chrisy
Well-known member
I can see how it could happen. So, be careful !!!!
This happened in Columbus, Ms !!
I almost had a heart attack this week. My son got me a potted plant for my birthday kept it on my kitchen counter the whole time and this week it was warm enough to plant outside so I took it out to plant tried to get it out of pot with no luck so I wet it really good and the plant came out it was in a decorative glass container with no holes in it and had another pot cut and wedged into the glass pot so after i planted the flower I got a knife to get the plastic pot from the glass one had to wedge a knife around the sides to get it out when I did this something moved I told Ron it looked like a snake, so I called my son out he took the liner out to our surprise low and behold not one snake but two baby copper heads. I almost died been upset since then. when we took the plastic pot from the glass one there was a piece of card board up the side of we think that there must have been eggs in the holes of the card board at the growers and when it got hot they must have hatched out. . I am sending you pictures. take my advise don't bring plants inside. this could have been really - really bad . This plant was bought at the grocery store. I will not give the name of the store I don't want to ruin there business but will tell you if you ask just don't want to put the name on the news i'm sure it wasn't anything they knew about it's the grower that should be more careful in potting theses plants. I just want to warn you guys not to bring plants inside who know what could be leaking way down under those roots I am only thankful it was not a plant to be kept inside
not sure if this is true, but this is an e-mail sent to me so beware when repotting. the snakes would be dead by the time they got here, as it is to cold for them.
This happened in Columbus, Ms !!
I almost had a heart attack this week. My son got me a potted plant for my birthday kept it on my kitchen counter the whole time and this week it was warm enough to plant outside so I took it out to plant tried to get it out of pot with no luck so I wet it really good and the plant came out it was in a decorative glass container with no holes in it and had another pot cut and wedged into the glass pot so after i planted the flower I got a knife to get the plastic pot from the glass one had to wedge a knife around the sides to get it out when I did this something moved I told Ron it looked like a snake, so I called my son out he took the liner out to our surprise low and behold not one snake but two baby copper heads. I almost died been upset since then. when we took the plastic pot from the glass one there was a piece of card board up the side of we think that there must have been eggs in the holes of the card board at the growers and when it got hot they must have hatched out. . I am sending you pictures. take my advise don't bring plants inside. this could have been really - really bad . This plant was bought at the grocery store. I will not give the name of the store I don't want to ruin there business but will tell you if you ask just don't want to put the name on the news i'm sure it wasn't anything they knew about it's the grower that should be more careful in potting theses plants. I just want to warn you guys not to bring plants inside who know what could be leaking way down under those roots I am only thankful it was not a plant to be kept inside
not sure if this is true, but this is an e-mail sent to me so beware when repotting. the snakes would be dead by the time they got here, as it is to cold for them.
