We originally visited Blodgetts upon returning to Orlando several years ago. Initially, we were impressed by the wide selection of plants, but even more so, we were impressed by the knowledgable helpful staff, who seemed like true experts about gardening.
For a variety of reasons, we did not do much gardening for a period of time, and only recently were able to garden again - we immediately thought of Blodgetts when needing plants & supplies.
Much to our dismay, this nursery is no longer the top-notch place it used to be. While there is still quite a nice selection of plants, the staff we encountered on our last 2 visits did not seem to know very much about gardening at all, and seemed as if they were simply "salesman" - pushing to sell us something as much as possible, without really knowing any significant amount about the merchandise they were selling.
Disappointing that this is no longer as high-quality a nursery as it used to be.
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