About two years ago I launched RateANursery.com . This is a nursery ratings website for Houston area garden centers. Plants For All Seasons did very well in the ratings in 2009. We were the highest overall rated nursery and had the best service rating. Growers Outlet had the best quality rating and Buchanan's Native Plants had the best selection rating.

This year we were rocking along at #1 in the ratings until mid August. Our ratings plummeted in 2 days. We went from 1st to 6th place. In the Comments Section we had 3 really negative comments that day. What was odd is that we had not had a comment posted about us in over a year and then in one day we had 3 negative posts. Because I am the webmaster I get to see who registers and where they live. In the two days that our ratings plummeted we had 10 new registrations. Only 1 registrar lived near us. All the rest lived 20+ miles away. Mostly in the inner loop of Houston. I can also see who they rated. Generally....they rated my nursery and one other garden center. The other garden center's ratings went way up. I am pretty good at numbers. Their ratings couldn't have gone up that much unless they got perfect scores. My ratings couldn't have gone down that much unless we were rated at the lowest that anyone could be rated. The garden center who sabotaged us is currently way down in the ratings. They only had so many friends, employees or acquaintances that would do their dirty work. Not enough to bring them to the top but enough to bring our ratings down. 

I want to state, for the record, that my nursery has never laundered illegal drug money nor has ever been a front for illegal gambling. Just like Richard Nixon said...."I want to make this perfectly clear".