Hamwild said: It's also dumb because they won't let people take them. I've been told, they have to be trashed,
Depending on where one lives, some areas once in the trash any one can take it as it is trash.
I have not rescued trash for thirty years, I have a twenty foot tall Austrian Pine from that, but did used to go to small , usually a dozen or two plants outside on a metal stand, and some times grab a veggie that was all but kaput, for a bargain.
Such small displays, outside a store usually in a small plaza, are disappearing in the past five years.
I am supposing they got their plants from small private garden suppliers .
It could be such farms are dying also.
Used to be where one could get an odd-ball tomato or squash.