Re: CULT:CAT: evaluation of iris sources criteria?

Christian,

>promptness isn't an issue with shipping iris...

Did you mean shipping here?   Seemed like it was more something about prompt
contact with the supplier.

Anyway...

>So what criteria do you use
>for determineing who gets your iris business?

1.  Experience.  There just has to be a first time sometime.
2.  They have something I want - or at least think I want.
3.  Word of mouth from other irisophiles.

My own experiences have been pretty good to outstanding.  That makes me a
loyal repeat customer until I get a strong hankering for something not
listed or have acquired and attempted to grow to enough of what's on offer
that my choices get a bit limited.  I hate that because I am a loyal
customer.  Unbelievably, I have managed to keep my supplier list reasonably
short.  I haven't tried to order from everyone, so there are surely many
good suppliers I've not used.  I do try to concentrate my orders around
cultivars that I want badly and then try to get enough to make a decent
order for the supplier.  Depending on how many I'm ordering can keep me from
ordering from a supplier, even though they have served me well.  If I stick
to my pledge not to order so many this year, then I will be ordering from
even fewer in number.  I need to get some space prepared ahead of time and
get those seedlings on a revolving door schedule.  THEN I can splurge again.

Donald Eaves
donald@eastland.net
Texas Zone 7b, USA

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