Lilies: USA Lily Growers? The Lily Garden vs. B&D, 1 by critterologist

critterologist wrote:
Has anybody had recent experience with The Lily Garden? I'm wanting 'Scheherizade' and some of Judith Freeman's other hybrids, and I thought it would be neat to order them from her place. I know B&D Lilies has a fabulous reputation, and on the Watchdog it looks like The Lily Garden *had* a great rep also, until this year, when they got 3 bad reviews (and no positive ones) for poor communication and uneven quality.

I'm planning to split this order with a couple other people, so I really don't want to hit a stumbling block with it. I'm thinking I might wait until next year when B&D hopefully has 'Scheherizade' back in stock... but before I put it off for yet another year, I figured I'd check in here and see if anybody knew the scoop re. The Lily Garden.

Of course, it doesn't help that The Lily Garden prefers to do business via snail mail and phone... and this time of year, they are mostly unavailable by phone, I'm sure! I'm so used to even the smallest companies having website shopping carts and prompt responses to email... reading the "how to order" and "contact us" parts of their website was rather a shock, LOL.

I'm also putting together a group buy for our local Mid-Atlantic DGers for spring... just got the Ednie lily list, and ADR's list comes out Dec. 1. We've gotten very nice bulbs from ADR in the past, and those wholesale prices are pretty great. But frozen bulbs from holland vs fresh bulbs from the US... well, I'm willing to pay a premium price to at least try some from TLG or B&D!