Catalog Review: Bluestone Perennials

On one side of me , a six - year - old is sing the theme to SpongeBob SquarePants as loud as she can . On the other side , an eighteen - month old screams out for “ more bah - bo , ” whatever that is . I am blissfully incognizant of any of it because the Bluestone Perennials catalog has arrived .

This catalog carry the same wonders as others that make us long for their arrival in the mail . What make water this one dear to me are all the picture : side - by - side ( unremarkably ) comparisons of different cultivars that say much more to me than any poetic verbal description could . They usually bear the consecutive species ( or the most common cultivar ) of a recurrent so I can see whether the dissimilar varieties are an advance . The fiddling symbols for bloom time and appropriate vulnerability are easy to grasp at a coup d’oeil make checking back a breeze .

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I have set up from the ship’s company numerous times . I bang that the perennial usually follow in pack of three ( it is operose to design with groups of one ) . Like most mail - gild plants , they are small when they go far , but chop-chop flourish . I have had a few failures , but they have a generous return policy and a truly helpful customer service staff ( which , for me , makes all the difference ) . Even better : every rescript is transport with a little coupon script , and you may send off back your packing material so they can re - use it again ( and you get a discount , I cerebrate ) .

Update from Bluestone , December 2011Bluestone no longer uses the three - pack plastic cell packs . The company has changed over to a 100 % biodegradable , plantable pot , made from coconut fiber husks . That has allowed them to get all of the non - recyclable plastic material and shipping peanuts out of their dispatch . Also , the plant are growing much faster and more robustly than in the charge plate sess .

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