THANK YOU! I was hoping it wasn't incorrect, and I started thinking maybe it was 'Mme Zoetmans', which would be a happy mystery-solved. But I'd rather it be 'Charles de Mills'. And yes, these tiny buds are only just barely uncovered, and what little shows beneath the green is white. So maybe they'll color up in the next few days. I greatly appreciate your guidance here and with my earlier questions, mad_gallica! After my post about how far own-root Gallicas spread, I took a measuring tape to the two beds where I want to plant them. I'll be fine doing 4'-5' between them, as you suggested, especially with one less ('Belle de Crecy' didn't get shipped) and if I put the two or three "less rampant spreaders" ('Nouveau Monde', 'Duchesse d'Angouleme' and/or 'Duchesse de Montebello') elsewhere. :-) ~Christopher

Hi! Apologies for the delay on seeing this post... The photos originally posted plantomaniac08(8) but the photo showing further down is the 'White Stripe' spathiphyllum we used to grow. Sadly, it didn't perform well for us, so we're no longer growing that one. Regarding tags and accuracy: I totally hear you --- our tagging isn't the most accurate in the world. We typically don't go variety-specific on our tags because it makes things MUCH more expensive for us... and we have to keep our costs within the threshold of what our retailer partners are willing to buy our plants for (while still being able to afford to invest in research and development to find and test new plants...). Another problem is that we're human --- everyone makes mistakes and with the volume of plants we produce, it happens from time to time that the wrong tag gets put in the wrong plant. We are always working on making things better, though, and we're testing some different systems that can help us be more specific on tags without becoming crazy expensive. But if you have any questions about our plants, please don't hesitate to reach out to me. Oh, and by the way: I'm working to get every plant we sell photographed and put up on the website with the variety name, but it's a slow process... ---Justin, Costa Farms

Update. I'm too cheap to buy the tags (I need over 100 of them), but I have a refrigerator outside full of canned soda pop and beer, so this week, I'll be enjoying a couple cans a day. I cut open a Pepsi can yesterday, cut it into tags, punched a hole with a hole puncher, and those tags are easy to emboss with a ball point pen. I laid the aluminum on a mouse pad to do the embossing. I'm thrilled. They were FREE!! I put the year of first leaf on the tags also so I'll know how old the plants are as life goes on. I will admit, my aluminum can tags look pretty tacky next to your fancy copper tag, though.

As a person who works in a Garden Center, we get a LOT of switched tags.. or people who pull up a tag, walk around with it, then decide they don't want it nor the plant it belonged too.. and thus throw the tag on the floor, or shove it somewhere it doesn't belong(A tomato is NOT a marigold). They also let their children run around and pull tags, not caring whatsoever that it's akin to pulling off books from a bookshelf and throwing them on the floor. It's very frustrating, at we get double tags-no tags a lot, and we have to discount those because who wants a plant they know nothing about? A flat of 3-pack mystery plants went for 5$ because there was literally no other way to get it out of the store because no one wanted it. I will say I'm rather happy, having scored myself a mystery plant that appears to be some sort of heirloom. ;) We'll see what happens as it gets bigger!