Re: Heronswood

Now being honest, where did you buy plants at this
season? The high priced smaller nurseries or .....
Donna, you are preaching to the choir. ;+)
I don't mean to come across as a plant snob, but we on this list are different from the general population of garden decorators; most of us are true gardeners. We look for special items; we don't just accept what Home Depot and Wal-Mart dictate our gardens should grow.

I recently drove an 80mile round trip to a little nursery run by a teenager and his mother to get a plant you can't find here in town. I have always ordered the bulk of my plants and the ones for the display gardens via mailorder, including Heronswood. But I'm also a smart shopper and while getting mulch at Lowe's I was surprised to find a really nice Songbird Hydrangea for a song, so I snatched it up. I also came home with 5 really nice plants from our MG plant sale and have my eye on a couple more in our next 2 sales.

Education is the key. To the garden decorators, the homeowners who don't know much more than that they want a pretty bush or a perennial that "blooms all summer" (hah!) they have been trained to go to the big box stores. They aren't even aware of the out of the way greenhouses or that mailordering plants exists beyond Michigan Bulb. That's one of the things we do as MGs, we educate. We suggest better sources.

Kitty
Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna" <gossiper@sbcglobal.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 9:16 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Heronswood


I believe this is a sign of the times. The little guys
are having a hard time making ends meet for so many
reasons.

We, the hobbiest, are partly to blame by not
supporting them totally. We might buy some plants, but
others are bought from the big box stores/ebay/etc at
reduced rates or just at sale times.. cuts that profit
margin down for them and stretches the ends even
further.

Now being honest, where did you buy plants at this
season? The high priced smaller nurseries or .....

Donna
who only bought from two places so far this year...
one mail order and a smaller local nursery (who had a
nice discount coupon, so I am no better than most of
you)


--- "Christopher P. Lindsey" <lindsey@mallorn.com>
wrote:


> Their web site is still up and active.  Hmmm. I
couldn't get the article to
> come up for me.

Hi Bonnie,

   They're just shutting down the physical nursery.
The online presence
   will remain.  Shipping, etc. is moving to
Burpee's main office.

   Here's some other articles.

      http://hort.net/+13gQ
      http://hort.net/+13gP

Chris

http://www.bonvivantnursery.com/
Bon Vivant Nursery
http://www.hort.net/sHORTurl/
Shorten your URLs!
http://www.hort.net/gallery/      3961 online plant
photos and growing!



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