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  1. Fat Controller

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    Anyone fancy a guess? You get extra points if you also guess its origin..

    2015-06-23 15.19.19-1.jpg
     
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    I feel like i know what it is but cant think

    I say this but chances are i havnt got a clue
     
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    Sorry.... No idea :(
     
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    An ex Brugmansia from T&M?
     
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      pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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      Dont think it was my one.
      Mine was in a Stella Artois box. :biggrin:
       
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        ... soon to be marked: "Return to Sender"
        T&M
         
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          And top marks go to @longk!

          Yes, it is an ex brugmansia from T&M that I was silly enough to use gift vouchers on, thinking that having two of them can't be that bad...

          @pete - here are the ones you sent me :ThankYou:

          2015-06-23 19.30.48.jpg

          Just shows how much more of a gardener you are than T&M! (PS - please excuse the couple of sickly tomatoes sneaking into this picture - no idea why I haven't binned them to be fair, its not as though I am short of tomato plants..)
           
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            Damn my first thought was brug because it looks plasticy but i thought i was wrong. I need to trust my first instinct
             
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              I have emailed them and told them that I have the plant in 'sick bay' at the moment, and I will probably get the usual guff apologising and sending me a refund via promotional vouchers that expire in next to no time.

              Best of it is, I can't even get angry at them as it is my fault - I know what they are like, but still I thought I would give them a shot.
               
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                It really wasn't hard was it? The plant id was easy (what was left of it anyway) and T&M's reputation does rather precede them!

                The packaging is astounding!
                 
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                  I think Royal Fail deserve a mention too - it was despatched on Thursday, so has been in transit for almost a week which certainly won't have helped matters
                   
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                    They probably sent it over to Canada to be used as a football in the Womens World Cup looking at the state of it!
                     
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                      I know it looks awful, but I do actually think it will recover fairly quickly, as long as its well rooted.
                      But no excuse for that packaging from a company that "specialises" in mail order.
                       
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                        Mail order is an anagram of ...





                        ... dire moral :lunapic 130165696578242 5: :lunapic 130165696578242 5: :lunapic 130165696578242 5:
                         
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                          As soon as I saw the photo I knew it was T&M. They're crap!
                           
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