>
> I picked up a bunch of combo kits, which include 1 or 2 miniature
> water lillies, and horsetail, or cat tails, and an iris.............so
> you get 3 or 4 or so plants in one box / basket for $2.96. Talaked
> to an older lady that was looking at the items and she said they will
> hold just fine until its time to plant if they are kept dry and in the
> dark........she had a shopping cart packed full of the plants, and so
> did we when we left.
<snip>

FYI...I bought 2 combo kits last year. None grew.

BV.

[~ Windsong ~]

"Roy" > wrote in message
...
> I don';t know why, but when we were looking for aquatic plants we had
> a lot of problems finding them, now that we have some they seem to be
> turning up most everywhere we go, and at cheap prices. Last night
> while we were in a store called "PETSMART" they had a large display of
> aquatic plants, and their inventory had just about all the plants you
> could imagine that are normally found in a water garden or pond...
> These are all preplanted in a basket, and come with free samples of
> fertilizer as well. They had about 10 different kinds of Iris, and the
> wife fell in love with the Black Iris, so needless to say she bought a
> pretty decent stock of those. Best thing is they are all discounted
> from 50 to 75 percent.
>
> I picked up a bunch of combo kits, which include 1 or 2 miniature
> water lillies, and horsetail, or cat tails, and an iris.............so
> you get 3 or 4 or so plants in one box / basket for $2.96. Talaked
> to an older lady that was looking at the items and she said they will
> hold just fine until its time to plant if they are kept dry and in the
> dark........she had a shopping cart packed full of the plants, and so
> did we when we left.

$$ This doesn't sound too good to me. These plants should have been planted
in the ground or pond months ago. They can't be in good shape.

> BTW all but one of the plants we got at closeout prices at Lowes are
> showing signs of life.Every single water lilly is putting out new
> shoots and leaves, but the horsetails may be history.....

$$ My Horsetails were failing in the pond. They're doing fine now planted
in the garden and kept watered.

> Visit my website: http://www.frugalmachinist.com
> Opinions expressed are those of my wife,
> I had no input whatsoever.
> Remove "nospam" from email addy.
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[jammer]

Heck, i wonder if Petsmart here is having a sale. They want $2 for a
teeny little thing, but yes, what a selection!






On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 15:05:50 GMT, (Roy)
wrote:

>I don';t know why, but when we were looking for aquatic plants we had
>a lot of problems finding them, now that we have some they seem to be
>turning up most everywhere we go, and at cheap prices. Last night
>while we were in a store called "PETSMART" they had a large display
of
>aquatic plants, and their inventory had just about all the plants you
>could imagine that are normally found in a water garden or pond...
>These are all preplanted in a basket, and come with free samples of
>fertilizer as well. They had about 10 different kinds of Iris, and
the
>wife fell in love with the Black Iris, so needless to say she bought
a
>pretty decent stock of those. Best thing is they are all discounted
>from 50 to 75 percent.
>
>I picked up a bunch of combo kits, which include 1 or 2 miniature
>water lillies, and horsetail, or cat tails, and an
iris.............so
>you get 3 or 4 or so plants in one box / basket for $2.96. Talaked
>to an older lady that was looking at the items and she said they will
>hold just fine until its time to plant if they are kept dry and in
the
>dark........she had a shopping cart packed full of the plants, and
so
>did we when we left.
>
>BTW all but one of the plants we got at closeout prices at Lowes are
>showing signs of life.Every single water lilly is putting out new
>shoots and leaves, but the horsetails may be history.....
>Visit my website: http://www.frugalmachinist.com
>Opinions expressed are those of my wife,
>I had no input whatsoever.
>Remove "nospam" from email addy.

[Karen]

In article >, "~ Windsong ~"
> writes:

>
>> BTW all but one of the plants we got at closeout prices at Lowes are
>> showing signs of life.Every single water lilly is putting out new
>> shoots and leaves, but the horsetails may be history.....
>
>$$ My Horsetails were failing in the pond. They're doing fine now planted
>in the garden and kept watered.
>

the horsetail I had in Houston didn't grown IN the pond, but did great in the
bog margin.

Karen
Zone 5
Ashland, OH
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[~ Windsong ~]

"Karen" > wrote in message
...
> In article >, "~ Windsong ~"
> > writes:
>
> >
> >> BTW all but one of the plants we got at closeout prices at Lowes are
> >> showing signs of life.Every single water lilly is putting out new
> >> shoots and leaves, but the horsetails may be history.....
> >
> >$$ My Horsetails were failing in the pond. They're doing fine now
planted
> >in the garden and kept watered.
> >
>
> the horsetail I had in Houston didn't grown IN the pond, but did great in
the
> bog margin.
>
> Karen
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Some of these plants do as well as or better in the garden than in the
water/pond. I have all kinds of plants that jumped the pond and were
growing in the soil outside the liner. I have to dig up and remove more.
It's getting too overgrown around the ponds. We already removed many of
them. Lizards tail, water bamboo and water iris are the worst. But there
were also some arrowheads and some other "stuff".....
--
Carol.... the frugal ponder...
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