For me Land of the Giants, Hallson, Naylor, hopefully you will get some more suggestions.

Sherry

Sebright's, Naylor, Land of the Giants, In the Country Garden and Gifts, Greenhill Farms.

Currently I buy most of my hosta at hosta sales put on by hosta societies and I buy at the National and Regional Conventions which do have sales open to the public. Aside from that I have ordered from In the Country Garden and Gifts and New Hampshire Hostas recently with good results. I like them because in addition to nice hosta they have a few other plants I can order.

i visit hallson .. top notch ..

keep in mind.. if you mail order from the cold north ... they wont be filling orders until much later than warmer clime biz ...

ken

http://www.perennialnursery.com/

I've had lovely plants from Hallson's, Northern Grown Perennials hostalink.com , and Made In The Shade hostaguy.com .

Naylor Creek, almost exclusively!! But that's because Gary and Jack are almost neighbors and I have been patronizing them for more than 25 years!! If they don't sell it, I probably don't want it :-)

My only complaint is that their nursery is no longer open to onsite visits or purchases so I have to wait for one of our local plant sales that they frequent. I am not doing mail order for a place only a 20-30 minute drive away!

I made my first purchase from Green Mountain this year. Give me a year and I’ll let you know what I think :)

I “liked” all the ones mentioned as I've happily purchased from them. Chris at Hallson Gardens is indefatigably customer service oriented, but most of the above mentioned are. I found a few hard to get ones at Homestead Perennials this year.

keep in mind.. when you mail order ... you are buying a root mass for the future ...

its a cost/benefit ratio between roots and price ....

a large root mass .. means you will have a larger plant a year or two down the line ..

there are plenty of bargain plants out there ... but then if you save the upfront money ... then you will be the ones spending an extra year or two ... growing the root mass ... and then a couple years after that.. you will have the plant you dream of ...

hosta take 3 to 5 to 7 years to mature ... mostly depending on size ... so spending a bit upfront can really save some time ...

ken

I haven't purchased from Plant Delights but I've heard good comments about them..

Sebright, Wade and Gatton (we visit there once a year), In the Country Garden, N Hampshire Hostas, Uniquely Hostas, Emerald Forest Nursery (very close to us--he sells large plants) are some of the ones from whom we have purchased hostas. We have also bought from other hosta club sales.

I am a frequent H/Forum "lurker" but could not resist passing on several of my favorite Hosta suppliers plus the info that Northern Grown Perennials is currently offering free shipping. This will be the third year I have purchased plants from there. My experience has been to receive healthy, nice size plants, that adjust/grow well. Rod responds quickly to email questions. I have also purchased from Hallson's, Naylor Creek, and Green Mt. Their plants have always been nice, healthy, and grown well.

We got a lot of ours from Gilbert H Wilde.

Boy, I'd be careful of Gilbert Wild and sons. It's the worst experience I've ever had in buying plants. I bought an end of the season deal and got a bunch of liners. It was 2013, so they may have changed but I'll never buy anything from them again. I spent about $125.00 on their sale plants and immediately wished I'd spent my money elsewhere. I could only find one the photos, but the plants were terrible and tiny.

I've bought hosta from Land of the Giants, Hallsons and Green Mountain and have been happy with my purchases.

bkay

Gilbert Wild plant

Oh that's pitiful, Bkay. Thanks for the heads-up. I've had disappointments with New Hampshire Hostas, but not quite THAT bad!

Wow-we've been buying from them since we got married in 2001 and *never* had an issue! My dad gets a lot of stuff from there too. When I got married, my parents acreage was a lot more involved than it is now, (they took out a lot of beds when I moved out and wasn't there to help) but between our place and their's..I can't even venture to guess the number of plants we've gotten from GHW. That's too bad. Was it just that one time? How did the Komodo fare after you planted him?

I never thought to take pictures of things we've gotten from different nurseries..dangit, that's a good idea. I just finally started a binder the end of last season and clipped pictures from the catalogs and taped them onto the invoices so we could see what we'd gotten. Just one more thing to add to the Why Didn't We Think To Do That In The Beginning list. (along w/keeping track of where we planted things, when we did it, where we moved things, and when we did it, and pictures yearly) Tho, to be fair, when we first started, we just thought we'd do the basic little beds around the perimeter of the house and be done...hahahahahahaha yeaaaaaah that was dumb thinking.