satellitehead - I can not speak for the the perennials or ferns, I barely looked. We were there early and it was busy. In a short time the azaleas were getting bought out. I barely looked at them either as it wasn't what I was buying - just noted for a future plan. I can say that the shrubs I purchased are in great shape, but none have leaves, they are just breaking dormancy which is exactly how I want them. Bought a bunch of sticks with buds I did. I can say that I spent $111 on 5 shrubs at a large nursery last Monday - two anise, 2 Leucothoe and a red buckeye, buckeye was $30 for a 1 gallon (I wanted three of them and settled for one). The same nursery had the oakleaf hydrangea pee wee 1 gal for $24, GNP had them for $9.50. At GPC I got the same size Leucothoe, anise, another 5' buckeye and a slew of other stuff for a lot less and in equal condition or better because I don't feel that they are hothouse babies. I don't want my viburnums leafed out quite yet, particularly with the ice balls we are getting pelted with today. I also received a mail order of viburnums this week which was $275 for seven plants (with shipping). Two of them were 3 gallons, the rest smaller. They are in great shape, but at GPC they were $8-10 each in harder to find species. Everything I buy requires shipping costs out the ears - usually 25%, plants are small, so for me the GPC is outstanding. I would love to order from Nearly Natives in GA, but it's too much on shipping with sales tax, or a 4 hour drive each way. GPC is over an hour away. My yard has zero in it and I need (erm...want maybe...nah, need) a lot of foundation plants. I guarantee the leucothoe and anise at GPC were commercially grown, they did not fit in.

Ok, this weekend's sales are over, but next week is another round, one in Athens and another in Atlanta: http://botgarden.uga.edu/eventdetails.php?id=13 http://treesatlanta.org/news/15th-annual-tree-sale-jamboree-in-a-new-location/

Thanks for the heads up! I will probably head up there after I go to the Marth Washington Garden Club plant sale in Yardley - gotta maximize the gas since I am driving a truck so I can HAUL MORE PLANTS! LOLOLOLOL! Alexa

If it's going to be a hassle getting there, I'd consider whether the organization follows the practices of groups which give first crack at the good stuff to members. I gave up on one local sale, after finding all of the better/rarer items listed in the pre-sale catalog gone by the time I got there. The next year I had paid to become a member, and virtually all the good stuff was gone anyway, even though I got to the sale early (it turned out that the organization's board got to pick plants even before the members). Fooled twice, no more.