Star Wars Garden Gnome The Perils Of Postal Service Order

It's difficult to meet this wax myrtle (Morella cerifera) against the mulch right? That's because this tiny postal service gild industrial plant life never leafed out.

Over the years, I've resigned myself to buying a lot of the plants for my garden via postal service order.

It's exactly impossible to detect most of the plants - peculiarly natives - that I desire at the local nurseries.

There's i expert native industrial plant life plant nursery (GroWild) nearby, but they alone offering many (not all) of the shrubs together with trees I desire inwards 15-gallon or larger sizes.

For a seat out of reasons, I prefer to install smaller plants (preferably 1-gallon, 2-gallon or 3-gallon, though I sometimes give-up the ghost upwardly to 5-gallon).

That way I receive got to rely on postal service order.

Don't larn me incorrect - over the years I've industrial plant life a few fantabulous postal service gild suppliers, addition about to a greater extent than that are expert plenty (hit or miss, but alongside expert prices) where I'm willing to accept my chances.

Then sometimes I create upwardly one's heed to endeavor a novel supplier. I'm non going to refer the culprit exactly inwards illustration this was an aberration, but it certain was disappointing when I opened upwardly my gild for 3 1-gallon wax myrtles (Morella cerifera) together with industrial plant life a bunch of brownish sticks.

To live fair, in that location were 3 perennial strawberry begonia plants (Saxifraga stolonifera) inwards the same gild that were inwards much amend condition.

I planted all three, but ii of the wax myrtles never leafed out, thus I've straight off shovel-pruned them together with replaced them alongside woody shrubs - a Burkii juniper from GroWild together with a Needlepoint holly from about other local nursery.

The 3rd i did foliage out together with is struggling, but wax myrtles are thus tough that I'm (fairly) confident it volition eventually last together with hopefully prosper inwards time.

Here's the postal service gild wax myrtle that did foliage out. This i had about dead branches too, together with many of the existing leaves were non inwards expert shape, but it's pushing novel increment together with I retrieve it volition eventually recover together with hopefully larn a overnice shrub inwards a brace of years! (That's called "optimism.") 😉

By comparison, I was able to install a 3-gallon wax myrtle that I industrial plant life downwards at a Huntsville, Alabama plant nursery (Bennett Nurseries) that already has a beautiful presence inwards the garden.

This 3-gallon wax myrtle that I bought in-person at Huntsville's Bennett Nurseries cost nigh 2.5-times equally much equally the postal service gild twigs. (That doesn't include transportation costs on the postal service gild plants, but thus yous receive got to figure fourth dimension together with gasoline to drive 200+ miles roundtrip to Huntsville. Of course, I didn't give-up the ghost to Huntsville just for the wax myrtle. I did see the botanical garden spell I was in that location together with also bought about other plants.)

Do yous purpose postal service gild nurseries? If so, which are about of your favorite suppliers? 

Or are yous lucky plenty to receive got groovy local nurseries either correct inwards your town / tube expanse or inside a curt drive?  

Or produce yous grow your ain plants from seed?