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Re: Your favorite South Florida Nursery
« Reply #25 on: October 09, 2021, 10:22:43 AM »
Orange Sherbet.

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Re: Your favorite South Florida Nursery
« Reply #26 on: October 11, 2021, 03:13:36 PM »
Everglades Farm in Homestead...
Their website says not opent to the public.

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Re: Your favorite South Florida Nursery
« Reply #27 on: October 12, 2021, 07:27:29 PM »
Chris at Truly Tropical in Delray Beach and Alex at Tropical Acres in West Palm.  I also second the recommendation for Julian at Lara Farms. All 1st class nurseries.

My neighbor in the same suburban development --  I never asked him where he got this idea about getting a Dwarf Hawaiian mango tree. But last March he asked me where he could buy Dwarf Hawaiian. By some cosmic synchronicity he was talking to someone who knew. I sent him to Chris at Truly Tropical where he got his Hawaiian and a Carrie too. So now he has these two plus a much older tree that seems like Keitt. It is late season for sure.

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Re: Your favorite South Florida Nursery
« Reply #28 on: October 13, 2021, 02:58:54 PM »
Thank you for listing TreesNMore as your favorite fruit tree nursery.
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Re: Your favorite South Florida Nursery
« Reply #29 on: October 14, 2021, 05:37:11 PM »
I don't have an extensive shopping comparison among them all, but will give a shout out to ANaturalFarm in Howie-In-the-Hills, since this is a Florida thread. I have gotten a few things there, which are not stocked here in N.C. nurseries.

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Re: Your favorite South Florida Nursery
« Reply #30 on: October 15, 2021, 05:47:25 AM »
For Miami area I would definitely checkout Lara Farms for Camito, Mameys and much more

I live in Palm Beach County and have bought tons of trees from Lara Farms. Julian is the best person to deal with. Its funny because I live super close to Excalibur and they constantly have diseased plants and rip everyone off with their pricing.

Chris at Truly Tropical comes in a close 2nd for me.

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Re: Your favorite South Florida Nursery
« Reply #31 on: October 15, 2021, 05:49:10 AM »
Is it true that Excalibur isn't what it used to be?

If you want diseased plants and super crazy priced everything they are good for that. I live 3 blocks from them and avoid like the plague.

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Re: Your favorite South Florida Nursery
« Reply #32 on: October 15, 2021, 06:05:34 AM »
This may have been updated but was the Zill policy in 2020:

QUALIFICATIONS FOR PURCHASING PLANTS WHOLESALE:
Starting January 2020
Regulations & Policy

ACCEPTABLE DOCUMENTS:
•   MUST be a registered landscaping company 
•   Have a CURRENT Florida Annual Resale Certificate for Sales Tax
•   Groves MUST produce Agricultural Classification from county w/ a minimum of 2 acres or more

NOT ACCEPTABLE:
•   Business Card
•   General Nursery Stock Inspection Certificate w/ residential address.
•   Any other business license not related to agriculture.


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Re: Your favorite South Florida Nursery
« Reply #33 on: October 15, 2021, 10:29:26 AM »
Is it true that Excalibur isn't what it used to be?

If you want diseased plants and super crazy priced everything they are good for that. I live 3 blocks from them and avoid like the plague.
That's sad.  Thanks for the update.  It looks like making the trip up to TreesNMore is worth it.
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Re: Your favorite South Florida Nursery
« Reply #34 on: October 31, 2021, 05:51:15 PM »
Is it true that Excalibur isn't what it used to be?

If you want diseased plants and super crazy priced everything they are good for that. I live 3 blocks from them and avoid like the plague.

I knew it. I knew I couldn't be the only one who had disease problems with that nursery. That including their bad service is why I quit dealing with them.
« Last Edit: November 01, 2021, 08:00:14 AM by CarolinaZone »

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Re: Your favorite South Florida Nursery
« Reply #35 on: November 04, 2021, 07:28:06 PM »

For Mangos Alex at Tropical Acres in West Palm
General purpose nurseries, Pine Island, Als' fruit trees, Lara Farms, Richard Lyon's in the Redlands
Dustin at D's in Cutler Bay is expensive but has top notch stock are rare stuff. Plants are in most excellent condition, the total opposite of Excalibur.
TREES N' MORE near Palm City was a pleasant surprise. Nice selection of healthy trees at very reasonable prices.
Spyke's Grove in Davie sometimes is worth a look.
Those are about my main sources.

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Re: Your favorite South Florida Nursery
« Reply #36 on: November 04, 2021, 09:24:38 PM »
Thanks for the mentions everyone. We appreciate the love and trying to crank out as many trees as possible right now.

Lots of great nurseries talked about. Julian Lara is a friend and does great work producing rare tropicals.

Some new ones out in the Loxahatchee area have emerged in the last couple years that will make some noise too.

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Re: Your favorite South Florida Nursery
« Reply #37 on: January 07, 2022, 03:55:06 AM »
It seems everyone is pretty dissatisfied with Excalibur these days, but I wanted to report that you can still find decent avocado, sapodilla, and soursop trees there in 3-gal. size.
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Re: Your favorite South Florida Nursery
« Reply #38 on: January 08, 2022, 12:51:36 PM »
Define decent ;). I'm just asking because I bought from them for 15 years and I thought that the issues I had were me. I'm not hoping to ruin these people's business at all. I finally figured out that I had to spray the hell out of everything I bought from them for scale and fungus and definitely change the soil. Nothing I have bought from A Natural farm has had those problems. Nothing from Pokey's has had those problems. None of the stuff I got from Florida Nursery Mart had those problems. None of the stuff that I brought back from Cali or Phoenix have had those problems. The list could go on. I want to support them but they have to tighten up. They have to tighten up. They used have everything and now not so much. It's like Pine Island Nursery. Years ago, if it was on their website,  they had it. Now it's very hit or miss.  Pro-tip if you are vendor and you see this. Customers hate having their time wasted. If it ain't in stock don't have it on your site or have it listed as "not in stock". Just Fruits and Exotics does a great job of that. I will definitely buy from them again.

BTW I love this FORUM!!!!!!

Lara Farms! I will be back. I need more caimitos and a red cherimoya.

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Re: Your favorite South Florida Nursery
« Reply #39 on: January 08, 2022, 02:10:19 PM »
Define decent ;)
So I bought three trees recently, and they all look healthy, as did their row mates.  I never had disease or pest issues with anything I bought from them back several years ago.  I'm sorry you did, and it's good you're letting us know.

Moving on, kudos to Truly Tropical for having the best selection of mango trees at the present time!
https://www.facebook.com/TrulyTropical/
« Last Edit: January 10, 2022, 10:06:12 AM by johnb51 »
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