A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion Landscape trials and triumphs What mail order catalogs do you recommend?

Have you had personal experience with any? I have had a couple people mention some that they were less than thrilled with.. I have only ordered online or from catalogs a couple times.. Am I better off to buy in person?

I rcommend Burpee.Their seeds r AWESOME!!!

I recommend Stark Bros and Henry Fields (my dad has ordered from them for years)

i recommend bulbs and seed only no matter who you order from.
i have had a lot of bad luck with so called rootings and live plants.
get em fom your local nursery and be sure you look at em before you buy em.
sure they have a guarentee,but who REALLY wants to deal with that and the season you lose while dealing with it?
with the exception of bleeding hearts, i have never had good luck with ordering
root bundles.

I have always had better luck buying plants locally if I can find them. I agree with porter that ordering bulbs have given me great success. The bulbs if you see them cheap online are a good bargin. The places I have ordred from that are as big and good as buying locally from are.,

Gilbert H Wild (Daylilies, bulbs)
Hallson Garden (hostas, shade garden plants)
Squaw Mountain Gardens (Semps, succulents)
Mountain Crest Gardens (Perrenials, succulents, Semps)

May i recomend michigan bulb, they have a lifetime warrenty on thier plants if they die on you or do not grow simply tell them they will give you your money back or replace it free of charge... my great grandma orders fromt ehm all the time. Me personally i havent ordered from a catalog because i like my plants to slredy have their leaves and stuff... but if i want something i cant find locally i will order from a catalog..

I tried to use a bulb as a lightbulb.it didnt work.i must have gone nuts

Michigan bulb sends very small plants. toposh your grandmother propably has good luck because you have a milder winter than us in a colder zone. I have ordered from them when they send free 25 free nothing else to buy coupons.

When I get them I put them in a nursery bed and baby them for a year.

Yeah, I think I have to agree.. I am going to stick with seeds and bulbs with the mail order companies I think. And buy my plants in person.