I have bought seed from T&M for well over fifty years, starting when I was living in England. Seed was almost always great and the selection was wonderful.
When my wife and I moved to Washington State (zone 8) I started to buy from their New York branch. I had some awful results from there - an order of special geranium plants arrived dry and quite dead, pre-sprouted Chilean Bells (Lapageria) arrived looking as if it had been sprouted about three or four weeks previously. The main root was about four inches long and snapped as soon as I attempted to plant it. Most of the seed I got was okay but rather expensive I thought and the section was not what I had become used to. Then in the Spring I didn't receive my catalogue as usual. Going on line the selection appeared to be minimal and when I phoned to ask about that I was told that when that lot was gone, the doors were going to close. I was also told that they had been sold to the Mississipi Bulb Company so no wonder the quality dropped.
T&M is still in business in England (Thompsonandmorgan.co.uk). There is also a wonderful seed company in England who stock a wonderful selection of really unusual seed. Googling ChilternSeeds should get it, although you might have to append the UK somewhere. I just looked for my catalogues but they are missing for the moment.
