Vox Humana wrote:

Springhill gets bad remarks. They had some problems a few years ago and
were associated with some other bad companies under the umbrella of their
parent company. The whole outfit went bankrupt and the employees bought
Springhill. I live near their facility and buy from them without any
complaint. They have a liberal refund policy. The other issue with them is
that their catalog shows full, mature plants. They sort of paint a fantasy
of how wonderful your garden will be with their plants. In reality, they
ship very small plants that will take three or four year to get close to the
size shown in the catalog. Of course, many of the trees and shrubs will
take even longer. People who expect to receive huge plants are often ****ed
when a tiny bare-root plant arrives. Dormant, bare-root plants appear to be
dead to the uninformed and sometimes people think they have been swindled.
The plants from Bluestone are the same size as the ones from Springhill, but
Bluestone is more candid in their representation of the plants they ship.
Springhill is having their huge annual catalog clearance sale starting this
Thursday. Everything that didn't sell in the catalog will be available at
their main facility for $1. I have a yard full of plants from both the
Springhill and Bluestone clearance events (Bluestone had theirs two weeks
ago - all you could fit into a flat for $25.


Well, I want small plants, but I also want to know they will be small.
It is pretty hot here, so I wonder how wise it would be to order any
plants now? It sort-of sounds like I am going to have to wait until
Spring (or maybe try to grow some things myself), so I have quite a
while to gather information. While one can plant in the fall, the
plants would obviously have grown a lot bigger over the summer, and
hence they would be harder for me to plant.

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Jean B.