Re: Florida Hill Nursery?
"Hey buellracing01, why continue the charade? Given that my PayPal payment for the plants I ordered from Florida Hills Nursery went to someone with the email address buellracing01@... it seems pretty clear to me that you are the owner of Florida Hill Nursery. Why pretend that you are ordering plants from your own nursery? You did succeed in generating a few sales, and I am happy with the plants you sent, but why not just come clean and tell us about your business?"
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(Sorry, I haven't figured out how to use the Quote feature yet.)
I was suspicious from the over-the-top praise in buellracing's first post -- literally suspected it was the seller himself, but, with no proof, I couldn't say anything other than what I had already said -- that I had online gardening and trading friends who had had very different experiences.
I can't help but wonder about Cherokee Greg also, since these two have been making similar posts and consistently thanking each other, while receiving thanks from no one else.
Now that he has decided to attack another seller, I can answer specifically from my own experience of buying plants from Donovan at Wellspring. His plants are grown out in those tall, skinny, rectangular pots with a nearly open bottom, which allows for a larger root system while saving the grower in surface space. The plants I bought were small, but had big root systems and thrived in transition. The ones that failed were Colocasia Nancy's Revenge, which I've always had trouble with.
Donovan shipped the plants in their pots, solidly filling the box with no room for shifting. If my order didn't fill the box, he added bonus plants (usually cannas) to fill the box completely. He put stakes in each pot that wedged the pot against the top of the box, so they wouldn't slip if the box was turned upside down.
I found the packing strategy pretty ingenious.
Donovan was honest and would tell me how long he had had the plants, which was helpful to me because, as I wrote, I choose not to buy TCs that have not been in a normal greenhouse (non-laboratory) environment for less than two months. That way, I don't have to deal with acclimatizing the test-tube babies to common garden conditions (and bacteria).
I still strongly prefer to buy from someone who is selling natural offsets, and, when they are regular gardeners -- not commercial growers -- they often sell them -- or even HAVE TO sell them -- at the same prices as the commercial growers, simply because of the competitive environment.
The only cannas I've received from TCs were the gifts from Wellspring. They grew out ok, but, of course took a long time to establish, while, when I buy a fat chunk of a growing canna rhizome from a regular gardener, it always explodes with growth.
I just saw an ad for a white canna yesterday. Yes, they were rare a couple of years ago, but ... things change. They aren't hard to find now.
Y'all make your own decisions, but, for me, the attempt at deception here speaks for itself.
Last edited by SilkKnoll : 03-28-2011 at 08:02 PM.
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