Cultivating Ramblers

[AnonYMouse]

*This is a rant disguised as an opening to a discussion.*

How do you feel about vendors (who shall remain nameless) who sell unwieldy sprawly plants? I have had multiple vendors send me plants (notably Bulbos) that are nearly impossible to pot up or mount (okay, I exaggerate but I used an awful lot of pins and clips).

One came in a pot; one pbulb in a pot, three in the air. Another bare root, three branch section that never touched media (measure off a length of aerial rhizome and clip). Imagine the way Schoenorchis gemmata grows but with less foliage.

Bulbos are crawlers and climbers and it probably is too much to expect a commercial grower to cultivate individual plants but I'm not used to these wild things! Until I started acquiring Bulbos a couple of years ago, all my plants were tidy. I have Neos whose foliage and roots are trained!

I don't know how many more Bulbos I'll acquire but I'm going to be more discerning.