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Spring Hill Nursery
Spring Hill Nursery
A mail-order nursery selling since 1849, with tempting catalog prices and a guarantee doing heavy lifting. What arrives is the budget mail-order reality: small starter plants, often bare-root and dormant, that need a season or two of faith before they resemble the catalog photo. Fine value if you know that going in; a heartbreak if you don't.
Mail-Order Bare-Root Plants: Read This Before You Order
Bare-root is the best bargain in mail-order gardening and the source of most of its heartbreak, usually in the same box. The format is sound; the expectations are broken. Learn what dormant stock is, plant it the week it arrives, and it beats potted plants on price and often on establishment — skip the homework and you've mailed yourself a disappointment.