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Mark Angermeyer asked, "Anybody ordered from Bottoms nursery, located in GA?  
Your experience with them?  How about Hartmann's Plant company?  Experiences? 
 Do they grow their own stock?"  

   I buy from Hartmann's Nursery.  Their specialty is producing tissue 
cultured plants for MANY other nurseries and their retail prices reflect 
that.  For most items, they charge (up to) significantly less than other 
nurseries would charge for the same item.  
   Hartmann's has a practice that I don't understand:  They have a retail 
catalog and a wholesale catalog with mostly different plants in each.  
   Problems with Hartmann's?  I ordered 100 of two varieties of a tissue 
cultured plant.  They only sent me fifty because the all other varieties were 
too tiny for shipment.  I thought the fifty they sent me were too tiny 
because they were too small to plant out in the field.  I had to grow them up 
in my greenhouse and some of those didn't make it - I have twenty some still 
growing going into their second Winter.

Jim Fruth