Linneaj said:At least on trees, but maybe other plants, Lowe's will refund your money for a full year if you bring them back a dead plant. Keep receipts with a note in real ink about the date, price, and plant - maybe also the numerical code. Receipts can fade.
One fall, I took a chance on a dry Blue Spruce that didn't revive. I got a refund the next spring.
We purchased three Redbud trees from Lowes last spring, and none of them survived.
Sadly, we lost the receipt, so were out of luck.
I can think of half a dozen locations with twenty miles of where I'm sitting, where row upon row of trees are lined up, waiting to grow to a certain size, and be sold.
And, if you go to Eustis, Fl, and take SR-44 like you were going to Nichole's daylilies, you will pass a number of wholesale nursery operations, most of which seem to specialize in bedding plants and shrubs. There's quite a bit of that around Apopka, Fl, as well.
It's a safe bet that most of these nurseries buy huge quantities of plants from places like the one in Costa Rica, then put them in pots and grow them for a season or two before they enter the retail market.
