Phelps Nursery

I am big on supporting family owned businesses. Phelps is supposedly a nursery that grows their shrubs and trees locally in Madison, OH. They cIaim to constantly stock the freshest plants, etc. Boy was this false, and I’m making it a point to write this review so that consumers are aware and stay away.
My husband and I came here in the spring because we needed some new shrubs/​plants, and we saw ads for Phelps and how it’s a new location and what I mentioned above. It looked legit from outside. Huge lot with big «greenhouses.»
We were not impressed by their inventory. Yes, they seemed to have a lot of variety, BUT the plants were old, NOT fresh as they claimed. Plants have noticeable mildew and fungus growing on them.
We thought we lucked out, but they sold is ninebark coopertinas that were diseased and eventually died after a few weeks. We wasted a lot of money on this place and on buying sprays to keep the plants alive. It was very stressful. (By the way, we already have nine barks at our home and they are healthy and ninebarks are low maintenance shrubs). The ones we bought from Phelps were a headache. I was so scared that the disease would spread to our shrubs, trees, and plants.
I will never recommend phelps to anyone. We would’ve been better off buying shrubs at the home depot because the plants we have gotten from there and quality gardens are happily thriving in our yard.
The workers were not helpful either and tried to keep pushing us to buy their planters. Not impressed.