"Stephen Wolstenholme" wrote in message
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On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 20:13:59 +0200, mike crowe
wrote:

We stopped buying by mail order from any of these cowboys years ago.

Mail order encourages the marketeer to get rid of any old stock.

Go to your own local nursery and see what you are buying, strike up a
rapport with them and they will look after you.

I disabled and can't go anywhere these days so I have to use on-line
companies. I don't order by mail. If there is no picture I don't buy
it. They aren't all cowboys.

Very true, I have been using Brookside Nurseries for years. They are
a family run business and they send all their plants out by mail. Carriers are
useless up here, some (dead) plug plants can take up to three weeks
to be delivered. Most garden centres are near Inverness (90 mile
round trip) but we do have one good garden centre (The Green
Wellie) which is only 25 miles away. Being a small family run centre,
their stock is limited but most is obtained locally. The quality is
excellent and they can always order plants which they do not stock.

Phil
Northern Highlands of Scotland