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[Rating] Negative [Author] 123456789 (5 reviews) [Content] 
On Mar 15, 2012, 123456789 Winston, OR wrote: Posted on April 21, 2007, updated March 15, 2012 thier website is my first stop If I want to research a new genus. huge inventory, their catalog would take months to read and must be four inches thick. thier tubes have been shoddy for me; but a one gallon redbud of theirs has the shaping and pruning of a true master. On March 15th, 2012, 123456789 changed the rating from neutral to negative and added the following: forest farm's web site has often been my first stop to look at a plant picture, and the selection makes for a telephone book catalog with witty snippets through out. That said.................................................................................................The stock quality is lack luster at best. i've order multiple times and visited thier nursery in williams. it really is a 'forest farm " with dense shade cast on ther stock all day everyday making for leggy or weak stuff wacked up like bonsai. often the material is root bound like an anaconda was nesting in the pot. I say drive out to see them in williams and pick out your choice, better yet buy some seeds and grow your own its how they do it and is much more rewarding. On Mar 15, 2012, Forestfarm responded with: "On Mar 18, 2012 8:45 PM, Forestfarm responded with: Wow! Its hard to know what flipped the switch to cause Mike to go from neutral to a negative rating. He visited Forestfarm in January of 2011 (over a year ago), when he purchased a few plants, but we havent had any contact with him since then. We work hard to keep our customers happy (its important to us), so we sent Mike a D-Mail and then called him to ask what we had done wrong--what we could do to make things right. He didnt really have an answer, but said he would amend his posting. That hasnt been done, so we feel that we must defend ourselves with a rebuttal. Mikes comment about Forestfarm growing all of our plants in dense shade all day everyday is totally false. At least 75% of the nursery receives mostly sun each day. Those plants that do better in shade or partial shade are given these conditions. We certainly dont see in our plants what hes referring to as spindly or leggy growth, plants wacked up like bonsai, or anaconda root systems. We really wonder if he was thinking of Forestfarm when he wrote this, or some other nursery! Some of the plants Mike purchased at Forestfarm were named cultivars, so obviously werent grown from seed. We do grow many kinds of plants from seed, and would welcome readers to try to do so also. But it may not be as easy as he makes it sound. Since we never know what demand for a plant will be, its always a guess as to how many to grow. Sometimes we dont have enough of a plant; sometimes we have too many, in which case some may get overly large. When that happens, we donate the overgrown plants to our local Master Gardener group for educational purposes, or they are used in a plant sale to raise money for the groups activities. As to the plant quality being lack luster at best, please read the other postings on the Garden Watchdog and make your own judgment. Thank you, Ray & Peg & crew "
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