Subject: {!name} - Choosing Plants that are Healthy

Hey {!name},

QUOTE: Green fingers are the extension
of a verdant heart. - Russell Page

When you are buying or receiving plants
from someone there are a few things
that you need to look at before
deciding to plant them in your garden.

You will generally get a better quality
plant from a garden center and it will
be less likely to have disease or other
problems that could spread to other
plants in your garden.

There is still the possibility that the
garden center plant might not be the
healthy specimen that you might expect
so you should still check it out before
parting with your money.

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The first thing you need to do is look
at the plant and see whether it looks
healthy. This might seem very obvious
but we often assume that buying from a
garden center will assure us of a
healthy plant when in actual fact even
garden centers can have problem plants
and you don't want to be the new owner
of their problems.

Plants are very good at showing any
signs of distress so a plant that
doesn't look healthy, generally isn't.

Check the conditions of the leaves,
stems and roots of the plant where
possible. You should also look at the
condition of the soil that it has been
growing in, as this will have had an
effect on its health.

If you are buying flowering plants it
is always best to buy the ones that
have yet to flower, as they will
withstand the trauma of transport and
transplanting better than those that
already have flowers. If there is no
alternative but to buy or receive
plants that already have flowers then
many people suggest that you should
remove all the flowers to give the
plant a better chance of survival.
While you might be reluctant to do so,
you will probably have a better plant
that will produce more flowers in the
future.

If there is anything on the plant that
concerns you seek advice or decide
against having that plant in your
garden

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