I was at one the other day. New violets on the left side of the shelf all new and blooming the violets on the right side, no bloom, dry as a bone and wilted, same price. I got two new ones (like I really needed two more) and when I checked out, the register lady told me the violets on the end cap were from Easter and marked down to $1. and they were blooming and healthy (as healthy as walmart violets get), so I got 4 more. Oh, and yes, all the blooming violets were sopping wet. Yes, I'm glad Walmart still has violets even though they are often the same bloom over and over - which is sad cause there are so many different varieties out there with special leaves and/or georgeous flowers. One of ours has taken out the fabric department, I was really sad about that, but there are other walmarts in my area that still have it and I'm wondering if they are all going to eliminate that. I'm sure violet plants are not one of the big sellers either...I very rarely see anyone buy them. tish

Im sorry Mick. I didnt mean to be offensive or argumentative. Just forget my reaction all together please.It doesnt matter where we purchase palms as long as they look good and are at a resonable price. That does seem like a good price for Wal Mart. You'd think they would try to rip us off, like Home Depot.lol But really I'm sorry if I sounded stupid. Let me know if you buy one and post a picture. Id like to see one.

I was a little afraid they might be too strong tasting, but they weren't. Hopefully no after taste. I did pull most of the skin off.

Well, I hope that someone found it, bought it and took it home with them where it hopefully is someplace warm and frost-free/freeze-free. My big tomato plant is happily residing upstairs in the spare room right beside a south-facing window. I talk to it, thump its blossoms and check its soil moisture daily. A couple of lady bugs that were attempting to overwinter by hibernating in a corner of the spare room woke up in Tuesday's hot weather and now are climbing all over the plants in the room. They must think it is Spring. I do hope the folks at Home Depot in Gainesville brought in all those plants from the garden center or covered them up with a very heavy-duty frost blanket row cover because they had hundreds and hundreds of plants in stock over the weekend. If they had moved the plants, shelving racks and all, someplace indoors it would have filled up an entire 2-car garage with little room to spare, so it was a substantial number of plants. . And, those are just the vegetables, fruits (strawberry plants) and herbs. I'm not as worried about the shrubs and perennials they had on display. On Tuesday it hit 79 degrees at our Mesonet station and 77 degrees at our house, and it didn't just feel warm, it almost felt hot. That sort of weather could give a person planting fever. The bees and the wasps were swarming all day. This morning, though, reality returned and it was 26 degrees at our house and 23 degrees at our Mesonet station this morning around sunrise. Gainesville is at a higher elevation so they might have been slightly warmer, but probably not by much. Our weather is nuts. We've had more than the usual number of grass fires the last couple of days, which is par for the course as winter deepens and fine fuels like grasses become more cured following freezing weather. I'm surprised how many plants have popped up in stores across the state this past week. Even some cool-season plants can freeze or suffer damage with temperatures in the lower 20s, especially if they just came out of a climate-controlled greenhouse before they were shipped to the stores. I just don't understand why so many stores so far north have so many plants. Of course, the stores are happy to sell the plants. And, for the folks who buy those plants and put them into the ground too early, the stores then will happily sell them replacement plants. It is a great business model for the stores---the more plants they sell early which then freeze, the more plants they sell later to replace the frozen ones.