Avid gardeners are familiar with this plight: you spend the cold months stuck indoors carefully planning a new garden, only to find that come springtime local garden centers don’t carry the plants you picked, and the whole design falls apart. Most people don’t consider shopping online for plants, as most of us like to carefully look over that selection and choose the healthiest looking bushiest plants for our gardens. You can shop with confidence at these online retailers, knowing the plants will be quality and your selection will be available come planting time.
www.whiteflowerfarm.com
White Flower Farm calls themselves the Premier American Source for plants, shrubs, bulbs and gardening supplies delivered to your home, and they got that right. Located in the Litchfield Hills of Connecticut, the garden experts at White Flower Farm don’t offer just any plants for sale, they carefully handpick varieties of plants for proven hardiness, ease of growing, and the reliable flower performance gardeners demand. Most if not all plants are tested for performance in their 5 acre display garden which is open to the public free of charge during warmer months. White Flower Farm takes a number of steps to ensure that the plants you select will be successful in your garden. All plants are clearly labeled with recommended climate zones, and ship at the appropriate time for planting in your area, taking the guesswork out of gardening. White Flower Farm also makes recommendations for companion planting based on successful pairings from their farm, helping you to make good design choices and achieve the garden of your dreams. The sheer selection of beautiful plants is much greater than anything you will find in a typical nursery, with over 15 varieties of Heuchera, 20 types of Hosta, and too many daylilies to count. Brighten up the dull winter months with a few hours spent browsing White Flower Farm’s website and know that healthy attractive plants guaranteed for performance will show up on your steps right in time for planting.
www.greatgardenplants.com
Great Garden Plants’ tag line is “Where Superior Garden Plants Cost Less”, and this seems to be an accurate description. Great Garden plants offers a huge variety of plants at what they call “wholesale prices”, and well the pricing is far from wholesale, there is a definite cost savings to be had shopping with Great Garden Plants. One good example of such savings is on Heuchera (coral bells). Both White Flower Farm and Great Garden Plants source their Heuchera from industry leader Terra Nova Nurseries, but equivalent plants cost $4 a piece at Great Garden Plants than they do at White Flower Farm. Even greater savings can be had when purchasing in quantities (this is where wholesale pricing comes into play – if you have a need for 96 of these heuchera, they would be only $8.95 a piece, so what you would really be getting is wholesale LOTS for wholesale pricing). On most plants however, quantity discount begin at only 3 of a particular plant, which is much more manageable than 96. Gardeners with less of an eye for design, or those who simply don’t have the time but still want a beautiful garden will appreciate Great Garden Plants’ collections, which are groupings of plants combined by experienced gardeners for there complementary styles. Purchasing these collections can also offer significant cost savings, a prime example is the Pretty in Pink Coneflower collection, which lists for $25.75 below the cost of the individual plants.
