Sorry to find this post so late, but I've found the best place to go is Davesgarden.com and click on Garden Watchdog. Then either enter your zip code to find places close to home that mostly do mail order, or look at the list of top 30 mail order nurseries. I believe you would be quite satisfied ordering from any one of those top 30 sites. Read a lot of the feedback before you order. I've ordered from Bluestone Perrenials (waited for their big spring sale) and got exactly what people had said I would get = inexpensive, healthy, very small plants. I planted them July 4th after holding them 3 weeks, and now in Nov. they are huge! Here is a link that might be useful: Dave's Garden Watchdog

Your list intrigued me for an odd reason: WHAT catalogue were you getting all that stuff from? A lot of those prices were positively off the wall! (At least two mail-order and several nurseries come to mind where you could get Rosemary 'Arp' for about $6., not $11.) Expense aside, the REAL issue, as many have pointed out, is WHERE are they all going? After just one winter of having to hold over a zillion pots of things I just HAD to have (but never got around to planting), and losing 75% of the batch to a foul winter, I learned my lesson. . .now, a master list accumulates during the current season, only after a definite location for that plant/plants has been determined; then, after much thought and/or second guessing, only plants from the remaining list can be ordered. Yes, I know, that sounds frightfully disciplined for one of us "wild and carefree" gardeners, but the payoff is SO worth it when Springs rolls around and I once again have to deal with reality. . . When will they finally introduce a Plant-Aholic's Anonymous. . .or, is that what all these confessions on GW are all about? Carl

Like someone else posted earlier, Almost Eden plants is awesome!! Their plants are very big and healthy and priced great, I've never been disappointed from them. I once ordered from Glasshouse Works but their shipping price has gone up a lot (they wanted to charge me $39 for $15 worth of plants), also same with Accents for Home Garden...I won't pay more for shipping then they charge for the plants lol. That's about all I can think of for houseplants, I order more from succulent nurseries then anything else, so that's about all I know....just check out online reviews about the place before ordering cause some online nurseries are very shady, I've read some horror stories!!

Z Man, A greenhouse can turn the clock back and cause spring time to come months earlier, primarily by the use of heat to break dormancy. You want to push back spring, not prolong fall by keeping your figs in a warm fall greenhouse. Progressively shortened day lengths after June 21st. actually prolong fig ripening causing dry, flavorless, tough skinned figs as the days get shorter and shorter through fall. For best quality figs you want the figs to ripen quickly, beginning in the heat of July, August through September, not into October and certainly not into November. Figs, depending on the variety, take 90-120 days to ripen from the time tiny figlets start to show. Early ripening fig tree varieties are crucial. It takes new spring growth, starting from totally dormant buds, no sooner than 40 days of new extending growth for the first figlets to begin forming at leaf axils when you pinch off the growing tips right above where the 5th. to 6th. leaf has formed on a stem. This hastens earlier and more uniformly concurrent figlet formation and their timely ripening. The oldest leaves start growing figlets first, and progressively up the stem as the leaves mature. The figs ripen up the stem in the order that they were formed corresponding to leaf age. In a greenhouse you want your trees to start breaking dormancy in February to no later than March. Greenhouse growing is no cakewalk. Humidity as in greenhouses, is a developing figs mortal enemy...fungus=rot=no figs. Figs love dry heat, lots of heat, and as much sun as you can give them. I would strongly suggest you grow you figs in both manners, greenhouse container and in ground as Bob Duncan does. I think Bob's method is the easiest and possibly best. Fig growing in temperate climates is challenging. Desert and Mediterranean climates are the most ideal for figs. Moses