Sigh.
If you could see how many plants probably got dumpstered here in the last couple days as frost and Xmas stock threatened them - it just doesn't pay for them to treat all plants as investments as many of us do. There are many consumers with a very fatalistic attitude about anything botany. 'It's gonna die sooner or later, I kill everything " I just wish there was better recycling for the barely used potting mix and pots, I had a friend at home depot once, she'd salvage lots of pots.
couple of HD staff were shuffling plants around madly on Tuesday.