While your article said not to vote for both, I really must. For most plants, I try to purchase locally. I like to be able to see the plants first and make sure they are healthy and disease/bug free. When our local nurseries don't have the cultivars I want, I usually talk with the owners and ask that they order in what I seek. This is easy here because we have only four garden centers and I am long-time friends with three of the four owners. I think ordering in exactly what I want via a local nursery would be a lot more difficult if we lived somewhere else. Sometimes, however, buying locally is impossible. There are times when the plants I want are either so new or so rare in our locale that our local nurseries do not have access through their growers. This is particularly the case for three categories of plants: roses, irises, and clematis. For these plants, I purchase online or directly from growers in other parts of the country. There just are NO growers in our vicinity that offer a good selection of cultivars for any of these plants. Soooo, I'm truly "both"...
