My friend Jill was not so sure about Park Seeds, but they were the only source that I could find where 'Seascape' wasn't already sold out. I ordered once from them years ago, but it was for seed starting supplies, not plants. Although I'm not sure what bare roots should actually look like, I could tell that in comparison they were much more robust than what I got in those box tubes at Tractor Supply and Lowes. My previous experience with bare root wasn't good - a wholesale purchase from ADR where some of the Mid Atlantic group gets our fall bulbs year after year. Not a single one of them did anything at all, and ADR refunded the money. I think it was an experiment that they were trying out that year and discontinued, or discontinued from that particular supplier. I've always bought my perennials "in the green", so growing from bare roots, or even seeds for that matter, is something new for me.
