In article , Tim Tyler writes
Tumbleweed wrote or quoted:

Will be interesting to see how long it takes until they are as large as the
ones you saw. Are they bb's fast growers? I have a particular viburnum
(fantastic scent) that is incredibly slow growing so I'm not surprised when
I see it on sale at about ?20 for a small plant, mine has taken about 10
years to get to 3ft high.

I think viburnums can be a bit different.

Blueberrys are not necessarily /that/ steep. I bought a Blueberry bush
recently - from:

http://www.hedging.co.uk/acatalog/In..._23.html#10553

They have three varieties - for 3.75 UKP (plus postage) each - for a two
foot tall blueberry in my case. Big and cheap - IMO.


Hmm. I bought 4 blueberries (2 each of Herbert and Berkeley, I think)
from there. They were quite small - probably no more than 9" including
the small pots. They looked as if they were a year or two or three old
- but almost bonsaied. One of the varieties has quite a thick (by
comparison) main woody stalk with little bits of growth off it. This
seemed to be very susceptible to white mildew (perhaps it got a bit dry
during posting - certainly, the raspberry canes that came at the same
time did and less than half of them have even started to show any new
growth yet despite being put in raspberry heaven). A quick squirt of
some proprietary unfungal sorted it out - but none of the plants are
very active Certainly *way* short of 2'!). Maybe I got end of season
runts

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regards andyw