Rate Your Mail Order Purchases

[Mike Ireland]

Ordered Clematis alpinas & macropetalas from Taylors Clematis.  Courier delivered next day, packaging and condition of the plants was superb.

Mike

[Maggi Young]

 That's great  Alan and Mike.... all service should be like that, eh?



Alberto... sadly such an experience is not uncommon in the UK. 

[Ezeiza]

Maggi, I know. It has always been intriguing if they sent so many virused bulbs because the recipient was abroad (Argentina in this case).

On the other hand, a lot of garden hybrids are virused and have been for decades. In narcissi, 'Tete a Tete' is an obvious example, lots of stock is heavily virused and you can also find tissue cultured material that is incomparably vigorous.

[Gerry Webster]

I'd heard that stocks of 'Tete a Tete' (or some of them) are virused & I'm also deeply suspicious of imported bulbs.  So, on a visit to a garden centre this morning I had a look at about 30-40 pots in flower & I have to say that I could see virus symptoms in none of them. Perhaps the symptoms develop after flowering? Perhaps these were microprops? If so, I wouldn't touch them with a bargepole - I prefer plants which are perennial.

[Maggi Young]

I'm also deeply suspicious of imported bulbs.

 I'm sorry to say that I have received virused bulbs from British nurseries who  claim to grow all their own stocks, so there is no simple answer for this problem.
I much prefer to obtain bulbs from the likes of dedicated specialists on a smaller scale, like Anne Wright. 

[Ezeiza]

Gerry, the virused 'Tete a Tete' show notoriously striped and longitudinally distorted foliage. Symptoms do not show themselves in the flowers. If the plants you saw had normal foliage, they must have been part of the tissue cleaned stock.

[manicbotanic]

i have always had good plants well packed from edrom..

[shelagh]

I have to say that Gerd Stopp's plants are packaged to perfection, heartily recommended.

[David Nicholson]

For Primulas Philip Bankead sends out some lovely plants and they are always well packed.

http://www.primulasandauriculas.com/index.html

[daveyp1970]

Can anybody recommend this nursery http://www.floramontana.de/pflanzen.html   i like his dwarf iris.



 Edit by maggi to fix the link

[ruweiss]

David, Hans Martin's nursery has a very good reputation among the german rockgardeners.
As an experienced and professional gardener he cultivates his plants without much protection in a very rough climate in an elevation of 500m, so they stay healthy and compact. He worked for a long time in botanical gardens and
keeps  good contact to other good growers and seed collectors.

After my retirement 4 years ago (after 14 years) from organizing the Czech-German rockgarden-
meeting I was so happy,that he overtook this job immediately and  must say, that he does  this
sometimes not so easy work perfectly.
Of course I am also a happy customer.
The correct adress is www.floramontana.de

[Lesley Cox]

While I'm not in a position to recommend that nursery Davey, I can certainly recommend his irises and many other plants he lists. I could have a lot of fun there, if only I could.

[Houseslippers]

What a wonderful forum this is. I've just spent a happy hour looking at Taylor's clematis nursery after Mike's recommendation, then got waylaid into Marcus Dancer's Clematis site, then got wistful about getting hold of a true Clematis texensis ... is there no end to the 'wants' list daydreaming?

[Maggi Young]

... is there no end to the 'wants' list daydreaming?

I do hope not.... that's the kind of wants list I can afford!

[Graham Catlow]

For Primulas Philip Bankead sends out some lovely plants and they are always well packed.

http://www.primulasandauriculas.com/index.html

I can confirm that David. Had a great deal and great plants well packaged.