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Lara Farms Nursery??

17 years ago

Anyone familiar with this Florida nursery that can give me some feedback? Plants? Customer Service? Anyone mailorder from them? Packing? Thanks

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eldys

17 years ago

Lara Farms is only about a 10 minute drive from my house, so I've been there a few times (it's just down the street from Pine Island Nursery, actually). Pablo Lara is a very nice fellow, and quite knowledgeable about his plants; he and his son Julian have developed superior varieties of a number of different fruit species, including mamey sapote, carambola and caimito (star apple). They have an excellent selection of trees at very competitive prices, and Pablo is always willing to answer any plant questions customers might have (although I always deal with him in Spanish - I know Julian speaks English, but Pablo may not). Personally, I think that Pine Island has their stock in better condition - although it's never a serious infestation, I have noticed a few scale on some of the Lara plants I've purchased, whereas my Pine Island plants have always been pest free. That having been said, Lara Farms does frequently have plants that Pine Island always seems to be sold out of (caimito, soursop, etc), and the trees are quite healthy despite the occasional scale. I couldn't tell you anything about their mail order practices, since I didn't even realize that they did mail order. I hope this helps!

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racor_2006
17 years ago
Jay,

I also wondered about them being able to ship but I have not found their email address. They seem to have a nice selection from the pictures I have seen from Ian McGuire.
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ohiojay
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University of Fl extension listing shows that they are supposed to carry the golden nugget jackfruit and ships. Thought I'd check them jout since PineIsland won't have theirs ready until June. Never hurts to find another nursery anyway... especially if it turns out to be a good one. Only has phone number...no email or website.

Eldys, if you have any free time and can check this out for me, I'd appreciate it. Would like to know what this particular plant is looking like and if they do indeed ship. Again, unless someone has mailordered from them before, it's a risk. For all I know they could just throw the plant in a box!! Thanks! J
ily68
9 years ago
Lara Farms is a wonderful nursery. I go there to buy the mamey fruits, among others. Their mameys are really really good tasting. I have bought some mamey trees from them to give as gifts. I had a mamey tree from somewhere else that died in my yard. I need to go to Lara to buy one, theirs are very good. I'm looking at Pace. You can see small Pace trees with fruit on them already.
C Crisp
2 years ago
Lara Farms is now shipping fruit trees in 1 and 3 gallon sizes with very reasonable shipping prices. They have an awesome selection of Mango tree varieties also. https://larafarmsmiami.com/
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