On 7/12/05 23:41, in article , "Mike Lyle"
wrote:

Rupert wrote:
So is it true that if a *N*ortherner (North of Watford type) buys
summat from the Southerners--then it might have problems surviving?
I ask this question because a reputable Nursery/garden centre in
Cornwall suggested that it would be better for me (a Northerner) to
buy plants locally.
At this stage you might think that they had better things to do
than
deal with small beer but I was talking about substantial business.
[...]

No, that's what I'd expect from a reputable nursery. Compare forestry
catalogues: they'll tell you provenance along with all the age and
undercutting details. Of course it doesn't matter for all plants.

Old gardeners always seemed to think that you shouldn't move plants north -
or not far, anyway. I think there's sense in it. Plants grown down here
don't usually meet the more extreme weather of some parts of the north and
won't have toughened up in the same way. One of the reasons we don't use
heat to force plants is because we want to grow them 'hard' but OTOH,
normally speaking, our weather isn't anything like as severe as it can be in
the north.
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
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