Nursery Question

[kHT]

After several trips to some of the surrounding nurseries this past week, I thought maybe this question should
be asked here to see what others would do? Let me add on shop the one worker we talked to didn't know what
we were talking about and only had been there a month, no clue at all??

[Annie]

I would ignore it, get what I went for and leave.

[LucyGoose]

Ditto what Annie said.

[govgirl75]

Me, too.

[John]

Employees at the kind of nursery I prefer to visit would be eager to discuss the allegedly mislabelled plant; this is unlikely to happen at a nursery with "clueless" employees.

[jgh]

I am likely to not grab the first worker, but to figure out who the highest rank worker is... a manager of some sort... and explain it to them. Even at the average shopping center parking lot hoop house, there is usually an overworked, undercompensated manager who has taken the $8 and hour job because they like plants and were hoping for a better discount than the piddling 15% they get and who is supplementing her/his income by dumpster-diving after unnatractive but still viable plants are tossed... (sound like the voice of experience??!!)

anyway, the manager or assistant manager or whatever usually actually wants to do right and they usually respond well when I point out a problem...

[lazygardner]

At a good nursery I would try to tactfully ask if the plant might be mislabled. If I can find others of the same variety with correct lable, I might point it out and ask which is correct. At a hardware store or dept store nursery I've found customers carelessly switch lables around, so I might put the lables right myself.

[Midnight Reiter Too]

If there was a hosta label in a columbine, I'd pull it out and put it on the table if no one was watching me. Otherwise, I might say something to the employee that was in that greenhouse, BUT I'd only do this at the nursery where they know I'm a regular customer.