Help with Camellia sasanqua

[jgc8fan]

Anyone if FL/South GA know where I can find "Mine-No-Yuki" sasanquas??? I've got a customer that we did a landscape install for in MARCH!!! We had to go off "her designer's" plan which calls for 5 of these (3 gal). The customer wants the job finally done, but every nursery we've been to in the immediate area has told us they will get them in fall... Well now it's fall, and I still can't find the darn things... I wanna get the job finished as the customer paid for the work 7 months ago, and these 5 plants are all that's holding up the proverbial "DONE" stamp (If we were on Monster House).

We had 3 nurseries tell us they could special order them, but never got any in for us. One said they had them, and would hold them only to arrive the next morning to be told they sold them just before we got there. At this point I don't give a $#!T what cultivator they are as long as it's a white blooming sasanqua... Anybody know where I can get them??? The customer is adamant not to have pink, red, etc... "it'll clash with the house" (we tried to sell her on pink cotton candy, but now I have those around my house... LOL.) I really just wanna find the designer and throttle her. The plan was screwed from the start with the wrong type of plants in the wrong places, and nothing to scale. I just want to get this deal behind me so I can get on with life.

PLEASE HELP!!!

[Scott]

I know where you can dig some up at

[jgc8fan]

I know where you can dig some up at

You know... As funny as that sounds... I have actually been considering the very illegal possibility of waiting a couple more weeks till they start blooming, and driving around until I found some. LOL

I just contacted one of the nurseries that's given us the run around before... See what they say now.

[dg0123]

You might try, http://www.giyp.com/default.asp?cc=GIYP&biz=1&fb=yes
I have found nurseries on that site that is not in our phonebook. Guess it all comes down to the advertising dollar. Good Luck.

[treedoc1]

Camellia sasanqua `Setsugekka`
Camellia sasanqua `White Doves`
Camellia x 'Mason Farm'
Camellia x 'Survivor'
Camellia x 'Winter's Snowman'

All Monrovia varieties that are sasanqua whites.

Every retail garden center around you must have some of these.

[jgc8fan]

Camellia sasanqua `Setsugekka`
Camellia sasanqua `White Doves`
Camellia x 'Mason Farm'
Camellia x 'Survivor'
Camellia x 'Winter's Snowman'

All Monrovia varieties that are sasanqua whites.

Every retail garden center around you must have some of these.

Not a single one... Something's wrong with the places down here... Went back to the nursery that claimed they would have them in fall today... They didn't... My partner started walking out, but I told him I wanted to go in and give them $#!t for lying to me. I did too... Lady said that's all they were getting till spring, and no whites. That was funny, and made up for the wasted trip... Asked her if I was supposed to wait till spring for plants that my customer has already waited 6 months for, and they promised to get in.

I'm going to GA tomorrow for the weekend... Hopefully I can find some up there.

[treedoc1]

It's a little drive to Cairo, Ga. Wight's Nursery (now Monrovia)
Call them and see.

[lclandscapes]

Have you tried Great Hammock Nursery in Ponte Vedra?

Anyone if FL/South GA know where I can find "Mine-No-Yuki" sasanquas??? I've got a customer that we did a landscape install for in MARCH!!! We had to go off "her designer's" plan which calls for 5 of these (3 gal). The customer wants the job finally done, but every nursery we've been to in the immediate area has told us they will get them in fall... Well now it's fall, and I still can't find the darn things... I wanna get the job finished as the customer paid for the work 7 months ago, and these 5 plants are all that's holding up the proverbial "DONE" stamp (If we were on Monster House).

We had 3 nurseries tell us they could special order them, but never got any in for us. One said they had them, and would hold them only to arrive the next morning to be told they sold them just before we got there. At this point I don't give a $#!T what cultivator they are as long as it's a white blooming sasanqua... Anybody know where I can get them??? The customer is adamant not to have pink, red, etc... "it'll clash with the house" (we tried to sell her on pink cotton candy, but now I have those around my house... LOL.) I really just wanna find the designer and throttle her. The plan was screwed from the start with the wrong type of plants in the wrong places, and nothing to scale. I just want to get this deal behind me so I can get on with life.

PLEASE HELP!!!

[jgc8fan]

Sucess...

Couldn't find Mine-no-yuki, but I did manage to find some nice Winter's Snowman at one of the last nurseries I thought to look at (one that never has anything). Glad to finally get this job over with. According to the nursery worker they are the only one's in the area who got white sasanquas (I believe him as I've been to every one in Jax, and every one on US 1 from FL to Athens, GA). According to him most down here aren't growing Mine-no-yuki due to a fungus that's attacking them now... That would explain why it took 6 months of searching, and putting up with BS I was getting from every other nursery in town.

These are probably better for my customer as she wanted something that wouldn't get too big... These are listed as 6'-8' while mine-no-yuki's are listed to getting over 12'. Plus the new growth is red so it'll add color when not in bloom. The customer only cares that the blooms are white so I'm good.

Thanks for the input everyone.