“I constantly get a laugh out of how my Wal-Mart rhododendron is outperforming everything else I bought.”
When I worked for Jung’s and when we had nursery trees and shrubs that were marked down, they usually ended up at my farm.
Those plants seem to have a stronger will to live and were grateful just to be out of a pot and in the ground! :)
Good morning...I have bought a lot of (annual & perennial) plants from Walmart...most do fine, even if they are “rescues”...altho this year some of the fall chrysanthemums were lousy (died quickly)
I bought a Walmart orchid, just a white phalaenopsis in the spring just after Easter. I was looking for a few particular garden veggie plants and saw about 30 dried up spent orchids. I looked through all of them to see what could come back. Found one with a few flowers left and two promising stalks. It did recover and this spring put out two regenerated stalks and the flowers are huge they have lasted for 4 months already. Paid 4.00 for the orchid. I also scored 4 huge blue hyacinth bulbs for 1.00 each a couple of weeks ago. Put them in a pot to force for spring. Haven’t done that for awhile. Bulbs all half price.