Toolbelt, your garden is gorgeous!

When a local nursery here wanted 10 of my Royalty Raspberries they gave me an $8 credit each. They sold them each for $10 and made $100 cash. The credit I was given I used to buy plants at their nursery. They got $10 each in real money for the raspberries but when I went to use my credit...the plants that I got from them, didn't cost them the same amount that they were marked as, because they would have purchased those plants at wholesale prices, so, maybe only $20 for an $80 marked up price. So if my $80 credit is only in reality costing them $20 then they just made a profit of $80 on my raspberries ($100 to sell the raspberries for minus the real cost of the plants that I bought with my $80 credit note.) Make sense? So, what I am saying is that if they offer you a credit of $300 it does seem low, because they will sell each of them for $125. They make $500 cash on the bushes. Then, your credit of $300 only costs them maybe...$50 'cause they will have purchased the plants you are interested in at wholesale prices. So, sale of your bushes at their nursery ($500) minus the real cost of your credit ($50) is $450 clear in their books. Not bad for them, assuming that they can sell them, which is a chance that they will be taking. On the other hand, these trees that you have that are available to be sold, as I am assuming that you don't need them in your own landscaping projects. If you can get a $300 credit for them that is better then them just sitting around not being properly used in your landscaping. Why not go for it? Get other plants that you can use. Or, get hardscaping items or chemicals (which will actually cost them more than the plant material cause they won't have as much markup.) If you think $300 is not enough, then negotiate. You know that they will make $500. Ask for a $350 or $400 credit and see what they say. Be open and maybe??? What do you think? Brenda

That's great news! Happy cooking -

Dang, Carol, I KNEW I forgot something. It was the Silly String. Carp! Thanks, Donna, but I found some at the mediterranean store. A day too late, I'd already made the hummus, LOL, and vowed to not buy anything until I cleaned that packed-to-the-shelves pantry! As for leftovers, I have to admit that the hummus stayed at my house, along with the end of the bruschetta, the last of SharonCB's salmon pie and a bit of Linda's Wild Rice Soup. Darn it, I deserve SOME leftovers! Annie