Well, it's been hard selling off the rose society mini orders the past couple years so this shouldn't have been a surprise, I guess. Exhibitors want the latest and greatest and the general public doesn't understand why they can buy a grocery store mini for the same or less in pretty paper than the 3.5 or 1 gal containers the rose society offers. Nor'East/Greenheart Farms has been great to work with.... and, Frank, I've been a fan of your roses for several years. Keep up the good work.

Frank

hopfully other mail order nurseries will step in and sell more varities of your minis. I am out of full sun loving roses space, otherwise I would be takeing advantage of the sale to grab up more of them.

Hey guys, I'M NOT FRANK nor do I have anything to do with Nor'East other than being a customer..... I just "cut & pasted" this post from that "other" rose forum. The retail mail order source for minis is getting mighty slim. Larry

OOPS

I just assumed that when I read the post. Thanks again for posting it. And you are right, the places to order minis is getting very small. No one has the varity of minis as Nor'East. They will be missed. I just hope some of the other places that carry minis will step up and carry a larger varity.

Well, I guess the sale will have to start early since the word got out so fast.

Larry...thanks muchly for posting this information. Thanks too, for your good response to my inquiry regarding Grace Seward. Muchly appreciated.

Very disappointed about the closing. Nor'East Roses has been a fantastic resource for plants, rose advice, and recommendations. The staff is very knowledgeable and helpful. I considered the quality, size, packaging, and prices of their roses superior to John's and those of other mail order retailers. With it's recent acquisitions, it was comforting to know Nor'East could provide gardeners such a wide selection of miniatures for years to come. Now the luxury of broad choice and excellent service combined under one roof will disappear. Nor'East had to make hard business decisions to survive, but from a selfish standpoint, I'm sad.

I just received my order of Nor'East Roses along with the notice of them closing the retail sales. I went on-line last night and order a few more roses. I just couldn't pass up the $3.75 price. Many selections were already sold out. I hope someone will continue to sell the mini's either online or catalog. Their plants were just wonderful

Well, I do not know if it is over money. They certainly did not want mine. I tried to order over 100 minis for over 4 days of playing phone and email tag. I finally, after trying to get my order in since Thursday, was told to just put in my order, only to go on the website to see we are not taking orders. I call again ....only to be told oh we have the order that I sent in an email 3 minutes before ... I see you are trying to order a lot of Ralph Moore roses ... (well yes I am,) That is a premium collection! I do not think we will be able to help you I am sorry.... Excuse me? Why would you list roses for sale and not want to sell them to me? Very disappointed in the lack of communication. As someone who wants to start building a large collection of minis, I will pass on whatever they do in the future if they can not take care of the people who tried to order before they closed the site to check inventory.

Why were you trying to submit an order by email??? They don't accept orders that way. The web site is set up to be their primary interface for ordering, so you should have used that right off the bat and saved yourself some grief.

I tried to log onto their site today and I am getting a message saying site cannot be located. I have an order coming soon, or at least I hope so. Any one else having issues or is it just my computer today?

Tammy

cherrykist, That would be server issues on the hosting site. It'll get fixed ASAP.

Aaannd...
it's back up. But you still can't place an order.

trospero , I sent them the order by email just because I had been talking to them via email because my order was over 60 roses and they were supposed to do something with the shipping cost. I got an email after waiting and playing tag since Thursday (phone & email) it said to put in my order . I tried to and the site was down so i shot them the email because she knew I wanted 114 minis. I was told oh I see you want a lot of Ralph Moore roses ...that is a Premium Collection. I am sorry i can not help you. I expressed a letter to them this morning to hopefully sort it all out. In it I included all email etc.

Tammy and Andrew, please be patient with us at Nor'East. We got caught a little off guard when we announced that we were going to stop selling retail and focus on our wholesale business. We saw more orders hit us then we had seen all year to date. There are only 1 1/2 people who input all of the orders and we literally had everyone on the farm who could use a computer inputting orders. We stopped taking orders on the website so we could take care of existing orders. We still have plenty of plants of almost all of the varieties. We just needed to get caught up in the office and take some time to reorganize the greenhouses, clean up the plants and double check our numbers. As soon as we accomplish all of this we will start taking orders again. Thanks so much for everyone's support and business, Bill De Vor

Thank You for taking the time to let everyone know the situation Mr. De Vor . Also, thank you for allowing rose societies to still be able to obtain roses for sales.
Regards,
Andrew

I just received my order yesterday. I would like to say how much I appreciate the careful and secure packaging. Considering the major amount of orders they still took the time and care to make sure we get a quality product. Each packed rose was like a special present. I am impressed and delighted! Not one broken anything (surprising considering the FedEx man came up to my door SPINNING the box!! Yes, I told him...he said, "it doesn't say "fragile"." grrrrr) and roses in excellent condition!
Nor'East, thank you everyone involved at getting these top notch roses to us!
Allison

I got the email informing me of Noreast's decision to stop internet sales, as well as the 1/2 price sale. I was busy with so many things (planning my daughter's wedding, for one thing) that so I didn't take the time to get an order together. I will miss them, the roses I got last year are just beautiful, that's why I wanted to get more, and at 1/2 price would have been fantastic! I had hoped to buy several, to give as favors for her bridal shower. But the site won't accept orders now.........Oh well, thats what I get for procrastinating.

hpny2

You need to keep watching their website. They have stated a few posts up that as soon as they are caught up on what has already been orderd they will start to accept orders again.

I'm worried that they are not going to get caught up with shipping orders before the 30th deadline... Do you think they might extend the deadline?