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Hi All Brandon, Love the list, you should post that every time this question comes up. We have ordered from many of these companies and I agree with your list. Personally Nourse has some of the best plants you can get. We ordered 150 Polana Rasp and they were great, we picked about 100pt off of them the first year. The asparagus roots (all 1000 of them) were huge! easily 12-18" long and I think every one came up. We also got several varieties of rasp from Hartmann's and they were very good also. The only bad plants from Hartmann's were the rhubarb, they were pale and died, they replaced them and the same thing was sent. I would definitely order from them again, just not rhubarb. Jake

Another heath, resembles Gaultheria but can't think which one it would be be. Maybe even Vaccinium.

i have reds, blacks, and crosses for the raspberries. as john said, blacks do well here, though you'd never guess from the lack of liturature on them. the purples have done really well, too. the reds need good winter drainage, especially. the one grower in the area i know of sprays fungicide in the winter on his, and he's on sand. mine are in clay and are doing ok, and i've never sprayed with anything. they have gone downhill somewhat through the yrs. and they are indeed very invasive. one nice thing about the blacks is they aren't- they will tip root, but they don't spread via running roots. you just can't let the tips touch the ground. as a cool bonus, the winter stems are electric purple. bear in mind, there are 2 types of reds- everbearing and summer. you get 1 crop out of summers & 2 out of everbearers. first crop is early june, 2nd is late fall til frost. summers fruit in later june. i have heritage(ever), dortmund(summer), jewel or bristol(black- can't remember, all blacks are summer), and royalty(purple- which behaves rather like a red in habit, but no second crop). i've tried the yellows, but they seem wimpy around here. they are very disease prone. i also have some red rasp/blackberry crosses that seem to be doing pretty well. nice thing about raspberries is they are putting out good fruit in yr 2, full crop yr 3. you do need decent sun- i'd say 5 hrs minimum. mine get barely enough. the one thing that will fruit in partial sun and does really, really well here is wineberry- an oriental berry that is similar to a red rasp. gorgeous, and we love the flavor. tart, but still sweet. it tip roots, and has 1 crop. if you come to the area, i'd be happy to give you a start- ed landscaping in va sells it, too. blueberries do fruit in the shade, but aren't as sweet(except the wild low types). the more sun you can give them, the happier they are and the better they fruit. they will do ok with 4-5 hrs of afternoon sun if that's all you have- just don't expect the berries to be as big, plentiful or sweet as ones grown in sun(i got that lesson frist hand this yr). the rabbiteyes will get big- up to 10', so plan accordingly. i beleive the new southern highbush are supposed to top out at 5-6', and they don't need as low a ph as northerns. i wouldn't plant northern highbush- they don't appreciate the high humidity & heat. there are some nw natives i'm messing with that like shade, but they are still too small to say if they do well here. evergreen huckleberry, red huckle, & some others. i also transplanted some low growing varieties from a plant save in the woods that seem to be doing well. they haven't fruited yet, but hopefully will. blues will take 4or 5 yrs to really start cranking out fruit big time. good luck! and enjoy your harvests.