Home Depot, why throw out healthy plants?
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Comments (16)Of course--> here is the website of the nursery but I went in person (I don't think they deliver) but I saw windmill palms, robustas, needle palms, canary island palms, med fan palms, pindo palms, cycads, red banana plants, yuccas, and sabal minors................I was in heaven!!! The address is on their website. http://www.corradosmarket.com/home/store-garden.html...See MoreA guy at the Home Depot said my planting Viburnums was a "bad" idea.
Comments (17)I see your point, and it's well taken. At least the holes are ready for them. It wont take any time to replant. This wasnt a panick situation. It was more like F this! We dont want to have to deal with that kind of BS. No thanks. And it's better that we decided now than down the road. I only wish i had done more research and found out about this most insidious beetle. I read a lot of threads on here and people are miserable having to deal with this bug. We don't want to use insecticides in our yard, much less on thirty 20ft tall shrubs. The idea of it is absurd. Our neighbor will be using them on the other side of their property, not on our side. As for our shrub choices, thats what everyone around here grows. I know they aren't exciting, but they seem to love our yard, and that's enough for me....See MoreVanda orchid flower stalks drying out. But plant looking healthy.
Comments (25)Without a doubt! Thrips. I have them and its a constant fight. They destroy all my buds. They are sucking insects and if you grow Gardenia's or Hibiscus, they are Thrip magnets. I'm considering cutting them down but my Gardenia is huge and beautiful. A good control is Spinosid (not sure of the spelling) . You have to spray every two weeks while the buds are forming. It is organic and safe to use. Thrips will attack all orchid buds. They love Vandas and Phals but will go after anything they can get their miserable mouths on! Sorry about your plant. I understand the frustration. I'm going through it too. Jane...See MoreLowes/Home Depot plants -when do they stock what?
Comments (14)Just a word of warning regarding zones and plant hardiness. The USDA determines your zone by the average annual extreme minimum temp. This means that some years your extreme minimum temp has to be BELOW what the average minimum temp in that zone look like. I was shocked reading that you are in MA but zone 7. I don't think of ANYWHERE in MA as being zone 7. I think of the Cape as being solidly in zone 6, hence the ability to grow flowering mophead hydrangeas (grumble) and going down to zone 5 as you move across MA. I put in my zip code recently on a plant website recently and was surprised it tried to tell me I'm 6a. Sure, maybe THIS YEAR was 6a, but for the past several years extreme low temps have reached at least -20, which is a zone 5a temp. I won't buy anything for outside that isn't hardy to zone 5, at least. And at zone 5 I know there might be a winter where I'll lose it or it will need protection. Zone 3 or 5 is safer. I know the seacoast and Cape ARE definitely warmer, my family is from the outer Cape and I visit often, but I would not things for zone 7 expecting them to survive every winter. Plan to buy things hardy to zone 6 at least, and if you are on the water and get a cold ocean wind, you will probably need to protect things. Sorry, you said you are a beginner. I hated watching things die when I just started!!...See MoreUser
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