Hi tweet, That is a little high, but I'm used to paying about $35-40 for bare tubers. How big is the pot that your's is in? What's the name of it? Don't worry about the cost........they will repay you over and over in beauty. Set the container in the pond so that the top of the soil is about 8" below the water's surface. I have my container on a plastic milk crate. What zone are you in? I give mine about 3-4 pond tabs every month through about September. After all the leaves die in the fall and it has frosted a time or 2, sink it to a lower level of your pond. How big is your pond? How many leaves does your lotus have now? If its in a container, it will need to be thinned every couple of years (in the early spring). That's when you can get more tubers to sell, if that's what you want to do. Do an Internet search on Growing Lotus, and you'll find lots of good info. Enjoy your new plant!

I have not bought furniture on Ebay but have lots of other stuff...I have found that most of the sellers were very nice..the less commercial business it is, usually the nicer they are... had one woman actually wrap something I ordered from her for my sister for Christmas before she mailed it out since I could not get it in time to wrap and ship before the holidays...and she did not charge me for it... just hope they do good job of packing/shipping it--would not want it to be damaged...

Now that we've settled the corporate issue, back to the toothpaste. They really wind up creating a problem for themselves. Making the box to match the tube size would save them money. However, the smaller size makes less room for the billboard advertising on the shelf. And the reason they don't put them on the shelf so the end only shows is the advertisement and eye catch ability of the package. I don't think I really agree that having the end show would save shelf space. The volume of space used is the same and the depth of the shelf allows for certain number depth in the stock. If they had it turned so the end shows, they'd need a certain, specialized shelf to stock it so they probably, in reality, couldn't stock as many items on the shelf, there'd be the dead space behind it. I don't begrudge companies making money. That's why they're in business and without profit they can't hire people, they can't subcontract to other companies, therefore, fewer jobs, less money funding smaller companies. I just have problems with them insulting my intelligence. Problem is, as said, people have price limits on certain things so they don't want the price for the same size to go up, they accept the smaller amount of product, which winds up making more money for the companies. Plus the smaller size often means more waste of product so you have to buy more product sooner. People are strange critters, especially with finances. I remember when P&G made the big push probably about 10 years ago to "compact" their laundry detergent. Essentially they took out a lot of the water in the liquid detergent and made "2x" so you get the same number of loads from a container but it was 1/2 the volume, nearly 1/2 the weight and smaller size and as I recall they dropped the price a bit too. A win in most any way you look at it. More product could go on the same shelf space. It weighed less so easier for employees to handle. Cheaper shipping meaning less fuel used to transport, and there's the water savings too. But at a big drug store chain one old lady was going nuts over it that the store was "cheating" her by making it smaller. She insisted she had to use her measuring cup and was upset. Nobody could get through to her. Some people won't allow themselves to learn.

couple things: 1 - it may sound odd coming from a landscape designer who does scaled plans for everything from a $2000, one day job to a six figure install, but I'm going to have to pump the brakes on the whole notion that one "should" get a detailed drawing, planset, whatever, just based on project size. If one has paid for a scaled, detailed drawing of the area to be designed, then that's what's owed. Otherwise it comes down to whatever documentation makes it clear what work is being performed, who is providing what, what constitutes a completed project, and what makes all parties comfortable. The creation of a landscape master plan is a skill and a service in and of itself. Not every landscape installer is a landscape designer. If no plan is a dealbreaker, step one is hiring someone for the plan. 2 - it's June 1 in what has been, for us and all our colleagues, a banner year. I'd follow up with them if you're serious about going with them. They're probably working 90-100 hours a week like the rest of us are right now. 3 - I agree w/ Embothrium that summer's not the greatest time for planting jobs. We'll only plant in June if there's irrigation, and we generally try to only do hardscapes in July and August. Not sure I agree with their thing about spring planting though, but I'm sure that's a discussion for another day. At this point, I'd say don't rush into anything just to get it done. If you have the confidence in this new team that you described, ping them so they know you're still very interested, and see what they come up with.