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Time to start planning our gardens...I love to browse the nursery catalogs, and would like to order a few to help me plan our new yard in NC...what are your favorite catalogs/websites for plants, shrubs, trees?
I love wayside and whiteflower farm as well. Also, if you like to grow from seed, select seed is great. They have lots of heirloom seeds. Starting from seed to me is a great way to start gardening months before it is time to set it all out.
Before you order anything, check the company in Garden Watchdog at Dave's Garden. http://davesgarden.com/products/gwd/
These are ratings by customers of how the company's plants and service were.
Sort of a Consumer Reports for gardeners. I've found the recommendations and negatives to be in line with my own experience.
It's also helped me find good companies that have plants for less than some of the fancy catalogue places and prevented me from making some expensive mistakes.
One catalogue I like -- although I've never ordered from it -- is this one: http://www.kitchengardenseeds.com/
Lots of heirloom seeds, attractive and interesting writeups and recipes.
I really like Wayside, and Kitchengardenseeds.com, I really enjoy growing the heirloom veggies. I grow all my own herbs, and actually really like my local Home Depot for those, its just less time consuming for me to grow the herbs from plants, not seeds.
Is there any equivalent catalog to Whiteflower Farm that is geared towards the southern garden? I hope to be moving south this year, and I'd like to see more choices of zone 8+.
Is there any equivalent catalog to Whiteflower Farm that is geared towards the southern garden? I hope to be moving south this year, and I'd like to see more choices of zone 8+.
Well, there's a number of catalogs from companies located in the south, such as Wayside (Parks), but it's going to be hard to find one that's the equivalent of White Flower; that one is sort of unique. There's all sorts of reference books geared towards the south however; as I mentioned earlier, the books from Southern Living are particular good. The magazine is pretty good too overall.
Haven't seen the old stand-by, Burpee mentioned. I believe they provide lots of information on regional gardening and have a catalogue.
Also I got some mailings from the National Garden Association, and they have regional newsletters geared specifically to zones/regions.
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