Thank you for the recs!

Bloom River Gardens purchased Greer (http://www.bloomriver.com/); they completed an order I had with Greer; plants (rhodies) where very good.

Not familiar with that one - and they say they've been at it 34 years! (I've heard their name, that's about it). Sounds like they are moving the Greer plantings to their place.

http://www.bloomriver.com/home/br2/listitems_24/bloom_river_garden.html

Yes, Greer links to Bloom River. Road trip?!

Don't forget Gossler Farms. There was actually a little guide book to Eugene area nurseries published some years ago, I used to have it.

If you visit the web site : http://plantlust.com/ they list the nurseries that are selling each plant and if it is available for sale at their location and/or web/phone/mail

They list a selection of 56 nurseries.

Many thanks, fellow gardeners.

Some people have good luck with Whitney Gardens. Since you are in the PNW you might as well visit in person.
Bloom River seems to have purchased the assets, plant stock and customer list of Greer but they certainly didn't "buy" Greer; the land is being profitably redeveloped. (huge lot near the center of Eugene, OR) I hope they are being careful about how they handle this because of Greer's known frequency of problems with SOD in the past few years. Now that they are closing I will say I'd vowed never to order from Greer after a certain point, after TWO requests from Maryland to send 20 leaves from every plant purchased from them in that calendar year, it was simply too worrisome. Fulfilling this request probably killed a couple small rhododendrons because they just couldn't cope with that canopy loss. And of course, if an eastern state does think you've contaminated your garden with SOD, they are going to take a flamethrower to it and you're going to lose your life's work, so that definitely isn't worth the risk.

And of course, if an eastern state does think you've contaminated your
garden with SOD, they are going to take a flamethrower to it

A world authority on water molds told me some years ago the cat was long since out of the bag regarding Phytophthora ramorum.

"A world authority on water molds told me some years ago the cat was long since out of the bag regarding Phytophthora ramorum."
Well, strange as it may seem world authorities are surprisingly often simply wrong on things...which is why we don't have a cure for cancer, true artificial intelligence, control of the weather, world peace, or whatnot.
But I don't even know the context of what you mean here. I suppose you mean it is already somewhere in the East? But this is easily falsifiable and in more ways than one. You would likely have to assume by now if it were that it simply didn't affect our oaks (or other plants) in the same way. But if that were the case, why would they be spending so much time, effort and money to prevent it from getting here? Doing about 30 PCR tests on samples I sent them, over 2 years, isn't free and I certainly wasn't paying for it (except through my taxes I guess). And it would be far too early to safely assume that anyhow...it could mutate in a few years to do damage after all.

And...of course, none of mine tested positive, through a likely channel of transmission...LOL...I have read that a handful of trace forward plants were discovered in the east. One can only assume those receiving gardens were (and still are) further tested to make sure it didn't spread farther.

What I actually worry about is some hiker dirtying up his/or her clothing out west, packing them before cleaning...and then as is often the case if you want to save the drain on your washing machine from disaster, pre-rinsing them outdoors somewhere in the east. Washing out contaminated leaf litter and soil.