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Ask a Walmart Garden Center Employee Anything.

I'd love to see your spread ABG - I spent 2 years working for Rod McLellan breeding paphiopetalum orchids and working as the head grower for their "Spa for Orchids" - people paid to house their private collections that would otherwise die in their apartments. When in spike they'd pick up the plants, get them to within an inch of death, then return them to me to perform miracles and resurrect them.

It was a horrible, thankless job, but I got to play with 1,000s of interesting & often rare orchids. My favorite to this day is the Catasetum. Not the rarest thing, but interesting as it had a green flower (which as I understand was believed to be impossible in plants for a long time) and we had one that would launch a pollen ball about 20' at the touch of a pen. It was pretty awesome. I have many favorites, but that was just flippin cool.

I'm sure you have some fantastic specimens out there. I was on the big island last August and through a friend of a friend met the owners of Orchid People, who became fans of my sauce & invited me to tour their nurseries - I was in hog heaven.
:woohoo:

Brutal business though - a lot of snobs and a lot of $$$ (which I guess go hand in hand, but not always) - nice to know there are more orchid growers/fans out there who are good people. :cheers:
 
Fremp said:
Rigorous use of well-defined modular interfaces, including object-oriented descriptions of module functionality. The use of Scientific testing cannot produce "absolute truth" because scientific tests assume principles, values, methods and measures outside of the scope of the test. Rather, the scientific method is used to proof the integrity of a value system and to establish its conclusions as consistent with the assumptions used, thereby enabling further extrapolation within that domain.
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Dude, you pulled this right out of my college marketing textbook! :rofl:
 
ABG/LDHS -

I've come to enjoy photographing orchids ...

We have a fairly well-regarded orchid institution here (Selby Botanical Gardens) and it's quite relaxing to shoot them ... and fortunately, they change out the specimens frequently, which keeps it interesting ...

This reminds me ... I haven't been for a while ...
 
Arenal Botanical Garden said:
Be patient amigo.
In the interim, enjoy. http://www.orchidboard.com/community/
P.S. You remember American farms or Lovell farms out of south Floridastan ? We delivered nation wide( at least right coast)
I was the large drunk guy delivering all of those useless annuals(via Peterbuilt) at dark thirty every night.
Low level is a state of mind.Not a job. Congressional bacterial infections are the bottom level.
We just do what we have to do.
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I'm not very familiar with the flower vendors, they usially came in the morning before I got to work. I delt more with Bonnie and gas vendors.
 
grantmichaels said:
We have a fairly well-regarded orchid institution here (Selby Botanical Gardens) and it's quite relaxing to shoot them ... and fortunately, they change out the specimens frequently, which keeps it interesting ...
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SRQ is such an awesome place, even if it is dangerous to drive during the early bird dinner hour. I worked at MCC, USF-SRQ and New College for several years. Miss that place. I don't miss the cheese and crackers at the Bahai Hut, but I do miss the occasional Hob Nob.

Luckily my WM is a great place. Very clean, and avocados are usually 60 cents each and Barefoot is almost always under $5, never above $6. I have seen some bad ones (Odessa comes to mind) though. Also, mine has a Murphy gas station with B10 diesel fuel.

ABG, I just saw Imperial beer at the store. I can't remember if that is the good brand. Can you please advise?
 
Chewi said:
SRQ is such an awesome place, even if it is dangerous to drive during the early bird dinner hour. I worked at MCC, USF-SRQ and New College for several years. Miss that place. I don't miss the cheese and crackers at the Bahai Hut, but I do miss the occasional Hob Nob.
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The only reason to be at the Bahai Hut is for the mai tai's! ... whoosh, strong!

This place would be perfect ... if only it had a tech scene ...

Cheers!
 
Your a debbie downer to much carvin

Its the internet... best place to ask the questions you wouldnt ask in person :) have fun. Its fun
 
Why does the Panorama City Wally world suck(shelves full of opened product,Employees that barely speak English or just act like you are bothering them) while the Porter Ranch one is well stocked and Employees are helpful.

Why will one Wallmart order stuff you want that is out of stock while the other refuses to even consider it?
I wanted a bike that was sold out at Porter Ranch.They told me they would get it from another store if I left a deposite.
I paid in full and they didn't charge me to put it together 2 days latter when they called me to pick it up.
I rode the bike home-nice ride,several miles.
Probably beat the bus home... LOL

I don't drive,the bus is my Limo...
Taking a bus to Porter Ranch takes a good part of my day-waiting for buses/transferes I missed by 30 seconds and late buses etc.
The Panorama City one,even on a screwed up day is a 1 hour trip both ways including buying what I wanted.

I buy a lot of large bags of chunk Hickory for the price of a small bag of chips from other stores than at the wallmart in Porter Ranch.
Panorama City doesn't carry it EVER.
I offered to pay in advance if they would get Porter Ranch to send them some for me.
They refused at Panorama City the few times I was ever allowed to talk to the Garden Dept head(who I was told I had to talk to).

Porter Ranch always has been helpful if I ask about any products.If some one doesn't know they page some one who does.
Porter Ranch doesn't need a crowbar to get my wallet open.
Panorama City does.No matter what the price,I don't like buying stuff that was opened up etc. for the full price...
Panorama City sucks big time.
I thought all Wallmarts were supposed to be the same...

As far as Backtits,is that what lifer prison inmates play with before the reach around?
I don't know but I read it on the internet - it must be true. :)
 
CarvinGuitarist said:
Why would anyone want to ask a Walmart garden center employee questions anyhow? :rolleyes:
Talk about rediculous posts.
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Why not? I mean... you DID just ask me a question.

smokemaster said:
Why does the Panorama City Wally world suck(shelves full of opened product,Employees that barely speak English or just act like you are bothering them) while the Porter Ranch one is well stocked and Employees are helpful.

Why will one Wallmart order stuff you want that is out of stock while the other refuses to even consider it?
I wanted a bike that was sold out at Porter Ranch.They told me they would get it from another store if I left a deposite.
I paid in full and they didn't charge me to put it together 2 days latter when they called me to pick it up.
I rode the bike home-nice ride,several miles.
Probably beat the bus home... LOL

I don't drive,the bus is my Limo...
Taking a bus to Porter Ranch takes a good part of my day-waiting for buses/transferes I missed by 30 seconds and late buses etc.
The Panorama City one,even on a screwed up day is a 1 hour trip both ways including buying what I wanted.

I buy a lot of large bags of chunk Hickory for the price of a small bag of chips from other stores than at the wallmart in Porter Ranch.
Panorama City doesn't carry it EVER.
I offered to pay in advance if they would get Porter Ranch to send them some for me.
They refused at Panorama City the few times I was ever allowed to talk to the Garden Dept head(who I was told I had to talk to).

Porter Ranch always has been helpful if I ask about any products.If some one doesn't know they page some one who does.
Porter Ranch doesn't need a crowbar to get my wallet open.
Panorama City does.No matter what the price,I don't like buying stuff that was opened up etc. for the full price...
Panorama City sucks big time.
I thought all Wallmarts were supposed to be the same...

As far as Backtits,is that what lifer prison inmates play with before the reach around?
I don't know but I read it on the internet - it must be true. :)
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Some walmart stores are just better than others. Every store has their own profit strategy which is also why stores don't price match from other walmart stores. If the employees are rude and not helpful you should speak to the store manager or even go up to the market manager whose contact info should be posted in the stores site to store area.

Some stores just suck. The store I work in is by far superior to the other store in my location.
 
I have four walmarts within about 15 minutes of my house, three are equidistant and one is a little further, but not significantly so.

If a bus leaves walmart A traveling at 35 miles an hour heading towards walmart B, and another bus leaves walmart B traveling towards walmart A at 65 miles an hour, what is the cross street where they will meet?

Ok, just kidding.

What does walmart really do with the "dead" plants?
 
What does Walmart's recycling program entail that prevents them from being able to give empty icing buckets and produce boxes to customers?
 
jsschrstrcks said:
I have four walmarts within about 15 minutes of my house, three are equidistant and one is a little further, but not significantly so.

If a bus leaves walmart A traveling at 35 miles an hour heading towards walmart B, and another bus leaves walmart B traveling towards walmart A at 65 miles an hour, what is the cross street where they will meet?

Ok, just kidding.

What does walmart really do with the "dead" plants?
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We toss them in the compactor with the rest of the garbage.


yemtol said:
What does Walmart's recycling program entail that prevents them from being able to give empty icing buckets and produce boxes to customers?
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We bale out cardboard and send it to be recycled. Our store will give away boxes, you come and ask and they give you all the boxes from a stocked department. The deal is you take all or none. As far as the buckets go, I am not really sure why they wont give an empty bucket. I do know that all recycling information is logged and turned into the EPA. Walmart is a huge company and could do sevier enviromental harm if it did not handle its waste responsibly.
 
grantmichaels said:
The only reason to be at the Bahai Hut is for the mai tai's! ... whoosh, strong!

This place would be perfect ... if only it had a tech scene ...

Cheers!
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My girlfriend is from SRQ. I told her someone on here mentioned the Bahai hut, she said they have a two drink limit on them Mai Tai? lemme at em! I have never been. But i spent much time in dat hood.


This thread is great, I don't even care. More people at other professions should offer up such valuable information
 
HigherThisHeat said:
My girlfriend is from SRQ. I told her someone on here mentioned the Bahai hut, she said they have a two drink limit on them Mai Tai? lemme at em! I have never been. But i spent much time in dat hood.
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That's a #truestory. The ethical solution is to drink the designated driver's drinks ... all problems solved.
 
Thing is,if you have the two....then you end up at the Cheetah. I 'heard' that place is expensive. In a twisted way, its not too far from WalMart!
 
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