I am not excited about the Stark Brother's acquistion of Miller Nursery. I have before me a $119.28 from Starks I ordered in 2011. Not a single tree or plant I ordered is alive today. I ordered Harglow Apricot Standard. Earliblue Plum, Stanley Prune Plum Stark Beach Plum. Heritage Red Raspberry, And Himbo top Primocane Red Raspberry. And over the years I have ordered many trees ( I am guessing between 25 and 40 trees) from Starks. the only one that is living. Yes one is a Pecan that I planted in the Mid 70's. All the English Walnuts I ordered maybe 8 plants over the years not one survived. Wait a minute... I may have one peach that has survived and maybe one sweet cherry. I am now a week shy of 64 years oild. I was a fool to place my last order with Starks. Oh my God they took me!! And my life is at the short end. Three apple trees I order from Miller's are living. Now that I've read the above blogage. I fear I may have gotten varietiies other that I ordered. But what does Starks do. put something in the plants that make them die in a year and a half? I know I ordered three Hazel nut bushes two years ago from Miller's Not one made it. They replaced it. And I took photos of the roots before I planted them If anyone would like to see. And let me look maybe one is alive. Yes..... The Fingerlakes S.H. Filbert sent up some shoots. The Barcelona came was a five foot cane with a few scraggly roots and another variety that had better roots died again. I did make sure to cut the long cane off. But to no avail. The two English Walnuts I ordered from Miller's are alive I believe. I am apprehensive though as to the quailty lineage. I have an aquantance who planted a whole orchard of English walnuts. Adding phosphate rock and lime etc. to the soil to find thirty years later trees that are small and deformed and produce notthing. It seems that what they are selling is hope. And for many the hope is.... Couertillar

Jose thanks for the tip. Looked up the place's web site and it's located close to a friend of mine that I visit once in awhile. I called him and told him about the place and to check it out. Will visit and have a meal there. My friend told me that that name is very common in Staten Island. Lou

figtreeundrgrnd, I live in Morris County and I will probably have a couple of extras of some types. I only grew one to four plants of any type. I've already promised some to family and neighbors but usually when it comes down to it, you never know if they will take them. (And if they do, they will probably kill them). I hope to go through it over the weekend. LMK if you are interested and I will include you in my sorting. I should warn you that I have a lot of aphids in my yard right now and though my tomatoes aren't infested, I've found a couple here and there that I've hand picked off, so if you are aphid free (is there such a thing?), you might want to consider that. They aren't all over the place. They prefer my viburnums and roses I think.

Oh the minute I saw "Monsanto" I knew where this was going. I have been a Monsanto boycotter since I read about Aspertame, the poison they have spread for 2 decades now.Then I read about their Roundup resistant raspseed (Canola) and the farmer they sued...What scoundrels. They are in the same society downgraders like Wal Mart. Yes, I have my tin foil hat on. Ok now for real world.I am not heirloom snob. I do grow some Hybrids only for insurance...in case my Heirs fail. But to only get 2 tomatoes on a plant. PUHLEASE! Did they measure the nitrogen in each plant's soil? Just a thought and I did not go to college and have no "scientific" degree. Pathetic pandering for Monsanto.