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Spring is here and its time to start planting. I usually start most of my garden from seed, but like many people, I also want some instant color and buy blooming perennials.
Due to the fact that they are not a permanent planting, I like to change things up every year and often buy plants I've never seen just because they are different and pretty.
Yesterday, I was at the nursery area of the orange apron and found a delightful plant that I hadn't seen in gardens before. The label just said Aquilegia Mix Full Sun and there were no care instructions.
I live in the land of "We don't need no more stinkin' sunlight!". Full sun here is much different than full sun in other parts of the world, so I took a pot to the clerk and asked if she knew anything about them. She said they were a new product and looked around the pot for care instructions with no more success than I had. I thanked her, pulled out my phone and moved out of the line to look it up.
The female person behind me had one of the very same plants and who had to have clearly heard my discussion with the clerk because she was standing so close, asked the same questions I had and promptly lost her fertilizer over the clerk's inability to answer her questions. It was totally unacceptable that a part-time minimum wage clerk in a big box store doesn't know everything about anything in her department and a manager was summoned.
Here's where my
came out. I went back to the poor clerk who was now checking out customers while her beleaguered manager was dealing with the now screaming female (who was certainly not a lady), and asked if she could handle my cell phone while on the floor and showed her the info I had found about the plant. She read the info, asked me for permission to take my phone to her manager so he would know about the plant and the female lost her fertilizer again over employees playing around on their phones instead of helping the customers.
Clerk gave my phone back to me, rang up my purchase, bagged my stuff and thanked me. She also added a rather nice discount to my purchase.
For those who are interested, the plant in question wouldn't work well in my garden, so I only bought 1. I had to try it because it was so pretty, but I doubt that it will survive. What the heck, it was a five dollar perennial. Instant color and shape. That's all any most people buy them for anyhow.
Due to the fact that they are not a permanent planting, I like to change things up every year and often buy plants I've never seen just because they are different and pretty.
Yesterday, I was at the nursery area of the orange apron and found a delightful plant that I hadn't seen in gardens before. The label just said Aquilegia Mix Full Sun and there were no care instructions.
I live in the land of "We don't need no more stinkin' sunlight!". Full sun here is much different than full sun in other parts of the world, so I took a pot to the clerk and asked if she knew anything about them. She said they were a new product and looked around the pot for care instructions with no more success than I had. I thanked her, pulled out my phone and moved out of the line to look it up.
The female person behind me had one of the very same plants and who had to have clearly heard my discussion with the clerk because she was standing so close, asked the same questions I had and promptly lost her fertilizer over the clerk's inability to answer her questions. It was totally unacceptable that a part-time minimum wage clerk in a big box store doesn't know everything about anything in her department and a manager was summoned.
Here's where my
came out. I went back to the poor clerk who was now checking out customers while her beleaguered manager was dealing with the now screaming female (who was certainly not a lady), and asked if she could handle my cell phone while on the floor and showed her the info I had found about the plant. She read the info, asked me for permission to take my phone to her manager so he would know about the plant and the female lost her fertilizer again over employees playing around on their phones instead of helping the customers.Clerk gave my phone back to me, rang up my purchase, bagged my stuff and thanked me. She also added a rather nice discount to my purchase.
For those who are interested, the plant in question wouldn't work well in my garden, so I only bought 1. I had to try it because it was so pretty, but I doubt that it will survive. What the heck, it was a five dollar perennial. Instant color and shape. That's all any most people buy them for anyhow.
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