I don't call this gardening ,I call this greed !! God help us when plants and gardeners become the play things of Wall Street. ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Waddick" <jwaddick@kc.rr.com> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 10:05 PM Subject: [pbs] HInes Bankruptcy > > Dear All, > This may be off topic to a certain degree, but I just learned > that Hines Hort., the 2nd largest commercial nursery in the US filed > for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 a few weeks ago. There is > an interesting commercial nursery blog discussion at > http://thegoldengecko.com/blog/?p=230 tracing Hines' problem to the > practices of big box stores. > > The big box stores get plants from growers at no cost. They > pay only for those that sell. If they die under the box store care or > just get discarded at the end of the season, the box store has no > investment and the grower takes all the risks. > > Some of this may of interest to some of you. I found it > intriguing especially in context of the US economy. > > Best Jim W. > -- > Dr. James W. Waddick > 8871 NW Brostrom Rd. > Kansas City Missouri 64152-2711 > USA > Ph. 816-746-1949 > Zone 5 Record low -23F > Summer 100F + > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > >