Plants are on their way

[Smart Red]

OMG! I don't remember if I ordered these plants this year or last year. I have been waiting for a shipment due to come the first two weeks of July, but not these. Perhaps the hostas I'm waiting for will arrive sometime early next July, huh? I should'a read more carefully.

Dear (Smart Red),

Your order #2386PFS is in the mail! The following items have been shipped:

1 * Black Hens and Chicks
1 * Carmen Hens and Chicks
1 * Dessert Bloom Hens and Chicks
1 * Emerald Hensa and Chicks
1 * Green Wheel Hens and Chicks
1 * Hens and Chicks Forest Frost
1 * Hens and Chicks Silverine
1 * Jade Rose Hens and Chicks
1 * Purple Beauty Hens and Chicks
1 * Ruby Heart Hens and Chicks
1 * Sedum 'Octoberfest'
1 * Sedum album
1 * Sedum Bronze Beauty
1 * Sedum Dazzleberry Sparkler
1 * Sedum Immergrunger
1 * Sedum Purple Form
1 * Agastache Raspberry Daiquri
1 * Miscanathus Little Zebra
Your order is being shipped via USPS to the following address:

SMART RED
########## Road
South-est, Central-est, WI 535#######
United States
Your tracking number is 920559016491731330####.



You can track your shipment here:

https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction_input?origTrackNum=920559016491731330####
Please note it may take 24 hours for your tracking number to return the correct information regarding your shipment.

Thanks for your order!
The Hosta Farm


Oh, well, the prices were great. Obviously I'm much weaker in the middle of the winter cold and snow when it comes to gluttonous purchasing of garden plants.

Now, where did I plan to put all these?

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Lots of planting to do!

 

[Smart Red]

Not spring, not fall, it's the worst time to plant of all. Everything is guaranteed to need water by the buckets full.

 

[Nyboy]

pay grand kids to plant and keep watered

 

[so lucky]

Sounds like fun!

 

[Smart Red]

My plants arrived. Unlike those of earlier this year that came free floating in the box without identification, these were relatively well packaged with a number tag on each plant to correspond with numbers on the packing list. So, 18 new plants with labels are waiting for their forever homes along with an apology note thanking me for my patience.

The first plant I picked up and checked against the packing slip was #11. It was plainly a zebra grass, but the number 11 was listed as a purple hen and chicks. That means all the assorted plant variety names are suspect. Does #2 really mean the plant is an emerald hen and chicks or merely one of 10 possible plants known to be hen and chicks?

I know the first plant, agastache is correct because it's leaves are neither sedum nor hen and chicks. Then, again, could it be some other plant growing next to the agastache and shipped by mistake? I know # 11 is not hen and chicks, but zebra grass and that #10 is not a grass but a hen and chicks. The agastache and grass are the only two plants I can be sort of sure of. Pooh!

 

[aftermidnight]

Sometimes you just can't win for losing. I'd contact them and tell them the 'Who am I game' they are trying to play with you just isn't cutting it.

Annette

 

[Nyboy]

The owners are using excuse there daughter is very sick. Family tried filling in and made a mess of their spring mailing. They sent out a email that so many clients want there money back that they might go under.

 

[Smart Red]

I appreciate the merchandise was offered at a great price as "liquidators for other companies". It is just that trying to keep records of what plants I have is impossible when they come without identification.

I fear one or two of the clematis I ordered will die in pots before I learn what they are and get them in their proper places. I don't want to risk damaging them by repeatedly moving them and putting a 12-foot clematis in the space I reserved for a 4-foot one isn't a good idea.

I will be contacting them, probably tomorrow, after I spend some time trying to figure out their labeling methods and matching plants to names.

 

[thistlebloom]

Would it help to look up the names on the internet and match them to pictures?