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Old 04-01-2012, 01:46 PM
elfkin477 elfkin477 is offline
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Trustworthy nurseries for buying berry plants online?

The conversation district has had yearly plant sales in early-to-mid March for as long as I've lived here, so that's where I've generally gone to buy plants: you order them in the early spring then go and retrieve your order several weeks later. But it's already April and there's no word of the annual sale, so it seems really unlikely that it's happening this year

There aren't any nurseries in the area that anyone I know would recommend, so it seems like buying online is the best choice.

I want:
  • blueberry bushes that are old enough to produce this year (at least 2-3 years old)
    - particularly of breeds that produce smaller, sour-er berries
  • raspberry bushes that are old enough to produce this year (probably also at least 2-3 years old)
  • good deals on strawberry plants, pumpkin plants, and flowers would be a wonderful bonus, but I can mostly cover these locally

All plants would be shipped to zone 5b.

Is there an online nursery you consider excellent? Lives up to promises about plants being mature at the time they claim? Decent prices including shipping costs? Please tell me!

Thanks
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Old 04-02-2012, 09:34 AM
Zsofia Zsofia is offline
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I'd like to know too, but I'm looking for Southern rabbiteye blueberry bushes. Zone 8ish.
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Old 04-02-2012, 09:57 AM
Mind's Eye, Watering Mind's Eye, Watering is offline
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I got my blueberry plants from Nature Hills Nursery and they do have blackberry and raspberry plants, though I didn't get mine from there.

My blackberry and raspberry plants came from Burpee

All were shipped as bare root, and have mostly done very well.
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Old 04-02-2012, 10:11 AM
Mind's Eye, Watering Mind's Eye, Watering is offline
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I'd like to know too, but I'm looking for Southern rabbiteye blueberry bushes. Zone 8ish.
I'm pretty sure that I've seen those at Nature Hills Nursery before, but I am not seeing them now.
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