I don't spend anywhere near the amount of money on plants as some of y'all do, and I don't order on-line very often but I've always felt it's a risk shipping/receiving live plants through the mail, whether 3-4 day Priority, Air Mail, FEDX, UPS ... whatever. I don't think plants are happy to be in a dark box with no air, light or water for that long. Most of the time plants will recover quickly, though sometimes they are a lost cause before we even receive them. As a newbie on DG I had never ordered a plant on-line or had one shipped through the mail, that was such a new experience for this naive older blond, LOL. I've had some good luck as well as not so good luck. It amazes me that some vendors actually guarantee shipped plants. I'm glad the vendor in question is showing good business sense in sending Lynn replacement plants and I'm sure they will be okay.
Gail: Your son was a grower at the young age of 14?! Did he grow anything other than weed? I hope the plants he is interested in nowadays are of a different variety ~ ~ grin ~ ~ Sometimes kids think their parents are so out of the loop and so old fashioned, hope he didn't hold it against his big sister for very long for tattling on him, she may have saved him from himself, LOL.
The lady who is president of our local AV club told us about a time years back when we were having an extremely hot summer (like we are having this year). She said daytime temp's were hanging in the mid 90's with night time temp's around 80º as well, and the lights from her stands being on all day were keeping the house too hot and causing the air conditioning system to be going non stop, running up her electric bill. So, she decided to run the plant stand lights at night. One night around 2:00 a.m. her phone rang and woke her up. She said it was a police dispatcher telling her to open her front door and walk out with her hands up! She said she was half asleep and questioned the caller a few times and the dispatcher said: "Maam, this is not a joke, your house is surrounded and you need to do as I say and open your front door for the officers!" She did and she said there were many patrol cars in front of the house and up and down the street, and police officers surrounding her house! They apparently had been notified by someone about the very bright lights at night and suspected she was growing pot. She told them the lights were for her African Violet collection, invited them in and showed them around to all of her stands (kinda like you Gail, with stands in more than one room, LOL.) I guess they got a kick out of it ... instead of a large Pot Bust it was an AV Bust! ^_^
