Flower Scent Gardens for annuals and perennials. Highly recommended! Small but very nice selection, great service, beautiful plants. Logees Greenhouse for indoor plants, tropicals. ForestFarm for shrubs, vines, trees. I'm a Northeast gardener, though...there are probably lots of places nearer to you :)

Best,
Jen

check out gardino's at rareflora.com. They have lots of good things, and give good value and service.

For hardy and tender trees and shrubs, Nurseries Caroliniana has great stuff, as does Camellia Forest, Roslyn and Fairweather Gardens ($); Gardino's is great for tropicals. For houseplants, my top pics are Glasshouse Works, Logee's, and Kartuz.

There are many other excellent nurseries out there, but these all have great selections and very good service in my experience.

Jim

I think most would agree local nurseries are better: no stressful transit, you get to pick the healthy ones, consistently better blooms and plant stock, and avoid the mislabeled some.
Back to the post: Since Im one of those in zonal denial mail order is very tempting. Of those Ive tried Logees has nice selections and a user-friendly website although one staff was grumpy when I called, another from TN mixed up the order then mailed out plants that "almost" survived except one which has not bloomed after a year (yet a similar plant from San Gab in LA constantly blooms), FF has a great selection and friendly service but when the new J. grandiflorum reminded me of a J. polyanthum the explanation was "the leaves look the same when they are young".
So it's hit or miss, but thats where the fun is.

I'll have to agree with Flower Scent Gardens and throw in Cottage Garden. I have had great success with each of them this year. I also have an inquiry in at Gardino's to see if they have Michelia alba left in stock (I hope they do!). I have chosen to inquire with them because of what I have read here about their plants and service.

I got alot of nice scented buls this year from Terra Ceia farms. EXCELLENT prices and good bulbs. :)