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Thu, Apr 12, 07 at 11:32
| Yesterday when I drove in the alley to get home I saw lots of purple. Took me a minute to realize it was a flock of indigo buntings! Then a hummer flew right up to me. THEN several goldfinches went swooping by. So I got back in the truck and went to get the poor things some food, the feeders are empty. Well, that was an expensive trip! Had to get gas, cost me a little over $50 to fill up. So on my way to get bird food, which is now in the garden center, crafty people, I noticed that they had plants for 1/2 price.
Being a part of the plant-a-holic-I-have-no-willpower-enabler bunch I loaded up the cart. I bought a canary island date palm for $16.47, a huge pygmy date palm with lots of small suckers for $33.44, a HUGE lily of the nile for <$8, some snail food-aka hosta for $2.44, and some other assorted things that were on sale for 1/2 or less. AND the @#W%#%!#$^ had gotten in a new shipment of cacti/succulents and I'll be darned if several of them didn't jump into the basket when my back was turned! Including a really cool black succulent of some kind I've never seen before. So my fellow junkies, get thee to Wallyworld and buy some palms! I'm going back tonight to get one I really want and NEED! Tally HO! |
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| Tally, I hope this means you are going to clear a path for me so I can get to the plants I want to dig. BTW, I am sooooooooo glad I NEVER do anything like this. I am sooooooooo in CONTROL when I go to the nursery...... |
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| I would've loved to see those birds!!!PJ |
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- Posted by rick_mcdaniel Lewisville, TX (My Page) on Thu, Apr 12, 07 at 14:04
| Trade you some starlings and grackles for the song birds. (smile) We have a mockingbird or two, but that's about all the song birds around us. |
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- Posted by mikeandbarb z8 D/FW (jetman1979@aol.com) on Thu, Apr 12, 07 at 16:18
| Yeah, I'd love to have some birds like you've got and some of those plants too. You really went and knocked yourself out on a shopping spree. I would have loved being at that shop too. LOL Barb< who can't say anything about anyone else cause she does the same thing (grin) |
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| I managed to walk through the garden center at Wallyworld twice in the last week with out buying a dang thing!!! Either I already have it, or know it won't work for me. They haven't had any of the things I'm looking for. WOW. Its been a long time since I've been able to do that. |
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| I rarely have trouble going through thr WalMart plant department. I usually see the usual stuff everyone else plants and I don't want that stuff. It is either very typical stock or the plants have been damaged or look sick. I don't remember the last time I bought a plant there. I would rather go to a reputable nursery where I know the plants are healthy and pay full price than risk getting a sick plant from Wallyworld. Maybe it is just this particular one close to me, but never been impressed with their plants. |
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| Tally, you scored with plants and birds, sorry about the gas tho Maybe it would be worth it to drive down to get palms, DH loves them jolana |
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- Posted by beachplant 9b (beachplant@excite.com) on Fri, Apr 13, 07 at 12:17
| If you hit our Walmart when the plants arrive they are usually in great shape. Plus they actually have someone that knows plants working there. A surprising number of them are from Texas growers, the palms all from Hempstead. Roses from the hill country. And a lot from some local nurseries in the Alvin area. Even the Home Depot here gets Texas grown plants. I saw my favorite wholesale nursery on the mainland delivering to our local nursery one day! Unfortunately the birds are just passing through. About 80% of migratory birds pass through here. My usual birds are pigeons, doves-several species, sparrows, cardinals, mockingbirds and blue jays. Starlings don't seem to visit the feeders much and every once in a while one of the local wild parrots makes an appearance. |
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| Who can chop a plant with a hundred flowers on it? My 2 sister in laws |
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