Hi All -- I have read questions about Harris Nursery and so wanted to let everyone know that I just had my first ordering experience and it was a very positive one. They had a plant I have been unable to find elsewhere and wanted very much. First plus! I corresponded with Ruth at Harris and she was very nice about answering my questions and getting back to me. I ordered two trees and they arrived within 5 days of my order being placed -- which was over the weekend. This would be from FLA to CT. The trees arrived in great condition and they are great! The shipping is a little more than some of the other sources, as I don't think you get a break on quantity unless you buy four. I have also had great luck with Briteleaf and I've ordered from them on a couple of occasions (Toni, thank you for that recommendation!)and will be ordering three from Anna this week. Stan MacKenzie and MacKenzie Farms are wonderful, too. I was also very pleased with World Wide Plants when I got my lemonquat and Eustis limequat some years ago. Trans-Pacific Nursery in Oregon is another one I have been very pleased with and they do ship small items, which I like, since I now have over 60 varities wintered primarily in one small sunroom. Since I live in CT, I can just take a ride to Logees -- I have been pleased with their plants as well, and like the fact that they offer small specimens. For you e-bayer's, I have been very pleased with the plants I got from Secret Garden, as well. They offer auctions, so you can get a gallon-size citrus at a fairly low price, and will give you a break on shipping if you order multiple items. Evergreen Gardenworks deals in plants for bonsai culture and I got some small flying dragons from them to try grafting at some point. They ship small, too, and these arrived in good condition and nicely packed. All in all, I have been very fortunate and very pleased with the plants I have ordered. An exception to this was Ty-Ty. My personal experience with that order was not good -- the plants died and they were not at all accomodating. If I recall correctly, they shipped bare root, and the plant was not in good condition when it arrived. I would not recommend bare root shipping for citrus based on this experience.

The new magazine subTropical Gardening covers an area from Sydney through Qld and across to Darwin. The magazine launch was in Nambour and the first edition will be available again at Brisbane's Garden and Flower Show, 23rd to 25th September. For any Sydneysiders reading this, the magazine will be available at Gardening Australia Festival 25th - 28th August. There is a Sydney writer for the magazine. If this is too long to wait, then visit the website. Helen

Hi Ian, I will be sure to buy it. You must have been busy larely. I have been telling my Army friends about your garden and I have a couple saying they will visit. I have a builder coming to my place (Bellbowrie) at 7am on Sat morning for perhaps an hour or two and then I will drive across. I have been invited to lunch at Lota at about 12 noon; so if I can I will come back some time after lunch as well. I have been looking forward to this weekend since last year! Best wishes, Daniel

I am surpplier and buyer I have to say it is sometimes shard to satisfy customers as there are a lot of different ones out there(as you mentioned before), but we try and everytime a customer replies and says how happy she/he is with our plants I am happy too and this keeps me going. And I think it is courtesy to replace damaged plants also if they were damaged through the post. As a buyer I have to say I was dissapointed about a lot of nurseries, thats why I started my own, and especially, to get notified when they have recieved my payment and when I can expect my parcel, but when the plants are arriving in time and are happy I am very pleased. I like granny smith nursery, I think they are in tasmania. and guruna nursery, sydney, which is a very young nursery so they still have some problems with packaging, but the guy is so helpfull and replies to a lot of questions also if they are stupid ones, and he has always time and takes time to satisfy customers. And he has a very nice range of plants. Not to forget about this. Thats the only two nurseries in Australia I deal with (mailorder), the rest I import. Its a pitty I would like to spend my money in australia, and sometimes I prefer the hassle with AQIS instead of the hassle with arrogance and bad manners. Sorry about my english therefore my partner does the customer service. ;)