I have ordered from him many times, though not in a long time. Plants are always in excellent condition and relatively large. He also hasa pretty good repetoire of jungle cactus and Epiphyllums which are hard to find some other places. But that is all there is good I can say... (which is enough for most people). On the down side, a LOT (and from my experience, MOST) of the plants are misidentified (or have completely fabricated names). The species spellings are so bad on his old web site (which I see has finally had an upgrade) that even if they species might have been correctly identified, they were so badly mispelled, I sure couldn't tell. VERY unprofessional.. NOT the place anyone who cares what they are actually getting would want to order from. And expect delays! First time ordered I got my plants promptly (relatively)- in 6 weeks. Last time I ordered in summer (July) and got my plants in early November!!! That was after the previous year of ordering in September and getting them at the end of November when it was too cold for some of them arleady. But the more I complained, the longer it took to get my plants, so best to probably prepare for the ridiculous wait and be patient. Compare this to ARidlands.com which has close to the perfect web site: photos of the plants you are getting, and a shipping turn around of about 4 days. And these people know their plants! So I order almost exclusively from them now.

I attempted to purchase seven fig trees from Ty Ty Nursery on January 3. I paid in advence with a debit card. They failed to ship and they refused to refund my money. On May 23, I finally received a full refund from Ty Ty (aka "Arrons" aka "The Nursery at Ty Ty") with numerous other DBA's. For those of you unfortunate enough to do business with these people........here's what I did. After 8 or 9 attempts to work with them on my own, I contacted the Georgia Better Business Bureau. This was a complete waste of time. The Nursery owner, Patrick Malcolm, told the BBB that he sent me a refund and the BBB closed out my case. Only problem was........he never sent the check. I next contacted the Georgia Dpt of Consumer Affairs. Nelson Mitchell handled my case and, within four weeks, I received my refund. Funny thing though. The check was dated April 28, 2008, but the envelope it was contained in was postmarked 19 May, 2008. I would highly recommend that anyone having difficulty with this "nursery" (and I use the term loosely) contact the Georgia Office of Consumer Affairs like I did. I have included their address and phone number below: Governor's Office of Consumer Affairs 2 Martin Luther King Jr., Drive SE, Suite 356 Atlanta, Georgia 30334-4600 Phone: 404-651-8600

Here's a couple of entries from the Facebook list for Cstars, they have been compiled from different sources so some comments are repeated: Gold Mine Recommended. Largest individual flowers. Large multicolor golden yellow flower with orange center. Petals have radiating orange pink lines, round petals, pointed tip. When hot the flowers open up and look more of a solid red, then fade to a yellow rainbow but grainy looking. Marmalade looks like 'Angelica'. looks like a mix between J-105 and Penang Peach. Leaves are very different and round.. has a Thai look. Possible PP seedling. dark star running down the center of the bloom. Incredibly nice large salmon/orange/pink round flower. Overlapping petals. Absolutely beautiful and smells like peach. Salmon orange & dark pink, overlapping & the texture is thick & waxy. Also appears to be a compact grower. It almost looks like Penang Peach or a relative as it shares the same leaves with the hook. Color is really nice & its scent is cocoa butter coconuts peachy cream. Petals are waxy and thick. Scent has notes of singapore along with fruit & vanilla

We haven't fell off the face of the earth. My mother always said she had to get in the mood to sew & I couldn't understand that because I would sew all time if I didn't have other obligations. Well, life has come to the point where both of us have lost interest in sewing along with losing one of the little girls we sewed for. It's a long story so bear with me. First, my niece who was born when I was 11 was Dxed with cancer the last of Aug of 09. She died Mar 5, 2010. We don't know for sure where her cancer started as she was stage 4 when we found out & it was all over her body. We suspect ovarian. She was too sick to operate on. Places they were able to get a biopsy showed that those places were not her primary cancer. If you have ovaries, get the BRAC test. Teresa & her husband had adopted a special needs grand daughter who would have been 10 Aug of 2010. Teresa's worst worry about dying was her fear that Skyler wouldn't be taken care of properly. We got up to get her ready for school on March 2, 3 days before Teresa died, & Skyler was in her bed dead. The state held her body awhile..until they determined no foul play was involved. It was simply that God came & got her in the middle of the night. Teresa was conscious until she went to sleep about 1 1/2 hours before she just quit breathing so she knew Skyler had died. We were able to do a double funeral...another first for us. I put my life on hold when Teresa was first Dxed & rescheduled so many Dr appts of my own after she died. When appts came around this year 2 a week, I was confused at first until it registered about what had happened last year making up so many at once. I don't guess many people have ever seen a dead child at the scene of the death. We were as prepared for Teresa as you can prepare, but that child's death just really threw us for a curve. Officials came out of the cracks & crevices interviewing us. Their house is in one county but in the city limits of a town in an ajoining county. Who was responsible for her????...well whom ever was there. We have always been a close family. If she needed anything, ever who became aware of it, did whatever needed doing. Under the circumstances, the questions they asked & the answers we gave made us sound so inadequate. She was by no means negelected. Her biological mom's husband gave me fits about "rocking her & spoiling her". If I was in a rocker or on the sofa, she liked being close & I know she was confused about her grand mother being gone as she was in & out of the hospital a lot. She knew she could pile up on me where ever I was & she did. She didn't talk much but you could communicate with her. Yes or no was down pat. I knew her favorite foods & I took them to her. When grand mom was eating, I'd question her about being able to eat so & so. Before Teresa could answer, Skyler would start clapping & laughing when I mentioned a favorite of her's. Teresa would tease her saying "She is asking ME what I want not what YOU want". Of course she thought that was funny & giggled & clapped even more. Skyler was very tall & part of her physical problems was vision & muscles in both upper & lower torso. She could put some food away but she was a very thin child. I made most of her bottoms especially school uniform things. Also, her dresses. Her heighth had her in a 12 but an 8-10 fit her body. Besides food, she loved clothes. She thought we should have fittings on every visit. I had fabric all over this house in some mode of production. I found several packs of elastic in the laundry room last week where I'd washed & dried it ready to use. I have things 3/4s made. I have things cut out & I have pre-washed fabric on the cutting table. She loved Elmo. Susan had fabric & purchased items she'd found on sale that she had bought for birthdays & Christmases coming up. Those of us who thought we'd be left behind with her had many questions on our brain. She started her periods 4 months past her 9th birthday & she was still in diapers. Talk about a mess!!! Doctors had suggested depo vera shots or a partial hysterectomy. Those were questions Teresa was still searching her heart for proper answers for. We all had had her on our minds every waking hour for 6 months with thoughts crowding our brains about what would we should or would do & when we found her dead, it was like our brains just shut down. Susan had people ask her how it felt & she would tell them that words hadn't been invented to describe our feelings. We both appreciate your concern & in hind sight, we should have come on here & let you know what was going on & asked for your prayers. One thing that confused people about me & Teresa was our bond. It was more than an aunt & niece. Teresa's mother was from my dad's first marraige & her mom died when she was 15 months old. She was a senior in high school when I was a 1st grader. When Teresa came along, I didn't really know if I felt like she was my child or the little sister I never had. Of course I was sewing for her from day one. She was probably about 2 1/2 maybe 3 1/2 & such a smart kid...always was. She'd heard the word scraps as in something made for her was from scraps of something of mine or mother's. As I was sewing, mother spoiled me by allowing me to toss trimings in the floor. I still do & it drives one of my cousins crazy. Teresa asked what that was in the floor & I said "scraps". Next thing I knew, she was picking all of it up & putting each fabric in separate piles. Such little things & little piles. I asked her why she was doing that & she said she wanted to save those "scraps" so I could make her someting from them. We had to have a lesson in what scraps you saved. So many sweet memories. As she talked about her pending death...& boy did she talk, she assured us that she was not going anywhere. She said, "As long as you have a breath in your body, I'll live in your heart." Teresa was almost 13 when her sister & Susan were born. She took care of them like I took care of her as a child. We're having problems coping but her sister truely is. Susan kept telling me that Melanie was just not accepting the fact that Teresa was not going to survive & didn't until about 2 weeks before. When you pray, remember us. Our hearts still ache. Makes you not want to out live anybody you love.