Home Depot 1/3 Off Trees and Shrubs

For a little over 80 bucks I got three vaccinium corymbosum (highbush blueberries) Earliblue, Darrow and Patriot; two Fothergillas, Mt. Airy; one Viburnum dentatum, Northern Burgundy; one Oakleaf Hydrangea; and a Kalmia, Carousel. They offer a one-year guarantee so I figured it was worth a shot.

That's quite a haul. Good luck with them. I was at HD today and noticed a bunch of 3-4'
Japanese maples at about $85.00. They looked okay but I wasn't too tempted, although they did have "Sango Kaku," which is one I'll land someday. They had them B&B in containers, which is something they consistantly do which I do not understand.

Scott

Yeah, that's wierd. I was a little leary of buying there, but the prices were so good I couldn't resist the temptation. A few of the leaves on the Fothergilla were fried around the edges, but aside from that everything looked pretty healthy. Guess I won't know for sure until their pots come off.

Wow! You got some great plant material for very little cash. Congratulations! May I ask what size pots they were in?

At the garden center I work in, we sometimes will put B&B plants in a container. If we expect them to move off the lot quickly, or don't have the time to dig them in, placing them in a pot prevents them from getting tipped over by careless customers or strong sprays of water and wind. It can also hold together weak burlap and thus prevent the root ball from accidentally getting damaged.

Pot sizes:
Kalmia and Fothergilla - #2
Oakleaf hydranga and Vacciniums - #3
Viburnum - #1

They all looked a little big for their pots which I didn't really notice til you asked about the sizes. I expect some may be root bound. I'll check them out tomorrow.

I am very surprised your HD carries fothergilla and oakleaf hydrangeas. The ones by me would never carry nice material like that. I have notice the nicer the neighborhood, the better the plant selection is at HD. I go a little farther to one by me that actually carried some grafted conifers which I have been buying now that they are on sale and earlier this year. Also when the grafted ones lose their tag (twice this year) they go down to $10 since nobody there knows what the heck they are selling. Got a nice 5 gal Pinus Densiflora Umbrifilica as well as a dwarf Scotch Pine for $10 each. Also bought a Picea Pungens Bacheri earlier this year before they could neglect it.

Nice finds

Bill

I live close to willis. Our HD's never have any plant material like what you're getting you lucky sap! We do have at least a hundred Bradford Pears and Burning Bushes on sale for those with discerning tastes. If our HD had plants like what you described on sale I'd be taking off work tomorrow and heading out to hit as many HDs as I could in one day.

Equil, do you mean me or fireweed? Burning bushes are discounted to $10 for 3 gal, gold pot special. Get'm while their hot.

Bill

Hey Bill, I was referring to that lucky sap fireweed who has Home Depots around her that are stocking decent plant material.

I saw what our Home Depots reduced them to and people are buying them like popcorn. One woman had an entire cart of them and had rammed a few Butterfly Bushes, Japanese Barberry, and some really choice Shasta Daisies that had defintiely looked as if they had seen better days in and around the tops of her Burning Bushes. I nonchalantly asked her where she lived and when she told me she was from the next County over, I told her what attractive plants she had purchased and was thanking my lucky stars she didn't live anywhere near me. I do know how much you like those species and being as how you're only about an hour or so away from me I took the liberty of stuffing my own flyers in the mailboxes of ALL of your neighbors listing ALL the Home Depots in our local vicinity that are selling out all of their choice goodies so they could pick them up cheap before they all sold out. Honey, don't thank me. I felt it was the least I could do for you to help your little one and the new one on the way learn how to identify Burning Bush and Bradford Pear volunteers. It'll be good for them. It will give them a jump on the identification process in the future when we will be relying even more on the new and "emerging" talent out in County and State properties. I've got a nice little audio cassette for you to start playing to the newest member of the willis clan while in womb. Guess what it says? Nothing like having a whole new generation to carry the torch for us as we age.

"Here's Your Sign".

My baby started saying "tree" the other day and says it when we go through the forest preserve or when we ask here what one is. She said "cone" months ago. Ignoring the invasive part, I would prefer burning bushes to all the Rose of Sharon around here. Must of been the gold pot special at Handy Andy 20 years ago.

Bill

Tree is a hard word with that r in it. Usually at her age it comes out an Elmer Fudd "twee". Way cool. Do you have her on tape?

I remember Handy Andy. I liked Handy Andy. It was a fun store with all those work shops for women. Do you remember HA offering those workshops? That's where I learned to wallpaper and they also taught me to stencil. The Rose of Sharons are all over here too. At least they bloom.

I wish they had workshops like that nowadays. I want to learn woodworking, but I'll be going at it kind of blind. (Maybe I should start watching "Home Improvement" reruns.)

Bill, You may be right. This HD is close to Haddonfield, a real foo-foo community, and Cherry Hill, which is mainly foo-foo. I'm on the other side of the tracks. I was surprised to find the Oakleaf hydranga and Fothergilla, too.

Guy, It never even occurred to me to tip the plant out and check the roots. Is it okay to do that?

E, Don't worry, there is no shortage of Burning Bushes or Barberry at this HD. And tons of Leyland Cypress. I didn't see any Bradford pears, but that's probably because they had been purchased earlier in the season. They're all over the streets here. One neighbor down the street removed three beautiful old Sycamores and replaced them with Bradford pears. She didn't like the mess made by the Sycamores' peeling bark!

Anyway, I've got the day off work and will check those roots this morning. If the digital camera's batteries are charged I'll snap a few picks of my haul.

Yep. In fact, I'm thinking of taking your suggestion and

heading out to hit as many HDs as I could in one day.

Batteries are charging . . .