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Random Bag of Flowers - Perennial Grab Bag

Random Bag of Flowers - Perennial Grab Bag for $20

You get random flowers at differing heights, all perennials.

@ gurneys.com

by normscoffee
added 2 years ago

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Can anyone comment on how many flowers you'll get with this, or what kinds of flowers you could potentially get?

yankeefan1087
2 years ago

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As a horticulturist I wouldn't go for it.

You have no idea if the plants you are going to get are appropriate for where you have the space to plant: sunny, shady, damp, dry, and so on. Spend the $20 on something you can be sure will grow in the conditions that you have.

arturner
2 years ago

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Absolutely agree, arturner! This is an excellent way to bundle and get rid of odds and ends that most people wouldn't want. (Hmmmm, sounds like the home loan crisis...) If you have nothing and want to just get something in the ground, well, OK. But beware of the aggressive stuff that can overtake a garden - easy to propagate and sell... Been there, did that, paid the piper with Round Up and tilling.

mofull
2 years ago

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Or there's one for free... (plus shipping)
Spring hill nurseries

http://springhillnursery.com/perennial-grab-bag/p/82057/

1. Add the Perennial Plant Grab Bag to your cart for $100
2. apply key code "0423655" to cut it to $20
3. apply key code "414217" (it stacks) to further chop it to $0

(full sun to full shade - zones 5-8)

pero69
2 years ago

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@pero69: Well, free plus $12.95 shipping.
Which is still cheap, but not free.

/nit-picking

centricity
2 years ago

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Thanks, @Pero60, I tried your two key codes and they worked. Now the fun of seeing what I got.

bmikols
2 years ago

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yeah - I was going to list the shipping amount, but i didn't know if it based it on my zip code or not.

pero69
2 years ago

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Thanks @Pero60. The codes worked for me as well. :-D

sliver2502
2 years ago

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Hopped on the Spring Hill one; i've always been happy with their plants, and i have a sad, bare bed that needs friends.

balisane
2 years ago

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Might want to aviod spinghill. It takes forever for them to ship stuff out and when you do end up getting it, it will be the smallest plant ever. The last plant I got from them was just about dead and still waiting on a replacement. Been waiting for 5 weeks now.

lildani
2 years ago

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Springhill is but one of several "front ends" for a large plant clearing house. They were Gurneys, they were Garden Direct, they were several others.

Puny, ailing, half-dead plants. Any time I bought a "grab bag" of anything it was always a slew of the same items. I bought a "Lily Grab Bag" that promised all kinds of exotic Asiatic & Japanese varieties - I got a huge bag of orange lilies - not very different from the "ditch lilies" that grow all over Ohio.

I bought lupines, monarda, bachelor buttons, balloonflowers, hardy gladiolas, fresia - the list goes on and on (I had a new home to landscape) - and all I have left are balloon flowers and dragonflowers - both of which are essentially weeds. And I have an extremely green thumb - the plants I replaced from a "real nursery" are doing great.

I even bough annuls (caladiums & begonias) & the corms were pitifully small and sometimes rotten.

Caveat emptor - it's not a lot of cash, but don't expect much for the cost of your shipping.

pufferfishy
2 years ago

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With Spring Hill, you're just throwing your money away. Been there, done that, and so have alot of people.
http://davesgarden.com/products/gwd/c/188/

As for Gurneys, I can't give a personal review, but others can:
http://davesgarden.com/products/gwd/c/184/

Being an experienced gardener myself, there's only a handful of online nurseries I'd ever deal with again.

Try Bluestone Perennials; I believe they're having their 50% sale. Sure, their plants are small, but they'll be gorgeous within 2 or 3 years...

flamingonut
2 years ago

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Old farmers adage.....

Year 1: they sleep
Year 2: they creep
Year 3: they leap

Unless you shop at these on-line places, then they just die.

Edit: Holy cow - that Bluestone place is a half hour from my house! Thanks for the tip!

pufferfishy
2 years ago

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I don't know anything about the grab bag, but I've shopped at Gurneys for years. I've never had a bad plant from them, and they are usually generous.

enigmachick
2 years ago

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Scarlet Tanager, LLC (owner: Niles Kinerk) owns Spring Hill / Gurneys - in fact, they are the umbrella corporation for:
The Garden Store
The Michigan Bulb Company
Gurney's
Henry Field's
Spring Hill Nurseries
Breck's Bulbs
Audubon Workshop
Flower of the Month Club
Gardens Alive

I have shopped at several (Michigan Bulb having SEVERELY screwed on about $300 worth of crap plants they were supposed to replace - by simply "Going out of business" (and, coincidentally, becoming "Gurney's")) and this is, plain and simply, a shady company.
People on other blogs have traveled to many of the brick-n-mortar locations and they are nothing but office buildings - no nursery.

It's a total crapshoot.

pufferfishy
2 years ago

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