Where do you buy your plants from?

[Holidayshopping]

I have bought a few bits recently from B+Q and then a local nursery, but haven’t found an awful lot of choice-I am looking for things to go in quite a shady area.

Does anyone ever have much success buying online and if so-where from?

I bought plants from here and was happy with them.

The Range
Tesco
Asda
A little shop in town.

I work in a garden center but have never bought plants from there.

Try eBay mostly cheap plus you can find so much more variety. Just had some plug plants delivered this morning handily packaged in a box to fit through the letterbox.

@Sugarhouse I’ve been looking on eBay tonight! What sort of size are the plugs you’ve bought? Do they look healthy?

Suttons are a great website and plentys tips and advice

I've just had a delivery from the Secret Gardening Club. The plants look great, were well packaged and a good size. I have a link that gives us both 20% of if you're interested. I have no links to the company other than being happy with my purchase! www.secretgardeningclub.co.uk/pages/voucher/JTZGBSPB

I have bought from eBay too, some have been good, some not so good. Be careful, if it looks too good to be true its probably seeds from China that I'm sure won't produce anything!

Basic bedding plants I get from morrisons. You can’t beat there two for £3 offer.
Online I have used jparkers and avonbulbs.

If you want something basic like a mop head hydrangea Wilko are doing them for £5. Quite small but they did look to be healthy.

Jersey plants online. Ordered a tray of plants last spring, 70 for a tenner, pot luck what you get.

A tiny little tray of feeble little ‘weeds’ arrived .... I thought perhaps the delivery was staggered and all the rest would arrive next day. Then I realised there were actually 70 of these teeny weeds in the tray.

Thought about binning them and putting it down to experience but DH planted them in pots around the garden and we ended up with the most amazing display of massive begonias which lasted until October.

Will do the same this year when it warms up a bit. -1 tonight!

I made the very very bad mistake of buying plants from Chris Bowers (online company). It is the company from hell. I've never seen such terrible Trustpilot reviews, but didn't think to check in advance.
I've name changed for this, because I'm a little bit scared of them...

So I now buy from our local garden centre. Which is actually very good. And you can see what you're paying for.

Crocus really good and have a guarantee

I buy quite a lot of things Lang’s from Morrison’s but when I want plants that make an instant impact I go to a local garden centre.

Our local plant nursery which is amazing. And Morrisons.

Don’t know where ‘Lang’s ‘ came from!

I usually buy from Crocus, Hayloft, Sarah Raven, ebay.

Yes they look healthy I ordered Wednesday night and they arrived this morning via Royal Mail 48 hour post. They fairly small the actual plant is maybe 4-5 cm ish but most sellers will specify size.I ordered a few rose bushes of eBay the end of last summer which are both doing really well. I would just recommend making sure the seller has a good rating.

RHS for better quality ones, B&Q for one season ones.

Suttons, Thompson & Morgan, Gardening Express online - look for their special offers, you can get big selections of plug plants or mixed bedding plants very cheaply.

Also local garden centre sometimes for "garden ready" plants but they're a lot more expensive. Spent a tenner on 4 plants (annuals) for the window box in March and just got another 18 of the same type online from Suttons for the same price! So far everything I've bought online has been fine.

Our local horticultural society have a sale every April/May, I've had great plants, bedding from them. Check out for one near to you.