Well, don't know about the vendors, but I can help you get rid of the "pages and pages of seeds and orange boxes." To limit your search term so that those pages don't come up, what you do is put a "-" (a minus sign) directly in front of the word you don't want to see in any results, with no spaces between the minus sign and the word.

So, to get rid of "seeds" for example, you just put -seeds at the end of your search. And then you can get rid of the labels also by putting - labels after -seeds in the same search. .

This works for just about any search engine around. It has become nearly universal. The minus sign means "exclude" any search results that include this term.

Here is a link that might be useful: List of other search operators that might be useful

This post was edited by kstrong on Sun, Oct 6, 13 at 14:50

My first thought when I read your post was that if they are selling patented roses that are still commercially available, I would doubt their integrity. Sure, that's a generalization, but to me it is kind of a red flag.

Smiles,
Lyn

Personally I've only dealt with Long ago roses and Riobay. Long ago roses of course is my Favorite. Although Riobay bay sells larger plants some own root some grafted. All plants from both have been healthy, both have answered all my questions very quickly and have made suggestions for plants that would do better in my zone as opposed to the ones I had placed a bid on.
The one other comp. I dealt w/ was the cause of a recent debacle. So I can't honestly pass judgement (yet).
Not sure if this helped
âÂÂ¥Lyna

Thank you for the information about using the minus sign to limit searches.

I agree about the patented roses, although the vendor might be reselling a patented rose he or she had bought elsewhere, which is perfectly legal.

I have not bought from Riobay, I will check their offerings next spring.