Moan, moan, moan----get it off your chest or have a chat

[ChrisB]

Oh well, you tried, Maggi.  If Fred can't do it, no one can.... what a shame.

[Roma]

Did try Maggi but it hasn't worked.  Will try again!

[Maggi Young]

Roma, you have done it... and added a super pic of the Fell ponies..... thank you!
Just what we need from others, too!!

[Paul T]

Maggi,

Sorry, I don't have any pictures of Fell ponies.... you'll just have to live with the pic of Elfinraer!!  besides, if everyone had pics of Fell ponies we wouldn't be able to tell everyone apart! 

[Lesley Cox]

Back in the (southern) autumn I bought 50 Iris x Sindpers from a local wholesale nursery, with the intention of potting them individually and selling them in flower. I've done it before several times, from the nursery's previous owner. This was my first business with the new owner.

When they arrived they were soft, many were mouldy and only 2 of the 50 still had their storage roots attached. I should have sent them straight back but didn't, hoping to retrieve them. I did complain though and was told the roots were removed so THEY could make new bulbs from them.

I planted the lot in the garden and about half came up, with a couple of miserable flowers in July. Now 6 more are in flower - and they are I. bucharica! I'm about to complain again!

[Paul T]

Lesley,

I don't blame you!!  I would be too.  Do you normally have dealings with them for other things?

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Give'm hell Lesley ! 

[ashley]

Back in the (southern) autumn I bought 50 Iris x Sindpers from a local wholesale nursery ... and they are I. bucharica! I'm about to complain again!

It's not only NZ Lesley.  I bought 'Sindpers' across the ditch, to find that it was not.  It has yet to flower but I suspect bucharica too

[Lesley Cox]

They used to be Blue Mountain Gardens (an offshoot of Blue Mountain Nurseries) and I bought 'Sindpers' and Frit imperialis by the hundreds from the former owner John Hughes, to send to Marcus and for my own nursery but since they changed hands 2 years ago, these are the first I've bought.

Ashley, they export to Europe in large quantities, tulip bulbs to Holland (!) - for out-of-season flowers I think - and to the UK so it's quite likely that what you have bought from England has come from the same place as mine. They also export F. imperialis and lilies.

[Anthony Darby]

Roma, you have done it... and added a super pic of the Fell ponies..... thank you!
Just what we need from others, too!!

Quite unlike the fell beasts in LOTR.

[ashley]

They used to be Blue Mountain Gardens (an offshoot of Blue Mountain Nurseries) and I bought 'Sindpers' and Frit imperialis by the hundreds from the former owner John Hughes, to send to Marcus and for my own nursery but since they changed hands 2 years ago, these are the first I've bought.

Ashley, they export to Europe in large quantities, tulip bulbs to Holland (!) - for out-of-season flowers I think - and to the UK so it's quite likely that what you have bought from England has come from the same place as mine. They also export F. imperialis and lilies.

No it was YOUR ditch I was talking about Lesley    Ah, so it was also YOUR fault that what MH supplied me as 'Sindpers' wasn't 

In fact I got mine about 18 months ago so it's possible that he had continued to buy in from this source after it changed hands (and standards too apparently ).

[Paul T]

Ashley,

Have you notified Marcus?  He has always replaced any of the (rare) mistakes that happen.  It's easy for something to be mishandled, particularly with a fair client list, but the true measure is the response when a mishandling occurs.  I have always found Marcus exemplary in this regard, replacing things without a problem.  I'm sure he'll be most upset if he finds out that there have major mixups in his supplies, but hopefully yours is just a one-off handling error, instead of a major problem like Lesley has had.  My fingers are very much crossed!!

If you haven't already, contact him and let him know once you know what it is.

[ashley]

You're absolutely right Paul. 
No, I'm not moaning (despite the thread ), nor even whinging (since I have the wrong passport ).
However I've not contacted Marcus about this yet, partly because I'm curious to see what it turns out to be. 
On the contrary Marcus was most helpful, even going to the considerable trouble of obtaining Tasmanian wild seed for me that I couldn't find commercially. 

[David Nicholson]

 

By the way Ashley, I have 20 Euros left after my break in Spain, can you recommend a bank?

[ashley]

 Just hold on to them David; they might be worth a lot more soon