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Mail Ordering Your Future Plants

#1 helena

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Posted 06 March 2006 - 02:11 AM

Coveting every plant in Breck's catalog - they have all bulbs imaginable direct from Holland.
What's your reliable source of new and interesting things for the garden?

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#2 helena

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Posted 06 March 2006 - 03:16 AM

just discovered so no personal experience but damn tempted:
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Posted 06 March 2006 - 04:15 AM

gardenweb.com has a seed exchange

Gone fishing for the summer.

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Posted 06 March 2006 - 01:59 PM

helena, on Mar 5 2006, 09:11 PM, said:

Coveting every plant in Breck's catalog - they have all bulbs imaginable direct from Holland.
What's your reliable source of new and interesting things for the garden?

I've used Well-Sweep Farm in Port Murray NJ for many years. It's a delightful ride out in the country to an extensive range of herbs and greenery. (The "Port" in its name comes from the Morris Canal, which passed near the farm.)

Wide range of basils, mints, and other vegetation. Not organic, but they do use their own chicken and sheep compost.

Well-Sweep

My only complaint was that if they need to charge me $30 because they're robbing the duck to pay the boar they might as well give me a more substantial portion of flour, water, and bits of meat.

Orik, on the pasta price at Hearth in NYC

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Posted 06 March 2006 - 02:41 PM

Von Bourgondien's is the catalog I drool over – and order from – the most. I've been happy with everything I've ordered, except for some foxglove, which were miniscule to begin with and didn't take my neglect and abuse kindly.

They have a very liberal wholesale policy: pretty much anyone who orders more than $150 (I think that's the amount) in plants can get wholesale pricing.

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Posted 06 March 2006 - 04:42 PM

White Flower Farm makes me salivate (salveate?). But they're damned expensive. I think that Echinacea 'Harvest Moon' is just about the prettiest one I've seen. And that Daylily mix is stunning. (Edit: I don't garden. I point.)

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Posted 06 March 2006 - 05:02 PM

tanabutler, on Mar 6 2006, 11:42 AM, said:

White Flower Farm ...that Daylily mix is stunning.

We have a gift certificate from White Flower Farm; I'm holding on to it until we can get a certain hillside prepared, at which point I'll order the daylily mix.

Friends of mine have a piece of property with several deep banks cut around it, all of them planted in mixed daylilies (many from White Flower). I'd guess they have nearly a half-acre of daylilies. They have a big cocktail party every summer when the lilies are at their peak (no surprise they call it their Annual Lily Party). I wish I had pictures. It's heartbreakingly beautiful.

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