Looking for mail-order nursery for trees and shrubs in Canada
prairiegardener_canada
4 years ago
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Where to order Burchell nursery varieties via mail order?
Comments (8)I've also tried contacting Burchell and received no reply. I was trying to find a local nursery that sells their trees. I'm only 20 miles away so you'd think somebody here would carry them. I don't think they really care about the retail market. When you sell more than a million almond trees a year (Duarte sold 2 million in 2013, Dave Wilson expected to sell 5 million in 2014) home growers are small potatoes. Those numbers are from an article in 2013. I don't how the drought is affecting sales, but growers are pulling out everything and replanting in almonds. All the way down to Bakersfield. There are much, much fewer fig orchards around Fresno, all gone to almonds. But I digress... I will occasionally see a Burchell tree in a local nursery, but very seldom. I was going to say that I doubt that any mail order nursery carries Burchell trees but then I remembered that I (surprisingly) received a Shipley's Blenheim from Arboreum that had a Burchell tag on it. gary...See MoreMail order vendors for trees & shrubs, whose the best?
Comments (7)FWIW ... getting your trees/shrubs at local nurseries is the [b]ideal[/b] choice. That way ... you see exactly what you're getting (i.e. health, size, number of branches, buds, etc.) ... and you get to pick the plants which work best for you. OTOH ... when you go mail order, ... you get what they send you ... which is, typically, not as nice as you could have found and picked out yourself. But ... there may be reasons that you want to go mail-order. One of these might be ... selection. Local nursersies, typically, don't carry anything but the most common selection of trees/shrubs ... cause this is what your typical buyer will purchase. If you want something which is even the least bit different from the norm ... your only option may be mail-order. That said ... mail-order vendors which I have been pleased with are listed below ... www.songsparrow.com www.forestfarm.com www.musserforests.com Songsparrow is located in the mid-west, so shipping isn't as high, ... plants are very nice, ... and their selection has been adequate for me most of the time. Forestfarm is located in the west, ... so their shipping costs are higher (to the eastern states) ... but their plants are nice ... and their selection is huge. Musser Forests is particularly good for getting large quantities of smaller trees and shrubs ... at lower prices....See MoreLoss of a excellent Canadian mail order nursery
Comments (20)Not box stores driving nurseries out of business here but the seemingly unstoppable rise of that US import - the Garden Centre. True, everything is under one roof and you can buy an (overpriced ) drink while browsing...but their inventory is limited to maybe 2 types of certain perennials, a handful of common and popular favourites such as the hardy geraniums and absolutely nothing which has slipped off the top 40 list. Meanwhile, our wonderful nurseries, run by real expert plant growers, offering an unsurpassed range at half the cost (overheads) are vanishing because people apparently want to go on a coach trip - buy ornaments and jewellery and other tat and spend a morning in a coffee shop whilst being served by a clueless school-leaver on minimum wage. Even so, I can choose from a dozen small nurseries less than 25miles away which are often specialised and always a source of valuable advice. I think most of these will have vanished in my lifetime - although I still have faith in the egalitarian nature of gardening and the deep passions plants arouse in British gardeners. I have been a reluctant convert to mail order but on the plus side, I have become a lot more capable of propagating and producing my own stock. Seeing a much loved nursery close it's doors seems like a sad defeat for the free gardening spirit and a victory for capital driven, market solutions which do not sit well on this anarchist's shoulders....See MoreMail order for Shrubs
Comments (7)Good grief! I looked at the Garden Watchdog listing for Plantmegreen and most of the good comments (changed to neutral) were made by the nursery employees or owners! Boy, is that ever a red flag! born, why not look around for mail order nurseries in your state? And then check with the Watchdog about any that you might find interesting....See More
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