The scoop on 'Summerstone Nursery'

I placed an order with Summer Stone Nursery prior to finding this site, but only minutes before. Minutes after placing my order, I emailed them and told them to cancel my order. Although my order, 3 clematis and a trumpeter vine, only totaled $25, I prefer to shop at reputable places. They obviously fail to read or regard correspondences because a few days later I received an email stating my order had shipped. I called them for a tracking number. I was informed that "tracking numbers do not exist for general mail shipments". This order shipped on a Thursday from Tenessee to Colorado - normally 4 days for USPS, adding another day for Sunday. Surprised that a functioning mail order plant business would ship so slow, I inquired about this. I was told that the plants are dormant and packaged "really well" for the trip. When the tube arrived, it was very hot, but all plants seem dormant. Only the trumpeter vine had any sort if liquid material on the roots. The clematis were in plastic baggies. The trumpeter vine looks dead but the clematis' roots feel like moisture exits in them. The planting directions are horrible - very generic. I placed them in pots and will see if any grow. In the past the plants I purchased mail order arrived in pots and shipped very quickly, minimizing the stress to the plants. I could accept "bare root" with faster shipping. Even if these plants sprout, to who knows what type of vines, I will not order from this comapny again. I should've paid a bit more to receive a lot more in return.

My order arrived in just 6 days! I expected the plants to be dormant since that is the ideal way to plant in the spring. On two items they sent more than I ordered - an extra wineberry and instead of 1 dewberry they sent me 4! The blueberry plants, while small, have wonderful root systems.
I am already busy placing another order.

I ordered Sparkle and Surecrop strawberry plants from Summerstone nursery....
I just set them out today...They are the best looking strawberry plants I have ever seen...They are ALIVE and have big, healthy root systems (which was a surprise to me, after receiving some strawberry plants earlier from another nursery that were dried out and brown with a scrawny root system...I wound up losing over half of them)
If I lose any of these magnificent plants, it will be my fault....
If you want good, healthy strawberry plants, I recommend Summerstone nursery....

We expect what we see in the catalog and would buy at a nursery but you will receive dormant (their fancy word for dead) dried twigs and mushy bulbs.

Don't do business here.

Just spend the money to get your plants alive and ready to thrive rather than dried out and freezer burned.

I am a big man with a quick temper and would happily pound my feelings of dissatisfaction into these peoples asses were I not a thousand miles away. Send me a note with my twigs telling me how THEY pay extra to refrigerate these freakin sticks??

I hate loosing a dollar trying to save $3. The local nursery has the same stuff for $12.99 all potted and growing and this place gave me a cold dried stick for $4.99. I am mad.

Good thing I don't live closer to them. I'd bring a whole 12 pack of whop-ass to that party.

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Placed an order on April 12 of this year. Was promised 72 hour delivery. Have not received plants. Get no answer to emails. Don't even try this one.

BEFORE ORDERING FROM THIS COMPANY PLEASE CHECK OUT AUTUMN RIDGE NURSERY REVIEWS. I am sure you will get the picture with all the reviews.