@EllenLindbla,
You replied to a 2012 thread. So you might not get many replies. I will try to bump it up a bit. I have ordered plants from G.H. Wild and they said the plants were stored in a refrigerated condition. Now I don't know if that was actually in a large cooler without light or how if any moisture was supplied. I do know there was very little foliage but a good root system on the plants, and they grew like weeds in the spring and I think nearly all of them bloomed that season. You might send them an email and ask how they store them in a cooler?