[Bigrich]

Was in B&M buying some doggy poop bags and cider (hey - don't judge me! They're both cheap there!  ) and saw they were selling various fruit bushes and roses.

I decided to have a punt on a £1.50 blueberry bush that looked like it had a good sized root ball. However on unwrapping the root ball it turned out to be a lot of compost around a twig



 

Not even worth the effort of taking it back for £1.50 - you pays your money you takes your chance

Have dipped the twig in rooting gel and planted it in a pot - if it doesn't make it then such is life, lesson learned 

[sunshineband]

You can be lucky or unlucky with these purchases --- the twig may yet come good though..


Last year I bought a pack of five plant roots with a photo of cerise and green "Red Hot Pokers" on it, which turned out to be three lupins, which I didn't really want. But at £1.35, like you, the return journey was not worth it.

You takes yer chances 

[Kristen]

You takes yer chances 

You shouldn't have to though?? This is well outside the Trade Descriptions act surely, and stories of such mis-labelling of the cheap-deals are common enough on the forums (Apples that turned out to be Pears and so on) that it must surely be more than accidental error? The low-price selling companies buying up cheap bin-ends of plants, and the growers just flogging any old stuff, including anything from which the labels have been lost, is unacceptable surely?

[8doubles]

Looks like the 'twig' is starting to root,
bung it in !

[GrannieAnnie]

Don't give up on it.  When I take blackcurrant cuttings, I put them in rooting powder and just plant them, they always grow.

Whereas early last year I bought my daughter 5 raspberry canes from a well known garden centre for £7.99.  the 5 'twigs' are still sitting in her garden nearly a year later!

I told her to wait until I go down again, just in case they stayed dormant for some reason last year.

[Bigrich]

Fingers crossed it'll root properly - a little bit vexing. But the silly thing is I'll not buy any plant from them again, so in the long term they lose out

[Beetroot Queen]

Our thornless tayberries  turned out to be nothing more than common blackberries and not tasty ones either. LOL but for a £1 it was worth a try. I would give up yet that little one may suprise you.

[Dave NE]

I bought an apple and plum some years ago at Morrisons, the apple took off but the plum died, my wife was mortified when I took the twig back for a refund, but they paid up, Dave

[Mrs Bee]

I bought an apple and plum some years ago at Morrisons, the apple took off but the plum died, my wife was mortified when I took the twig back for a refund, but they paid up, Dave

Good for you. If that had been us it would have been me taking it back for the refund and Mr Bee taking a back seat and grinning.

[Bigrich]

Just to update: The twig remained a twig and gradually dried out to become a dead dried twig - I threw it away at the weekend
Lesson learned 

[Norfolkgrey]

I know it is a bit late but email their customer services and attach a pic. The worst that happens is they do nothing. More often than not you will get store vouchers back to spend next time you are there.  I done that for the range months after I bought some roses saying I hoped for the best but they have keeled over and they were good about it.

[sunshineband]

I bought a dwarf nectarine in Wyevale's half price end of season sale. It is as dead as a dodo 

I am returning it to the store on Wednesday. I hope the Plant Area Manager either has a living specimen to exchange it for, or he provides me with the cost of a replacement elsewhere (not at half price either!)

I shall let you know how it goes.