Which do you prefer?

[PlantSwap]

When you need soil, a tool or a plant, where do you prefer to shop?

[txbeyer]

There's no option for "all of the above"

[PlantSwap]

I'll see if I can amend the poll...

[PlantSwap]

There! That should cover it.

[Gram18]

Even though I prefer the local lil nursery, I`ve been known to frequent them all if I want something bad enough!!

[Vicki in West MI]

Yep, I can go to all and not have a problem spending money at each. LOL!

[PlantSwap]

Looks like I'm the only one that prefers the large garden center type store. I feel like a kid in a Toys'R'Us when I go to them.

[Sunny_1]

Hi, I also perfer the large, garden center type of store and the bigger the better! Unfortunately none exists locally ....I have to drive thru the woods and over the river to Cincy...

[txbeyer]

I have found some real gems in "hole in the wall" nurseries so wherever there are plants, I will be there scouting. You never know where you'll find something special. To have a preconception as to what kind of plant place is best is limiting the potential to find some really good plants. As a plant collector, I sell plants on the side not as a business, but to share and help support my hobby and website. Individual plant yard sales are also another great place to buy special plants from collectors, who always have surplus plants to sell and share. Plant swaps also are fun and allow you to try new plants without spending a fortune at the nurseries.

[joclyn]

as long as they sell plants and the associated miscellany needed to care for them, i'm there!!

you also missed museums as an option - i've bought quite a few plants from the gift shops of a few museums around here - and not the museums associated with plants/gardens either!

like a kid with cash in a candy store? most definitely!! i start drooling when i pull into the parking lot of the big box places - even when i'm going there to get something non-plant related. and i ALWAYS have to go by the plants...just in case

[jdkline]

I've been to them all. The only problem with the big nurseries is that I could spend all day and a whole lot of money there. I"ve also found that the mom and pop places are more informal and I've gotten alot of good advice from them. It just depends on what I need as to where I go I guess. I"m not picky, as long as they sell plants they are alright with me LOL

[ok_nurse]

My husband and I love Home Depot. Whether we have the time to shop together (home improvement (both), tools (him), and plants (me) or if we split up for lack of time, we always jump at each other's invitation to go. Of course, there is a lack of variety and no water (pond)plants at all so smaller nurseries and specialty shops are a must. Also, when it comes to disease or pests- who would ever help you at a HD? I like it when HD has a scrawny plant that is mismarked or they don't know what it is and I can get it cheap and nurture it into a beautiful specimen. That's always a charge!!!

[dirtyfingernails]

I prefer local nurseries that raise their own plants because they are will be acclaimed to the area. I also order online for specialty plants. I do my gardening tool shopping at the large nursery chains. Big box stores for ammendments.
Bill

[snowmm]

I like the cheap stuff and if I have to watch it grow...so much the better.

Last fall I got a white crepe myrtle at Lowe's for $3. They thought it was dead. It was 5' tall at my nose and still growing and it was still green. When I got it home I split it into two plants. I can't wait to see what my $1.50 trees are going to look like. And if only one of them lives...so what.

That's the kind of bargain I like to find. Then when I want a certain plant and I have to pay the full price for it...I don't feel so bad.

[NJCWGRL]

Hi, Yea I'm bad also. I stop at every plant place I see I cant afford much but,it does not cost to look at new things. Two weeks ago my boyfriend & I went to Lowes I was looking at a half dead snowball bush & asked How much? The mgr.said $1.00 but,I hade to take everything on the cart. I thought he was joking.Well I left with 8snowballs & 10easter lilies. That's my kind of deal.
Shannon