So I was at this store earlier, Meijer, a huge Wal Mart-like store with an actual plant section. They had all these big, overpriced blooming Phals filling up their shelf, and several feet behind them were two lone Phals, one of which had lost all its flowers and had several dead-looking roots (but also some healthy roots). Also it had no price tag.
I tried to see if I could get a big discount on that one, since obviously nobody was going to buy it at full price and they were probably going to get rid of it anyway. But no, turns out they have some kind of deal with the supplier, and they have to either sell it at full price or send it back.
Oh well, Lowe's has clearance racks, and earlier this year an employee marked a cactus down to 50 cents for me because I found it randomly on the ground without a pot anywhere to be seen. So it's only a matter of time before I find a dirt-cheap, healthy-but-just-not-blooming orchid there. I do actually want a couple mini Phals anyway to flank my big Phal. (Also the one I tried to rescue was another big one, so uhh, I'm not totally sure where I would've put it, unless I could cram it in next to my current one)
Almost rescued an orchid
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