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In article <BuF69J.7G9@unx.sas.com> sasjtr@pangloss.unx.sas.com (St. Timothy) writes:
>In article <15149@borg.cs.unc.edu>, (Lori Todd) writes:
>|> I want to buy landscape plants, groundcover, etc for
>|> outside my house.  Most of the greenhouses around chapel hill
>|> have a small selection and are no bargain.
>
>I've always found Bob & Deb at Growin' Green to be very helpful.
>They're what I would call a medium-size greenhouse, but if they
>don't have what you need they're very willing to get it for you.
>Prices seem reasonable to me (and I've shopped at about a dozen
>of the local greenhouses).

Some prices there are OK, but some are waay up there in the orbit.  While
you can find some good deals after persistent browsing, be sure to do
some comparison shopping beforehand.  

The owner's attitude was the singular factor that turned me off.  A
paraphrased conversation about some Exbury azalea hybrid.

Me: Hmm, I like this azalea here, but $35 seems to be somewhat excessive.
    I've seen the same kind for about $20 elsewhere.  What would you
    really sell it for?

Bob: You're welcome to shop elsewhere.  If I sold at the prices others
     do, I'd be out of business ...
     [and he continued in this style for a while - kk]

Me: OK, goodbye. (thinking, "yeah, at these rates I guess if you find one
    sucker who pays what you want then you can afford loosing five
    customers.  Sounds like a good business practice.  Well, good luck,
    but you ain't having any with me").

Also, they had some plants pitifully mislabeled.  How would anybody manage
to put a 'royal fern' label on what appears to be cinnamon fern, is utterly
puzzling (royal ferns have *very* charactristic foliage).

>Highly recommended.

NOT

For good deals, the Southern States coop is hard to beat (but the
selection is smallish) - they are on Greensboro St. next to
Harris-Teeter.  A friend of mine swears by the main nursery of the
Potted Plant (somewhere on Weaver Dairy Rd).   Dickinson's on Franklin
is OK.  Largest selection in the Triangle is likely at the Taylor's
Nursery in Raleigh - they are HUGE (but open weekdays 9-5 only).  My
favorite is Niche Gardens (1111 Dawson St in Chapel Hill, tel.
967-0078).  They are average size, but have some fairly rare and
interesting plants (like the japanese crepe myrtle - much nicer than
the popular stuff one sees everywhere. Some really neat japanese CM can
be seen in NCSU arboretum).  They operate mostly in mail order mode,
but have open house Thu-Sun for the next 6 weeks or so.  Plants are
mostly smallish, so it is not for an instant landscape, but are healthy
and usually easy to propagate/multiply if one has patience to wait...

KK
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