Where do you buy your seeds and bulbs from???

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Hi all....

I am about to - with great excitement - plant:

1. Lots of bulbs - snowdrops, various daffodils, and a couple of others
2. Wild flower seeds - poppies, forget me nots and a couple of others

in our newly-acquired garden.

Where to you buy yours from??

Thanks

Parker’s is the cheapest and usually ok but sometimes sends the wrong stuff. Peter Nyssen always good but sells out quickly. Sarah Raven very expensive but offers the best varieties (many of which can be sourced elsewhere). Snowdrops are best bought in bulk “in the green” in spring.

I buy tulip and allium bulbs from Sarah Raven, and most of my annual flower seeds too (my in-laws kindly give me a gift voucher every year for my birthday).

I've also had great success with bulbs (and seeds) from Wilco. Grape hyacinths, iris, crocus, and alliums have all done well.

EBay is also really good for interesting seeds, and especially for buying bulbs 'in the green'.

If you have a Lidl nearby they have spring bulbs in at the moment.

This is great - thank you!!! O xx

www.seedaholic.com/

Chiltern seeds have a fascinating catalogue which is a really good learning resource. The main catalogue has no pictures at all, just descriptions and provenance information - but they have also started doing a limited photo catalogue too. Plants of Distinction do interesting new seed varieties.

Bulbs from Sarah Raven (expensive but I'm a sucker for the catalogue - wait til the 20% off offers come through!) Also from Avon Bulbs - I'm biased as I worked for them one packing season, but they are real plant experts, a small family business and important local employer in a part of rural Somerset - so I still buy even though I've long moved away.

Chiltern seeds have a fascinating catalogue which is a really good learning resource. You have to be a bit careful - they can make dull plants look a bit more interesting than they really are! But that applies to any catalogue. They have all sorts of stuff that you can't get anywhere else - one of my most fun buys was a packet of mixed Acer seeds - three different species of snake barked maple, a paper bark one, and various others, some of which are now producing their own flowers and seeds! Yay! - I'm a grandmother!