The Wackiest Nursery I Know
I end up visiting a lot of nursery websites as I research plants for articles.
I noticed from time to time that I ended up at one called TyTy Nursery.
Each time I noticed how strange the pictures were, but didn’t think much of it.
One day I actually stopped and started laughing at the pictures on the page. I started clicking around to the different plants and noticed that all the pictures featured plants that had images like bikini-clad women and shirtless men inserted.
I visited again today for a giggle and noticed that it’s gotten even better – now they have videos, too! I watched the one about the “Italian White Fig Tree”, fascinated as someone moved a fig around the screen, with a painting of an Italian street in the background.
I do wonder how much research they put into these videos. I watched one about the “wildlife strawberry bush”. The strawberry bush (Euonymus americanus) is a native US plant that is also called fun names like wahoo and hearts-a-bustin’.
The first picture of fruit they show, however, is that of the strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo). Most of the other pictures do seem to actually belong to the strawberry bush, though I saw another picture later featuring strawberry tree fruit.
I can understand to some degree how it happened, with similar names, and the fruits look vaguely similar (emphasis on vague). However, a good nursery should make sure that they are advertising the right plant.
I did want to include a disclaimer: I write about this nursery for the photo/video entertainment value only. I have not personally shopped with them, but my research about the company turned up a lot of…interesting opinions that would make me very hesitant to place an order.
What’s your favorite video or picture from TyTy Nursery?
October 1st, 2009 at 11:39 am
What an odd site. After reading the comments from the Dave’s Garden forum, I checked out the Ty Ty photos and they are strange. But one was particularly strange in that it showed a plant in a Monrovia nursery branded container. So I sent an email to Monrovia bringing it to their attention. I would hate to see a nursery like Ty Ty using images of quality plants to sell their products.
October 2nd, 2009 at 4:48 am
Thank you for the heads up about this site. It is a good one to stay away from.
Have a good day.
Dan and Deanna “Marketing Unscrambled”