Garden centre/plant nurseries

[mitch]

As an avid plantsman I always, where possible, use the independant nurseries and garden centre's for my baskets and pots and I am blessed to have one on my doorstep.

If you haven't yet visited Hopton nurseries do so, Maxine has a wealth of knowledge and a great selection of bedding and basket plants. If your after begonias she sells the best I've ever planted.

Don't expect acres of water features, spa's and the like, it's a big poly tunnel with well raised reasonably priced plants.

 

[MISS T]

I've just been down the road to the small one opposite John Wheeldon, very pricey they wanted £30 for a 2ft apple tree, I went to homebase got one for a tenner that'll grow to 3ft. Will nip out to Hopton at the wkend then, I need to get bedding and hanging flowers.

 

[basil]

I also need bedding........

 

[Gramaisc]

... and hanging?

 

[John Marwood]

...and nursing?

 

[mitch]

I've just been down the road to the small one opposite John Wheeldon, very pricey they wanted £30 for a 2ft apple tree, I went to homebase got one for a tenner that'll grow to 3ft.

I've never had much luck with the grafted fruit trees in fact I've never had any luck, not even a bit of blossom never mind a bit of fruit.

Maxine will not be up to full stockage for a week or two, she's still bringing the majority of the begonias on but she's still got plenty on the shelves.

Be careful of those late frosts, don't be tempted to put your bedding plants in for another couple of weeks it's a costly mistake made often. I have to admire the likes of B&Q and the like, I saw droves of short's and flop flip cladded folk traipsing out of B&Q with armfulls of bedding plants over the sunny Easter weekend and thought to myself that hardly any of these people will have greenhouses, they're going to go home plant them all up, fire up the barbie and wake up in a week or so to several boarders of dead plants and then trip off down to B&Q again and buy another several trays full. Fabulous marketing and great for the profits.