Sue: Rather than looking for one place, I took a different tack and looked for specific roses wherever I went. Example: Most Rugosas will do well in Z5, as will most any own-root roses. How can you tell if you don't know? Look for a graft at the base of the plant -- own roots won't have a graft "ball" and will probably do well. Secondly, know that there Are things you can do to help not-so-hardy roses stay hardy in your area. Look for microclimates in your yard that could handle an iffy plant or two. Climbers, particularly. Plant deep -- no sign of the graft should appear above ground. And finally, "local" has become such a misnomer of late. There are very few retail nurseries that actually grow or graft their own roses, or anything else for that matter. Chances are that they got their roses from the very places one can order through on-line. Don't sacrifice quality for keeping the dollars in town. There's plenty of ways to do that, and roses aren't one of them. That said, there's nothing wrong with hitting the $5 table at Ocean State Job Lot for some Hybrid Teas that you know won't make it :-) If you feel like traveling at all, in East Windsor, CT on Route 140 just off Route 91, Revay's still does a lot of their own roses and sells only things that will be hardy to Zone 5. If you're down this way, shoot me an email and I'll be glad to join you for a visit! Good Luck!!! Martie

I found a succulent website harddy.com. They are the succulent marketplace. It seems they only ship within the United States. Hope that helps! They have some pretty cool stuff. Worth taking a look at.

My favorite place is long gone. A backyard greenhouse operation, sort of. Doing enough business to hire help. Frankly, most places offer a boring assortment of annuals and vegetables and seem to be focusing on expensive Proven Winners. My current favorite is another backyard gardener who even has single plants at a reasonable price (70 cents for tomato seedlings). She sends out a plant list so you have to pre-order. She lives on a back road and her neighbors don't like the extra traffic. Pick up is on two specified weekends. Then she sells leftovers at the farmers markets. She's also a garden writer for the local newspaper her in NH. If you were near Hanover NH I would highly recommend Edgewater Farm in Plainfield. Found it while on a trip to King Arthur Flour in Norwich VT. I attended a workshop last year by a tomato grower in Dunbarton NH. He grows about 150 varieties for area restaurants but sells maybe two dozen varieties to the public. Website: Rusty's Tomatoes. Puts a sign up by the road when he has plants to sell. I'm lucky to be able to get the basics here in town but I've gone hunting for Lemon Gem marigolds after discovering them at the long gone place. Tiny edible flowers, lemon scented lacey foliage. Delightful. Sometimes I've been able to get them at Spring Ledge Farm in New London NH but I also found them at Edgewater. I don't know why they aren't a popular annual.

No, the small trays they had are still larger than the ones in your link. They looked more like 2x2 per cell but definitely not the typical 6 cell. I use those in your link for starting mine but then transplant to 4" pots. Yes, they had lots of hot peppers out! Mostly hot peppers actually. I don't grow hot peppers so can't help you with types they had (other than habanero haha!) but probably 5 or 6 varieties from memory. All the vendors had hot peppers, most had other varieties too. The California Wonder I only saw from the one vendor. If you are familiar with the layout, the seedling vendors all seem to be on the northern leg of the "L" shape market layout- along 17th street. This particular vendor was on the furthest east stand (nearest Park ave) on the side furthest from 17th street. Hope that makes sense. Shouldn't be a problem in any event, lots of them selling today and I imagine more on Friday.