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« on: October 23, 2015, 10:45:52 PM »
I've bought a lot of plants from Logee's for many years and never had any problems with diseased or unhealthy plants, both directly from their store and online purchases. The plants may be small but they have so many rare and exotic varieties that are hard to find anywhere else and because they are small they are relatively inexpensive. You will find many of their plants in botanical gardens and personal garden collections. It is a fascinating collection of plants and well worth taking a trip there to see it if you are in the area. Smaller cuttings and seedlings need more TLC than more mature plants and purchasers should realize this and make sure they give the plants immediate attention when they bring them home or as soon as they are delivered so that problems do not set in from stress from shipping or being in a new location. Unfortunately beginner gardening enthusiasts often do not understand this and blame stress issues on the grower. Logee's is a family business spanning several generations, and they are nice people and very helpful and would not intentionally sell unhealthy plants I believe after doing business with them for so many years. I do not know them personally but found them very honest, helpful, and knowledgeable over the years. Their greenhouses are immaculate and very organized. Most plants are cuttings from their mother plants that are the most amazing specimen plants you will see anywhere. Anyone that has a greenhouse knows how difficult it is to keep your greenhouse totally bug and disease free, but after going to the Logee greenhouses many times and seeing the staff constantly at work planting, caring for, and maintaining the plants and growing areas, I have seen they are probably as bug and disease free as a greenhouse operation can be. They carry a fairly wide variety of citrus plants, but not nearly as many as the specialist citrus growers in the south and west, and many are cuttings from some of their very old specimen plants. You can get interesting varieties such as Valentine pumello, the huge Ponderosa Lemon, calamondine, Key Lime,Meyer Lemon, some mandarin and Satsuma oranges such as Dancy, Owari,and Gold Nugget, the sweet Ujukitsu lemon, Kaffir Limes, Valencia, and several kumquats and their hybrids, to name a few.....such a variety from a Ct. grower! They do have some grafted varieties also. But, if you want larger and more established citrus you should look at some of the growers from true citrus growing areas. But Logee's does have a nice selection for especially northeastern houseplant enthusiasts that might want to try growing a smaller containerized plant far away from the ideal climate of the citrus growing regions. Logee's proves it can be done and offers many videos on you tube to help their northern customers do the same. Once those growers find out that they can actually get citrus fruit and the deliciously fragrant flowers, then they often expand their horizons and start looking for more varieties from the specialty growers from citrus areas as long as the plants are not quarantined. I am always sad to read negative comments about Logee's as they seem to work very hard to give their customers good value for their plants.
Cory