I've ordered from John's and had a great experience! If you want more opinions stop by Dave's garden watchdog. You can look up the company and see what other consumers who have had good or bad experiences say about them. Good luck! mouse

I'm always sorry to hear about bad mailorder experiences. I hope everyone was successful in getting their money back or at least getting a replacement that grew. But I'm not ready to give up on Roots & Rhizomes. As long as I get what I pay for I'm happy. By this I mean I'm willing to nurse a smaller cheaper plant along for a year or two if it means I can buy more varieties than I would have otherwise been able to afford. And in my opinion R&R has more of the plant varieties I want (I'm thinking of their siberian iris selections in particular... these are newer harder to find varieties that haven't made it over to Bluestone yet). ps. I also ordered those phlox from Jungs..... needless to say I was calling for replacements.

I wish I would have found this site earlier. The Wayside Gardens web site is awsome and they have some plants that I can't find at my local nursery or big box stores, however they are a bit pricey. I placed an order (April 2006), received it timely, excellent packaging, There after is where the problem starts! Two of the three plants arrived with the bottom half (and I do mean the whole bottom half) of the plants were covered with some type of leaf blight. The leaves were totally covered in brown spots with dark circles. The tops of the plants were a washed out green covered in some kind of brown fuzz. I called them immediately, and was told it was just some type of fungus plants get due to stress when they are shipped. That all I would have to do is buy some fungicide spray and they will be okay after a week or two. I disagreed with them as the damage was so extensive. They said they try to run very tight quality control, these must have slipped by and they would ship out replacements immediately. In the meantime I ordered some additional bulbs and a couple of more plants using a 15% off coupon they sent. The website said they gave free upgrade shipping, however when I entered the code for the 15% off coupon, the site then added back the additional charge for upgrading the shipping which just happened to cancel out the 15% off. The site would not let me delete or cancel the upgrade . I called again and was promised by the customer rep that he would remove the additional charge and submit the order for processing. The next day I received the replacement plants for the first order. Guess what...... They were in the exact same condition as the plants they were sent to replace. I called again. A different customer gave me the explanation I got the first time and said they could give me an in store credit. I responded that that wouldn't work, but I had another order they could credit. She pulled the order up to apply the credit and surprise, surprise...the first rep did NOT credit the account for the extra shipping charges. I was upset about it all evening and called the next day to cancel the order and get my money back. The third rep once again explained that the horticulturist (???) said the problem was due to wet conditions in the warehouse and shouldn't affect the plants other than they didn't look pretty, I should just spray them. I insisted on cancelling the order, he then said he would try but since it was already into processing he couldn't guarantee the cancellation!! Save your money...... buy somewhere that doesn't play games with their customers.

There used to be a hybrid tomato called Missouri Surprise, but it was better known by its official name, MoCross Surprise. The breeder was University of Missouri, Columbia; and the parentage was Mozark x Sioux. It was an early, red "semi-determinate" or "semi-indeterminant," F1 hybrid, early, prolific, uniform ripening, resistant to radial cracking with heavier foliage than Sioux and resistant to fusarium wilt. MoCross Surprise, aka Missouri Surprise, no longer is available because Mozark went out of production which also killed the availability of Avalanche hybrid (Mozark x Glamour). Both Sioux and Glamour still are readily available and one could produce both MoCross Surprise (I have) and Avalanche (I have not). I have a small amount of viable Mozark seeds and see someone ask about both Avalanche and Missouri Surprise every year here at GW. But everytime I offered Mozark seeds or the F1 Mozark x Sioux that I still have, no one responded or followed up. So, I just figure it was idle interest. Oh well.