wow, Lowes & Home Depot here are about 1/3 to 1/4 the price of the nurseries. For instance, little mini roses will be $12.99 @ Tagawas, Home Depot has them for $6.98. Nicks will have the smaller bareroot roses in packages for $14.99/ea, Walmart/Home Depot/ Lowes has the same thing for $4/$4.99/ea. Trees @ Tagawas start at $99.99 for 1/2" caliper fruit trees, Home Depot has 1-1.5" caliper fruit trees for $19.99. Super bad thing is that there was a better selection for the first round of roses at Home Depot than at Tagawa's and better selection almost all year at Nicks!
There's a ton of stuff I'll get at the nurseries, but if I can get it at Home Depot, I will first. It's super sad to say, but they have a better warranty (some nurseries won't offer any kind of warranty, others give a 'conditional' warranty, others give blanket warranties on *some* things, but not others, etc etc etc), better prices, and almost just as knowledgeable people that at least speak English! I have to wait forever to get help at Nick's because they have very few people who speak English and forget about getting help at Paulino's, they don't have the staff (and the staff they *do* have don't speak English either) (not to mention they're over 30 miles 1 way for me here in Denver traffic). Tagawa's has wonderful people, but they're sooooo expensive. I love going to Tagawa's, and plan on going to the annual "Night of Wines & Roses" where they'll have a live string orchestra, wine & cheese sampling, and that's when the roses finally become available to shop. They'll probably be 25% off like always, but their base price is $39.99 this year (they've gone up from $32.99 4 years ago to $39.99 this year.. they held onto $36.99 for 2 years before going up). And it's always a rush... you're not allowed to buy or even put any roses into your cart until 4pm, so my husband calls it the "Running of the Roses" watching all the little old ladies (myself included!) rush to get the best one, especially of certain roses that they'll only have like 5 of.
