National Plant Network 3.25 in. Buddleia Butterfly Bush Dwarf Dapper Lavender (3-Pack)

Plants were dying when they were picked up at the store. After a week of watering and nurturing, half are barely alive - the rest are withered sticks.

These are live plants yet TSC shipped them by snail mail/trucking. It took a week to arrive-which is ok for some species of plants IF they are packed properly. But TSC doesn't do that. These plants, which cost $10/each, were put into an enclosed cardboard shipping box, taped up, and shipped in the heat of the summer with no hydration and no light, for 7 days. These aren't big, healthy, mature plants that can withstand extremes, these are small (tiny really), plants that are very vulnerable to heat and water stresses. I've purchased a lot of plants online (with other vendors not named TSC) over the years, and they ALWAYS arrive in just a few days and have hydration beads in the soil. They arrive moist, thriving, and ready to plant. Sadly, but not surprisingly, TSC doesn't feel the need to take that extra effort nor have the care to deliver a quality product. If they did, they'd have shipped these plants properly. As it is, I picked up a box of half-dead plants with leaves falling off, that I'm now trying to revive. Not cool TSC.