Category: Georgia Vines

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How to Use the Internet to Find Gardening Information

macterrarium by aur2899

If you wish to do gardening, plant or insect and pest research on your own, TheGardenLady wants to suggest a few ways to get the best, most up to date information on line.

The first is to check out what the extension offices have written on your subject of interest. When Googling up your topic, add the word extension at the end of the word/s you type in the search space and you will get a list of papers put out by various Agricultural extensions at different universities. For example, do you have skunks making a nest in your basement window wells? A friend did and contacted me about what she should do. I told her to call small animal control in her town. However, if you want to see what else might be recommended or if skunks don’t interest you but you are interested in rose care, type in Skunk extension or rose care extension and a list of papers from university researchers on the topic of your interest will appear.

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Georgia Vines Nursery is A+ in Customer Relations

Yesterday TheGardenLady posted a comment from Terry, an angry customer, who was frustrated with Georgia Vines, a nursery that has been touted and promoted on TheGardenLady site.  We’re happy to report that the matter has been resolved.  Travis, the son of the owner of Georgia Vines  contacted Terry and discovered what had happened:  Terry had given the wrong address.  Travis shipped her seeds again to the correct address.

Anyways things are back in order, and this gives TheGardenLady more confirmation that her positive recommendation of Georgia Vines was spot on.

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A Frustrated Gardening Customer


Angry flowers by thegareth

TheGardenLady received this comment fromTerry.

Lori I ordered and paid for seeds on the 1st of Oct and have not seen them. I have called your weird cell phone that’s going to “tell” mother,,,,maybe 4 times now….but nope…mother never called or emailed…just took my money….forget the free shipping….Lori this is really wrong.. Go check the cell phone you use for custom service you will find my phone number there! Call me back and tell me you ARE shipping the seeds I ordered and paid for!!!!now 30 days ago! Or next week…I will cry on youtube.

TheGardenLady received this impassioned comment (and she hopes it’s not spam or trolling) and feels that she MUST respond because TheGardenLady recommended the Georgia Vines Nursery.

First TheGardenLady phoned the Georgia Vines Nursery and spoke to Travis, Lori Rubel’s son, who is now working for the company. When we were speaking, I emailed your comment to Travis who received it while we were speaking. I do not know the people who own Georgia Vines but speaking to first Lori and now her son, Travis, makes me feel like these are lovely people who own a fine nursery and who want to satisfy their customers. They felt there must be some mix-up. So to the reader who wrote this comment, please telephone Georgia Vines by using their proper telephone number which is  1- 912- 342- 3762 and explain what happened to you.

Gerogia Vines has expanded their business- last year they moved to a larger facility. Their web site is where you can see a photo of Lori who started the business and Travis, her son who is now working there. They also have a new blog.  Besides honoring your order,  I am sure they will answer any and all questions you have about vines.

Dear reader, PLEASE send TheGardenLady another comment letting everyone know that everything worked out well.

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Lori Rubel’s Georgia Vines

TheGardenLady likes to write about nurseries or gardens that sell interesting plants; and if these places can save readers money in this economy, that is an added bonus. One such gardening resource is Georgia Vines What is unique about Georgia Vines is that their emphasis is on selling vines- and many of these vines are very unusual.

The owner of Georgia Vines is Lori Rubel who says that her passion is vines. She said that because she only had an ” urban backyard to work with, I decided many years ago to collect vines because I could grow them vertically and save room.” When Lori moved to Georgia from her home in upstate NY, she discovered “Passiflora- which is something that I could have never grown in upstate NY.” The more vines she got, the more she found were available. ” Lori says that she now has a large collection of about 140 different types of vines. Lori, who loves beauty, became interested in rare and unusual vines as well as other unusual plants. On her website she says “This is my garden of vines, angel trumpets, butterfly plants, and just about everything beautiful and unusual that I am able to find and plant.”

Because all gardeners love to share their passion with others, a couple of years ago Lori was encouraged by her grown sons to set up a website and share the vines and her passion and knowledge of vines with others.

And what makes Lori’s Georgia Vines a place to save money is that she sells many of the vines and plants as seeds but does NOT charge for postage anywhere in the US. (She does have a small international postage fee.) And many of the potted plants have no postage charge.

If you fall in love with any of the rare plants on the Georgia Vines site and want to order them, be sure that the plants will grow in your area (see here).