Company at all in the trash

[Cfred72]

We live in a bizarre society, I find. The society of "All in the trash".
Here is what I have just brought back from a garden shop near my house. In the absence of cardboard boxes available, I could not take more. However, there was 1m³ of bulbs discarded. I used it, other people saw me and we followed.
It is certain that this is not the right time to plant spring bulbs and that gardening is unlikely to sell these bulbs at this time.
However, I do not care too much. I am sure that many of these bulbs will still be able to recover and prosper in the coming years.
Okay, maybe not all the tulipa, but the Iris, Crocus, Chionodoxa and perhaps the Ranunculus if I protect them from freezing, will certainly get there. By counting the labels, there are 582 bulbs.

[Maggi Young]

Some of them are bound to survive, Fred - you have made a good rescue of these poor suffering bulbs.  I can never understand why the garden centres do not act sensibly  to reduce the price of these things to sell them off when it is still a good time of the season.  Crazy. Of course, they often do the same with poor plants too, dried out and suffering for no good reason.

 There is a similar "throw away" attitude to many municipal plantings- the plants from one season are pulled up and thrown away- regardless of how many more years of life they have left, to make room for the new season's flowers.

[Michael J Campbell]

Two years ago the manager of our local B&Q had 25 Acer palmatum Garnet  still in stock in the Autumn, when the leaves dropped he told the girl working in the garden centre to throw them  out because  they were dead as the leaves had fallen. Poor girl nearly took a heart-attack,her dad owns a small  garden centre and shop at the other end of town. Some of the Managers  in the big stores are real smart you know.

[Gabriela]

We live in a bizarre society, I find. The society of "All in the trash".

Sadly Fred this also applies for other aspects of our bizzare society, not just for plants

[Graeme]

Two years ago the manager of our local B&Q had 25 Acer palmatum Garnet  still in stock in the Autumn, when the leaves dropped he told the girl working in the garden centre to throw them  out because  they were dead as the leaves had fallen. Poor girl nearly took a heart-attack,her dad owns a small  garden centre and shop at the other end of town. Some of the Managers  in the big stores are real smart you know.

Picked up some rather nice primulas from our local garden centre just after xmas for 50p each - they obviously had no idea that the tiny resting crowns were actually what they should look like at time of year
Another one I go to gets rid of all the bulbs the first day after xmas - so I always get a few bits