Aside from the garden, the nursery is a gardener’s favorite place. Walking into a nursery knowing you want to buy some ‘Moonbeam’ coreopsis is easy. But do you want the short, full plant or the tall, thin one? Another is loaded with flowers; it must be the one to take. But the one next to it has many more stems.

Buying plants doesn’t have to be a daunting task. In this video, Jason Powell, owner of Petals from the Past, a nursery in Jemison, Alabama, will help you to separate a good plant from an average one and to know which plants not to even consider putting in your cart.

For more on this topic, see Buy Plants with Confidence.