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mail order

	In the past five years or so, we've been fortunate in
Champaign-Urbana, Illinois to have a number of great local nurseries
that can provide lots of perennials each spring, but when I first
started gardening here many years ago, mail order catalogues were the
only source for anything but the most common annual bedding plants and
well-known perennials.
	Most of the success with mail-order plants depends on the
quality of the plants grown by the particular mail-order nursery and the
method of shipping.  Some of the success depends on the weather when you
receive your package and start getting them established.
	I have had very good success with Bluestone Perennials in Ohio
(for young perennial seedlings); Milaegers in Racine, Wisconsin (for all
sorts of perennials and prairie plants), White Flower Farm in
Litchfield, Connecticut (for perennials and for bulbs), Nature's Garden
in Oregon (for ferns and wildflowers), Siskiyou (for alpines), Van
Engelen (for bulbs), Richters (for herbs).  I have a gardening wizard
friend who also recommends Mount Tacoma, WeDu, Roslyn, Heronswood, and
Greer Gardens for western and woody plants, unusual perennials and
woodlanders, and rhododendrons.

Susan Campanini
in east central Illinois
zone 5b, min temp -15F?
e-mail:  campanin@uiuc.edu
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