Comments on: A good read http://blog.blithewold.org/how-when-what/a-good-read/ a garden journal about public garden maintenance, seasonal tasks, garden events, stories about gardening, volunteers, flowers, bugs and wildlife Sun, 19 May 2013 12:25:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Priscilla Dunn http://blog.blithewold.org/how-when-what/a-good-read/comment-page-1/#comment-21589 Priscilla Dunn Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:07:23 +0000 http://blog.blithewold.org/?p=7773#comment-21589 I would also like to recommend Evermay Nursery in Maine. They are small but have a nice web site and, naturally, their plants are hardy. This year they were only able to send a price list instead of their usual catalog. They have two young sons who needed extensive medical care this year and so they weren't able to raise as many plants and do the catalog. I plan to order a few things just to help them out. Hope others will too. www.evermaynursery.com <em>Thanks, Priscilla - we'll check them out and wish them well. -kris</em> I would also like to recommend Evermay Nursery in Maine. They are small but have a nice web site and, naturally, their plants are hardy. This year they were only able to send a price list instead of their usual catalog. They have two young sons who needed extensive medical care this year and so they weren’t able to raise as many plants and do the catalog. I plan to order a few things just to help them out. Hope others will too. http://www.evermaynursery.com

Thanks, Priscilla – we’ll check them out and wish them well. -kris

]]> By: Priscilla Dunn http://blog.blithewold.org/how-when-what/a-good-read/comment-page-1/#comment-21538 Priscilla Dunn Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:07:54 +0000 http://blog.blithewold.org/?p=7773#comment-21538 Sadly Arrowhead no longer does a printed catalog since Bob Stewart died. The web site is nice but not for reading in bed. I like High Country Gardens and Siskiyou (although they have cut back). Heronswood was wonderful, but sadly gone. The only really extensive catalog I know of is Forest Farm, but no pictures. Will try to get Chiltern. Thompson and Morgan is fun to read too. Even White Flower Farm, who never spared any expensive, has those annoying lists at the end of sections of plants without descriptions that say "see web site." If I am looking at peonies I want to see pictures and descriptions of every one they have so I can compare. However, I know it is getting more and more expensive to print and mail. <em>Priscilla, I miss Heronswood! I actually came across an old catalog the other day. Could read those like a book because they were so book-like! Full of fascinating info and essays. -kris</em> Sadly Arrowhead no longer does a printed catalog since Bob Stewart died. The web site is nice but not for reading in bed. I like High Country Gardens and Siskiyou (although they have cut back). Heronswood was wonderful, but sadly gone. The only really extensive catalog I know of is Forest Farm, but no pictures. Will try to get Chiltern. Thompson and Morgan is fun to read too. Even White Flower Farm, who never spared any expensive, has those annoying lists at the end of sections of plants without descriptions that say “see web site.” If I am looking at peonies I want to see pictures and descriptions of every one they have so I can compare. However, I know it is getting more and more expensive to print and mail.

Priscilla, I miss Heronswood! I actually came across an old catalog the other day. Could read those like a book because they were so book-like! Full of fascinating info and essays. -kris

]]> By: Blackswampgirl Kim http://blog.blithewold.org/how-when-what/a-good-read/comment-page-1/#comment-21295 Blackswampgirl Kim Wed, 30 Jan 2013 01:41:40 +0000 http://blog.blithewold.org/?p=7773#comment-21295 I need to find the Chiltern catalog--that sounds very amusing! The only one I currently read cover to cover is Plant Delights. He's a little irreverent, so it's not for everyone... but I love the tongue-in-cheek humor and hardiness notes like: "Zones 9b to 6b, at least" and "Zones 7-10, possibly colder" :-) <em>Kim, I love reading Plant Delights too and can't wait for the latest to arrive (I had to request it again since we didn't end up placing an order last year - though the 2012 catalog is much marked up and dog-eared...) -kris</em> I need to find the Chiltern catalog–that sounds very amusing! The only one I currently read cover to cover is Plant Delights. He’s a little irreverent, so it’s not for everyone… but I love the tongue-in-cheek humor and hardiness notes like: “Zones 9b to 6b, at least” and “Zones 7-10, possibly colder” :-)

Kim, I love reading Plant Delights too and can’t wait for the latest to arrive (I had to request it again since we didn’t end up placing an order last year – though the 2012 catalog is much marked up and dog-eared…) -kris

]]> By: Susan in the Pink Hat http://blog.blithewold.org/how-when-what/a-good-read/comment-page-1/#comment-21290 Susan in the Pink Hat Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:29:48 +0000 http://blog.blithewold.org/?p=7773#comment-21290 I love LOVE Chiltern. Haven't ever got their print catalog. I may have to after this. I loved Arrowhead's catalog copy from Bob Stewart for the same reasons. <em>Susan, Thanks for the heads up about Arrowhead Alpines - any catalog listing "rare plants for obsessive gardeners" is worth a thorough read by me! -kris</em> I love LOVE Chiltern. Haven’t ever got their print catalog. I may have to after this. I loved Arrowhead’s catalog copy from Bob Stewart for the same reasons.

Susan, Thanks for the heads up about Arrowhead Alpines – any catalog listing “rare plants for obsessive gardeners” is worth a thorough read by me! -kris

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