Esperanza and gg5 thank you so much for the nice compliments on my aloes.
Esperanza
on your opinion about that evil institution.
Couldn't agree with you more!
I don't shop the store but I do shop the garden center
Unfortunately on a VERY painfully middle class budget, as much as I'd like to go to HD or L's or the local nursery I can't afford to pay $17.99 for the same plant at the same size that the draconian evil place is charging $7.99 or .40 cents for often in the same conditions and with more limited selections.
As for our nurseries in my neck of the woods. There's one close to where I live and the others are almost an hour or more away. All their prices are surreal!. Forget $17.99 lets, try $47.99 for the same sizes, same plants and same conditions!
And then some of them wonder why they struggle or go out of business! Seriously?
Although I will admit I did get an outstanding deal on 2 Octopus Agaves one time. They had literal hundreds of them for $5.99 each. They were really good size so I took 2 of them.
Wanted more but considering they get 4 feet by 4 feet I had to exercise some restraint. The ones I bought were already 1 foot by about 1 and a half! I'll post a photo of them. So I was rather pleased with this.
I'm also lucky my husband tolerates the ever increasingly crowded yard that he claims he now has to 'waltz' through to get around things with spines just so he can make his way through it,
(He's gotten stuck by something more than once!
)
AND.... the fact I moved our desk into a nook... AND turned our 'office' into a temporary (I promised) sunroom for winter,
AND... the fact that I am now aggressively attacking the back yard with raised brick beds I've been building!
I'm not going to push my luck or my husband over the edge arguing my politics with him when the evil place is less than 15 minutes down the road. Hate to lose all my future plant privileges! So I hope you all will forgive me of my one sin here in this regards?
AG
